Don't trust Glassdoor

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.

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.

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?

Are these real reviews or fake reviews / managed reviews ?? I don't believe any company could be so good for ~80/90% of folks working there , and that none of the "bad hires"/ ex-employees decide to go on a rant on Glassdoor against the company ...

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?

Thoughts on the Grapevine app so far. Would you invest in Grapevine if you had the opportunity? Do you think there is potential?