It is anonymous. 
 I think you should focus more on keeping out facts from your story which could be used to personally identify you. Something like a specific fight you had with your manager. If your manager reads that review he will be able to guess it's you. 
 So make your story as generic as possible while keeping the essence of the review intact

Software Developer

Btw kudos to you for caring to do such a thing.

But glassdoor really matters because candidates look at glassdoor. The hr team looks at glassdoor instead of exit interview documents. I've been in a meeting in which we were just discussing a glassdoor review, like no feedback has ever been discussed before

Product Manager

It is anonymous and can’t be tracked back. Have seen things from the admin side :)

Recruiter

Senior Consultant

I want to post a honest review but I don't want my current employer to find out about it. Is glassdoor really a safe place or can it be traced back to me?

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Is glassdoor really anonymous?

Is glassdoor really anonymous?- Grapevine

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.

PSA: Do not join company based on too good Glassdoor rating

Glassdoor really isn’t a trustworthy platform. Think of it in this way, not many people would post good reviews about anything, be it a product, a service, or a company. Always check the negative reviews, understand whether they sound legit (the legit ones are usually well explained), and speak to ex employees of that organisation/team.  
  
 Also, most good reviews are fake and written by the HR Team. Two of my previous employers used to do it.

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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?

Glassdoor reviews authenticity and choosing a good 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?

Glassdoor Reviews : Trustworthy?

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)

Grapevine Verified Inside Scoops

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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.

Can companies delete and manipulate Glassdoor reviews?

Founder

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?

What would you do if someone from your alma mater reaches out to you for your company review?

Data Scientist

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

Don't trust Glassdoor

Glassdoor is owned by Indeed and you can pay a yearly fees to ensure things are right.

Are glassdoor reviews removed by companies when they are on hiring spree?

I’ll go first.

To me, it’s all about access. 
Access to authentic ideas.

The best search result you get on Google is high SEO but low authenticity. On LinkedIn, there are so many people but everyone is shilling a course or 1:1 resume reviews. 

Mostly it has become a place which started as vanity signalling 

Like
( I have started a new role…, I have been accepted at …, I have received offers from F, A, N and G and I’m joining G.)  

And now people pushing mindless content with “Agree?” or “Comment Interested”.

Somehow, everyone is truly inauthentic to please a wider audience and say the exact same generic gyaan to maximise engagement.

For now, Grapevine is where people are genuinely themselves and I get to hear interesting things that you get to hear near the coffee machine.

Kinda feels like we’re all a big community where we all contribute and learn new things about the professional landscape around us.

Godspeed Grapevine. 🚀

Hola Grapeviners! I would love to know why are you on the platform?

People are being forced to work on weekends in the name of "escalations". And instead of it being a request, it is an indirect threat. We are just mere freshers and do not know how to deal with this. How do we navigate this?

Thoughts on being forced to work on weekends?

Data engineer

Note that we barely have any data protection and privacy laws, so they might not act quickly or act in Indian requests. Scrub your profile with a name change or delete it.

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