Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Tim Anderson
With everything that’s happening in the world of financial services, it’s becoming hard for us at Glassdoor to sit on the sidelines. So after reading Sunday’s New York Times article chronicling the crisis at AIG, I thought I’d take a look at what the AIG employees have been saying on Glassdoor.
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It wasn’t hard for [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2008 by Tim Anderson
“What happens to a company if somebody takes a boss away? I will answer your question with a question. It’s like what happens to a chicken when you take its head away. It dies unless you find a new head. I need to find which one of these people has the skills to be a [...]
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Posted on September 24th, 2008 by Tim Besse
As huge fans of NBC’s The Office, we’re anxiously awaiting this season’s premiere. Call us geeks but we thought it might be fun to see what the self-proclaimed “World’s Best Boss” and the rest of his fictional Scranton-based team would earn if Dunder Mifflin existed in the real world.
Here’s how they’d stack up according [...]
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Posted on September 18th, 2008 by Tim Anderson
Last month, we posted on the CEOs with the lowest approval ratings following oustings of the CEOs of Alcatel-Lucent and AMD. Recently, WaMu CEO Kelly Killinger, who has been one of Glassdoor.com’s lowest rated CEOs since launch, was given his walking papers. While only 10% of employees said they approved of Killinger, three out of [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Robert Hohman
On Monday, HP made headlines when it publically announced that the company decided to cut more than 24, 600 jobs over the next three years – most of which are expected to occur within United States. The move was a result of the recent acquisition of Texas-headquartered EDS which according to the Business Journal marked [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Tim Anderson
We’re proud to announce this month’s review comes from a Hewlett Packard employee who works out of the Boise, Idaho office. As we took a look through our most recent reviews voted helpful by our community, this one caught our eye…not because it was filled with glowing praise for Hewlett Packard, but because it [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Robert Hohman
It’s been just about 3 months since Glassdoor.com first launched and we’ve been growing at a terrific pace – especially since we began showing salaries in currencies for more than 100 countries.
One of our objectives in launching Glassdoor was to provide employees and job seekers with more information about jobs, salaries and workplaces than previously [...]
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Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Tim Besse
Recently a friend asked me if I knew someone who could help them fix their laptop. Immediately what popped into my head were all of the Apple Store “Mac Geniuses” and Best Buy “Geek Squad Central Intelligence Agents” that have been posting reviews and salaries on Glassdoor. What are “Geek Squad Agents” and “Geniuses”? Well, [...]
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