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The risk is not only retaliation by lower rated companies.

It may make users virtually unemployable if HR starts using Glassdoor as a database of publicly critical people. Given the choice between engineer 1 who never posted anything bad against a company, and engineer 2 who posted critical comments, who would you hire?

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Agreed, but my point was that those that are lowest rated will likely have the worst cultures, and so would be *most likely* to retaliate. A company with a good culture would in theory be more likely to take any constructive feedback on board.

Being surrounded by "yes" people can only get you so far.

Although it probably gets you further than the opposite extreme where everyone disagrees all the time.

Personally having such info (critical reviews on previous employers) for a candidate, would be close to already having their answer for "Tell me about a time you had a challenge/problem/conflict at work" type of interview questions.

It’s more dangerous than that. Even “good” companies use third party data and HR services to rank and disqualify applicants. If one of those services uses Glassdoor reviews as a signal even “good” employers could be unintentionally discriminating against applicants based on Glassdoor history.

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