Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Robert Hohman
As you may have seen already, we announced today that we have secured $6.5 million in Series B funding, led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from our existing investor Benchmark Capital.
The past few months have been a whirlwind, and Glassdoor.com has experienced significant growth. Our new investors share our vision of providing greater [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Tim Anderson
While it remains to be seen whether or not the bailout bill will curb top executive salaries and payouts, the topic of CEO compensation has always been the subject of controversy and gossip. In particular, the debate over severance packages circulates around what is fair and whether the executive should really be paid for [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Tim Anderson
We spend a lot of time here at Glassdoor thinking about transparency – how do we use it to help everyone make better career decisions?
We’ve been working on solving that fundamental question for awhile now, and to be honest - before we launched we weren’t really sure how our hard work would be received. [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 16th, 2008 by Tim Anderson
Rumors are swirling around Yahoo! - is it going to be an AOL merger or a Microsoft buyout? It’s not surprising – rumors and speculation have become a favorite past-time when it comes to Yahoo! Everyone loves to pile on, but as a former Yahoo! employee – it’s getting harder and harder to [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Tim Besse
It goes without saying that there is a lot riding on the upcoming presidential election, so for a little while longer, there will be no escaping the endless barrage of politics. But what about escaping politics of a different kind, the kind that are not tied to the election cycle but affect you just the [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
Posted on October 14th, 2008 by Tim Anderson
We’ve been very busy at Glassdoor. Between adding new features, updating our CEO watch list, and reaching a Glassdoor milestone of 100k approved reviews and salaries – we have finally selected our “Review of the Month” winner for September. In case you aren’t familiar, each month we spotlight one Glassdoor employee review and [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Tim Anderson
It’s been awhile since we’ve done a product update (we’ve been caught up blogging about some of the economic news), but this week we pushed out a few product updates and I wanted to take this opportunity to give everyone the latest from the team.
About a week ago we achieved a major Glassdoor milestone – [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 7th, 2008 by Tim Anderson
So the economy is tanking and there’s no shortage of bad news out there, but for today we thought we’d take a break from talking about financial services to talk about a local high-tech favorite – eBay.
Yesterday, John Donahoe, the new CEO of eBay, announced he would be “streamlining” – otherwise known as laying off [...]
Filed under: CEO Watch List | 5 Comments »
Posted on October 5th, 2008 by Ron Lussier
Apple recently took a bruising in the blogosphere over its policy of requiring all iPhone developers to agree to a strict NDA (non-disclosure agreement). Developers were forbidden from talking about their development of iPhone applications and even from saying publicly that their application had been rejected from the iPhone App Store.
Now, we developers (I’m a [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
