It sounds to me like Glassdoor doesn't understand their own product.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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What a stupid decision. I don't know how anyone thought this was a good idea unless they intentionally killed their own product for short-term gain. It's gotta be that. Because that's so much of modern capitalism. See Boeing's strategy.
Account data deletion request page: https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US
Please note that withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Wtf does that last bit mean? Also, are there alternatives, that was a good resource.
Sounds like doublespeak to me. "we will grant your request except for where we won't, because of reasons affecting x y and z, but not condition a"
No idea.
I just went in there to make a new account, and they want real name and salary before you can do much. (I work for a public university, so my salary is public record, but even so I just quit out. Too invasive.)
Every corporation is destined to turn into some kind of deadbeat dad. They show up 8 years later because you find out they’ve been using your social security number to buy crypto.
Really the only outcome when, in both cases, all they care about is money.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
(Ars will only refer to Monica by her first name so that she can speak freely about her experience using Glassdoor to review employers.)
Although it's common for many online users to link services at sign-up to Facebook or Gmail accounts to verify identity and streamline logins, for years, Glassdoor has notably allowed users to sign up for its service anonymously.
The EFF regularly defends Glassdoor users from being unmasked by retaliating employers.
She decided to go through with a data erasure request, which Glassdoor estimated could take up to 30 days.
In the meantime, her name remained on her profile, where it wasn't publicly available to employers but it could be used to link her to job reviews if Glassdoor introduced a bug in an update or data was ever breached, she feared.
"No one has the ability to see your user profile and the contents within it, meaning no one, including your employer, will be able to see your details," Glassdoor's employee wrote.
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