About Us
What is Glassdoor.com?
Glassdoor.com is a career and workplace community where anyone can find and anonymously share real-time reviews, ratings and salary details about specific jobs for specific employers — all for free. What sets us apart is that all our information comes from the people who know these companies best — employees. In the spirit of community, we ask our users to share with each other. That is, before you can access all of the information shared by others in the Glassdoor community, we first ask that you post an anonymous review or salary of your own. By working together to offer an inside look at companies, we can open access and bring greater transparency to information in one of the most important parts of our lives — our work.
How did we get here?
It was the summer of 2007, and Glassdoor.com co-founder Robert Hohman was busy taking time off after having left his position as president of Hotwire.com. His long-time friend Rich Barton called up with an interesting question:
“What would happen if someone left the unedited employee survey for the whole company on the printer and it got posted to the Web?”
The two had previously worked together at Microsoft and then Expedia, which Rich founded in 1994. Expedia ultimately transformed travel by opening up information once available only to travel agents and insiders. Rich then went on to transform real estate with the launch of Zillow.com, allowing anyone to find and research home values from their personal computer.
Robert and Rich contemplated why it's so difficult to find helpful information about jobs and workplaces. Robert called on good friend Tim Besse and they expanded the survey concept to include salary details down to the job level and CEO approval ratings, just like politician approval ratings. And thus, Glassdoor was born to deliver new transparency to an incredibly important part of our lives — our work.
What Makes Us Different?
Glassdoor.com is the only site that provides a complete, real-time, inside look at what it's really like to work at a company — ratings, reviews, confidence in senior leadership, and salaries — for free. Although we're just getting started, Glassdoor is already providing what we think is very compelling information, including:
- Detailed company reviews. See what employees on the inside really think with reviews that hit on the good, the bad, and a lot more in between. We encourage constructive feedback in our company reviews and ask respondents to provide “pros” and “cons”, along with “advice to senior management.”
- Employee ratings on workplace factors and leadership. We know people have different motivators for work, so we ask users to rate a range of workplace factors (work-life balance, career opportunities, communication, compensation and benefits, morale, recognition and feedback, senior leadership, fairness and respect). In addition, we also collect & calculate a real-time CEO approval percentage to provide a pulse of how employees think the CEO is doing at any given time.
- Real-time salary/compensation details by title and company. We don't roll-up our salary information by job category or by industry like many sites and sources. You can see details on salary, bonuses, commissions and more for titles within companies that you'll immediately recognize. See exactly what a Software Engineer at Google or a QA Engineer at eBay makes. With information posted everyday, users can be sure they're seeing the latest.
- It's all FREE. The only cost to access all this information on Glassdoor is to post an anonymous review or salary of your own. We're using this “give to get” model to get started, and since it will only take a few minutes to complete and get access to what's behind Glassdoor we hope you'll give it a try.
Why Glassdoor?
We were hoping the name was obvious, but just in case it needs some explanation — Glassdoor was selected because we're helping people look inside a company, through the closed doors and office walls to get better insight into jobs and workplaces.
