Glassdoor is the most-consulted employer review platform in the English-speaking world. Reviews are anonymous, employers can respond, and the data extends to salary reports, interview experiences and CEO approval ratings. It is also commercially complicated: employers pay for branding and recruitment features, and the line between "review platform" and "employer-marketing channel" is, by design, a soft one.
Anyone with an account can leave an anonymous review of an employer they currently or previously worked for. Reviews include overall rating, recommend / not recommend, CEO approval, pros, cons and advice to management. Salary, benefits, and interview-experience reports are separate but linked features.
Glassdoor's "Give to Get" model means access to other people's reviews is gated by contributing your own — which both increases the volume of content and shapes who contributes.
Employers can claim a profile, respond to reviews, and pay for "Enhanced" branding (cover photos, "why work for us" content, employee testimonials, sponsored job posts). They cannot, under Glassdoor's published rules, pay to remove reviews. They can flag reviews that break the rules.
Glassdoor is the platform on which a single "free coffee on Wednesdays" can apparently make up for a working week that was, by all written accounts, structured around a slightly haunted spreadsheet. It is also the platform where every CEO in technology is, simultaneously, a visionary leader and "a difficult character to read in meetings". The truth is usually located somewhere in between, in the cons section, in the third paragraph, just above the bit about parking.
Glassdoor is genuinely useful for jobseekers, particularly for understanding management style, interview process, day-to-day culture and the gap between the company's external brand and its internal one. The right reading habit is to read 20–30 reviews across recent quarters, weight the most detailed ones, and treat the headline number as the least informative number on the page.
Yes — to other users. Glassdoor itself holds account-level information and moderates against its policies.
Only when they break Glassdoor's community guidelines. Paid features do not include removal rights.
Glassdoor's model where a user contributes their own review (or salary data) to unlock full access to others' content.
It is self-reported. Useful as a directional indicator, particularly with large sample sizes; less reliable for niche roles.
Glassdoor is the older, more review-centric product. Indeed Company Reviews is built into Indeed's job-search ecosystem and skews toward recent applicants and current employees.