Many companies are able to purchase previous employment salary data, which I believe Equifax sells directly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753
Here is a great read about the tools companies have to suppress your wage for anyone who wants to be a little angry: https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/acquiring-option-impact-and-...
> At Pave, we spent the last two years building out a suite of 40+ integrations with HRIS, payroll, and equity management systems that connect directly with the source of truth for compensation data. We are thrilled to bring this technology to the Option Impact customer base and ensure that our combined customers will never have to fill out a manual survey again while gaining access to a persistent real-time network of compensation data.
[pdf] https://advisor.morganstanley.com/the-hamilton-retirement-pl...
> Option Impact is free to eligible and participating companies through our give-to-get model.
So if I understand correctly, almost all of our employers are providing our real time compensation data to an entity that then allows all other participant companies to graph and query.
I find it outrageous that my employer could tell my compensation data to other companies, while simultaneously we live in a culture of "we shouldn't talk about compensation."
So basically everyone's salary from two years back is public information. It is often used by the press to check how much the richest people pay in taxes (or rather how badly they contribute by dodging taxes).
I've never heard of employers using it to check candidates' salaries, though. They usually just ask as part of the interview process.
As a Scandinavian employer, I can tell you that the tax records are very useful. Especially for higher-end roles it is very nice being able to check how much people have been earning from a reliable data source. I'm pretty sure many are using that a lot.
See “What the tax lists contain?” at https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/forms/search-the-tax-lists/
> we live in a culture of "we shouldn't talk about compensation."
Yeah especially now that the cat is out of the bag, but restricted to employers. Such a data set should absolutely be made available to workers. Information symmetry is critical for a functioning market. And capitalists love markets, right?
The same practice is true of yelp and tripadvisor reviews.
They are cyber-racketeers.
It may make users virtually unemployable if HR starts using Glassdoor as a database of publicly critical people. Given the choice between engineer 1 who never posted anything bad against a company, and engineer 2 who posted critical comments, who would you hire?
I couldn’t read the article when rejecting the cookies (or it took very long) so maybe the answer is in there…
> One user, who goes by Monica, wrote in a post on her personal blog that Glassdoor added her name and the city where she lives to her Glassdoor profile following an email exchange with Glassdoor customer support, despite having never provided her name during the sign-up process some years earlier. Monica, whose last name we’re not publishing to protect her privacy, accused Glassdoor of getting her full name from the email she sent to customer support, which she says they added to her Glassdoor profile.
I have no idea if it's still that anonymous.
If you log in first you can navigate directly to this URL without answering any questions: https://www.glassdoor.com/member/profile/accountSettings which will allow you to close your account.
You then need to request they delete your data which can be done at https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US
Also, when I hit delete my personal data and hit the captcha, nothing happens.
Garbage company all around.
I don’t trust any review sites these days, especially star ratings. At most I’ll skim through and look for what appears to be authentic reviews with quirky writing, shitty photos and such. However, that’s going away soon too, thanks to AI.
Glassdoor added real names to supposedly anonymous profiles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777752 - March 2024 (23 comments)
Glassdoor is now adding real names to user profiles without consent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39769166 - March 2024 (40 comments)
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39761176 - March 2024 (31 comments)
Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39705788 - March 2024 (310 comments)
Glassdoor seems like a complete scam to me.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39705788
>One user, who goes by Monica, wrote in a post on her personal blog that Glassdoor added her name and the city where she lives to her Glassdoor profile following an email exchange with Glassdoor customer support, despite having never provided her name during the sign-up process some years earlier
Wait, what.
This is just grotesque and unethical. You do NOT go around fixing other people's profiles. You do NOT edit other people's posts. This is a huge breach of trust for any platform that handles user inputted information.
