Glassdoor.com - Not Just for the Americans

Over the past week we’ve seen incredible interest from users outside of the United States, with more than 40% of this week’s site traffic coming from our international users.  This response and all the feedback we have received from across the world has been overwhelmingly positive, so we wanted to say thanks – merci – [...]

We’re Going Global

… and we’re doing it with a few other salary improvements that members have been asking for since our launch in June. Now on Glassdoor you can see salary and total pay for any job at a company on one page, and more importantly you can filter by experience and location (with salaries shown [...]

Where Happy People Go to Work…

Apparently the energy and utilities sector is the place to be, based on the top 10 list on Glassdoor.com. According to 53,000+ reviews we have gathered in just two months since we launched, more 700 employees in this sector at companies like GE Energy in Atlanta, Georgia and Consumers Energy in Jackson, Michigan are proud [...]

It’s Not Too Early to Start Planning Your 2009 Pay Strategies

In a recent article for The Career Journal in the Wall Street Journal, Sarah Needleman writes about planned compensation increases for 2009 based on the research of many employment consulting firms like Mercer consulting and Watson Wyatt Wordwide.
Overall, the average raise for 2009 is expected to be 3.7% — just slightly below 2008, which was [...]

Moving…Start-Up Style

I don’t think anyone likes to move.  Packing, unpacking, getting everything set-up just right – it takes forever, and it can be back-breaking work.  But when an office upstairs opened up, I didn’t take much to sell us that it was going to be worth the move.  We were in a relatively [...]

Even Students Deserve an Inside Look

I’ve seen a lot of interest from students who want to check out our reviews and salaries – and why wouldn’t you?!   If you’re a student, our “employee generated content” offers you an inside look at some of the largest, most reputable companies in the world – and we’ll cover just about every company [...]

CEO Approval Ratings Forecast Job Tenure

Could Glassdoor’s CEO approval ratings be an indicator of CEO job security? Magic eight ball says: Signs point to yes - but only time will truly tell. No matter what analogy you use, Glassdoor shows promise as an indicator for CEO longevity based on employee approval ratings.
Case in point: AMD and Alcatel Lucent. The recently [...]

Bush Should Consider Lowering Salary to Boost Approval Ratings

We were catching up on this week’s news…well, the news according to US Weekly. US Weekly reported the whopping salaries of top rated celebrities based on an annual survey in this week’s TV Guide.
For kicks and a couple good laughs, we wanted to compare the salaries of top rated corporate CEOs to the salaries of [...]

Workplace Ailments and Ways to Avoid the Pitfalls

Work matters – from our compensation that controls our personal finances to our job satisfaction that can ultimately affect our mental and physical health or even non-work relationships. We’ve always known that our work was an important part of our lives (that’s why we launched Glassdoor.com), but a recent article in the Indianapolis Star [...]

July’s Review of the Month

Whenever I mention to people that I work at Glassdoor, there are a few questions that always come up:

How do you know these people actually work at the company?
Do people really care enough to write about their work?

Well… I think in its own way our “Review of the Month” answers both these questions. This [...]