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Honestly, the only place where you can currently get genuine company reviews today is Blind, if you can stomach the trolling. The so-called 'kool-aid drinkers' or 'hr puppets' are called out (often humorously) all the time.

For Glassdoor, I am not surprised, this is not news. I interviewed at an awful company once which had stellar - I mean actually straight-A's 'nothing wrong here, we're the best, if God came down from heaven and founded a company, this would be it' reviews. Found out from an ex-employee after they've been acquired by the company I worked at that they were pestered daily to write positive reviews.



What is Blind? Went to blind.com and didn't seem to be what you were referring to.


Say goodbye to the rest of your day:

https://www.teamblind.com/articles/Topics


Just took a brief look, and it all looked like whining and trolling. Am I missing something?


Agree. I was "invited" to Blind and every thread or comment were useless, antagonistic personal attacks, complaining, etc. It was very immature.


I got the same impression. Not to mention ill-informed in many cases...


They want to offer anonymous communication but still demand to know my employer and personal identity. How about no?


They had a leak recently, I wouldn't trust them with your work email...


The rule is to not trust any online entity ever. That's just common sense. So everything you write online anonymously should be filtered by the 'What would I feel if this text will appear next to my name and my company name in the New York Times tomorrow morning' filter.


I find Blind to be a total garbagefire and den of negativity, which all anonymous social networks trend to.




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