Is glassdoor really anonymous?

I don’t know who needs to hear it, but do not blindly trust good glassdoor/ambitionbox/others ratings. In this bad market every company is working well below what their rating portrays. Now it could be 5/5 in one team but 2/5 in another in general sense. However, now the top to bottom trickle of pressure, politics and such is ensuing. You might think you’re seeing good people in ur next job, reviews are mostly good, work/role looks fine and jump into the company - only to realise that soon good people are being removed or they’re moving. See if u are not able to get honest feedback from someone in the company or ur new team before u join - be prepared for harsher reality. Like Swiggy was really good 1 year back or more but no longer. So it’s in ur best interest to get the current ground reality before joining somewhere in this economic condition.

Hey guys I wanted to ask how authentic are reviews which are posted on glassdoor about a company. Its getting very hard for me to choose a company I am getting some interview calls but when I look up the company on glassdoor, some reviews are quite shitty and are telling people to stay away from the company. I know that It depends on team to team, but then how do you decide to join the company, reviews are the only thing we have to judge. Moreover, even if the reviews are good, how do you know they are legit because there are many PR companies at work, posting fake reviews are nothing but childs play. How do you guys decide to join a company?

What do you guys think about reviews on glassdoor - I feel positive 5 star reviews- HR has deliberately asked folks to do it Negative 1 star reviews - the employee had some grudge against someone or maybe their own performance could be poor as well. How seriously should you consider these reviews before you join any org?

Id love to see Grapevine create a catalogue of Grapevine approved verified anonymous accounts of detailed employee accounts of how good or terrible a company is. Think The Ken but filled with employee reports. But the style of writing leaning on the casual office gossip side. And the content saved in an archive and searchable. The biggest problem of course would be getting people to verify their identity to a Grapevine mod or writer may be tough. Me personally, I’d love to talk to some writer about my experience at my previous businesses. So many scoops and insane stories! (I dislike Glassdoor for the HRs infiltrating and BSing everyone)

I get a weekly digest of employee reviews for my company, and very often I've observed that the negative ones are deleted(clicking on the 'read more' section gets me to an error page). Apart from this, slice is actively putting up fake one-line reviews to save their sinking reputation. Highly unethical on part of slice. I wonder how Glassdoor is even allowing this.

So our company is going for campus placements and people from my alma mater have been reaching out to me on Linkedin asking about the work culture and review in general. Personally, I wouldn't advise someone to join the company. I want to let them know about the actual scenario (which is bad) but also I don't want it written for obvious reasons. I don't know them personally, so, can't call them and say. How to handle this moral dilemma?

So I received an offer from a company and Glassdoor reviews for that was around 4.3 which is too good to be true. I talked to some ex-employees of that company and they told me earlier it used to be around 1.7/1.8. The company gave money to Glassdoor to remove these reviews. I thought Glassdoor could be generally trusted, I guess there is some potential in this market