Robert Hohman

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Bob Hohman is the CEO of Glassdoor.com

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Glassdoor Marks 3 Years With 1 Million Members Strong

Posted by • June 10th, 2011 • one

This week we celebrate Glassdoor’s 3rd anniversary. We launched our beta version on June 11, 2008 and, at that time, our site held approximately 3,000 company reviews and salary reports for 250 companies that were mostly tech companies based in the United States.

Today, we have more than one million members who have contributed information on 120,000 companies around the globe which now accounts for 1.7 million company reviews, interview questions, salary reports, workplace photos and CEO ratings.

Our community has grown, our business has grown and we have grown as an employer here in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we only expect…

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Glassdoor Hits An Important Milestone: Secures $12 Million In Series C Funding

Posted by • February 10th, 2011 • one

I’m excited to report that Glassdoor has secured $12 million in Series C funding, led by Battery Ventures with participation from our existing investors Benchmark Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures

It’s been just two and a half years since we launched in June 2008 and it’s extremely gratifying to have such respected investors see the value and opportunity in our company we certainly know is there. The greatest reward, however, is the rising number of users who get value out of the data we collect from people around the world.

When we first launched our free “give-to-get” model, there was skepticism if it could really work – would people be compelled to anonymously share such private details? In short, YES

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Glassdoor Turns Two!

Posted by • June 11th, 2010 • more

Today’s our birthday of sorts and we’re celebrating at Glassdoor. It’s been two years since we first debuted our beta and we’ve been in full throttle ever since.

Our timing couldn’t have been better. Over the past two years the labor market has been pummeled with the economy and people around the world need jobs and company information more than ever. We’re helping with that…with the help of our community and members around the globe.

I’d like to thank…

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A Note From Glassdoor.com CEO Robert Hohman…

Posted by • December 15th, 2009 • more

At Glassdoor, we are very proud to unveil the Employees’ Choice Awards for Top 50 Best Places to Work in 2010. We are excited to see that our collective commitment to transparency in the workplace is catching on for employees, jobseekers and employers.

As reviews flow into the Glassdoor database, we are witnessing a new paradigm that offers individuals the information they need to make more informed decisions about their careers. With the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards, we honor those employers who have faced one of the toughest years in business without losing site of their employees.  Equally important, we honor the hundreds of thousands who have participated in our surveys and contributed reviews to help others gain important insights, and the millions that have armed themselves with these insider views to advance their careers.

I offer my sincerest congratulations to the winners of this year’s awards and wish everyone happy holidays and much success in the New Year!  If you have not yet done so, please complete your own survey and company review so we can continue to share this information globally.

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Be All That You Can Be

Posted by • February 24th, 2009 • one
Army Letter

I just received a very official-looking envelope from the Department of the Army, 101 Army Pentagon, Washington DC. I have to say that I’ve received many letters in my life, but never from the Pentagon. I looked at AJ sideways and wondered aloud if I missed an announcement re-instating the draft. Then I remembered I’m way too old to get drafted. So I opened the letter.

It was a thank you letter. From the army. I had almost forgotten, they were voted #43 on our Employees’ Choice Best Places to Work list. I remember being extremely impressed and this letter reminded me why:

As I scan through the more than 86 reviews from army personnel on Glassdoor, the statement ‘Our Soldiers, Civilians, and Families make great sacrifices to serve our Nation and defend our freedom’  comes to life for me. The reviews range from Special Forces Seargent to Army Captain to Security Manager and everything in between. The reviews remind me that these folks have given their everything for us, putting themselves into harm’s way and suffering separation from their loved ones on 18-month rotating deployments.  One Army Officer wrote about these downsides:

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Employees’ Choice Unveiled: Glassdoor Announces Top Best Places to Work

Posted by • December 29th, 2008 • more

Since launching early this year, nearly 75,000 employees have come to Glassdoor to anonymously contribute salary information and share opinions about their company’s work environment and rate their overall satisfaction. We decided to tabulate the results and see who rated highest… and lowest. We are proud to announce the ultimate Employees’ Choice Awards for Workplaces in our first annual Best Places to Work Top 50¹ list.

Congratulations to General Mills, which topped the list of companies rated by their employees with a 4.5 company rating (on a 5-point scale) while giving General Mills CEO Ken Powell a 96% approval rating. It’s not hard to see why when looking at reviews². One employee writes “I’m proud to work for GMI! They are good community partners, they genuinely care about diversity, and they are well respected as a company. They are consistently ranked among the best companies to work for and their pay/benefits are competitive. The headquarters…is rather impressive as well boasting an impressive cafeteria, health facility…You could probably live on campus if you wanted to. These amenities go a long way into making the real life more manageable so that you can focus on performing well at your job.”

Another General Mills ...

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Advice for the new Chief Executive at Yahoo! from Glassdoor

Posted by • November 18th, 2008 • more

Yahoo stock price is up today given the news that CEO Jerry Yang is stepping down. At times like these, not only can we provide employees and job seekers insights that encourage more informed career moves, but we can also offer a new CEO tips on what is working and what is not from an employee perspective. As the Yahoo Board works today to find a replacement for Yang, we’ve culled employee reviews to give the new CEO, whoever it may be, a unique overview of internal company operations.

So new CEO, here’s your chance – listen close to the Yahoo Reviews by your soon to be employees:

Yahoo Business Development Manager in Sunnyvale, CA

“Big layoffs to reduce expenses. Figure out what Yahoo stands for – no one seems to know (Google = search, Microsoft = software, Yahoo = ??? email, gossip news???, large audience??). When I was there, Marketing couldn’t come up w/ a coherent message b/c no one could figure out what defines Yahoo. A bunch of lame marketing at that time – FUSE acronym, TV commercials w/ people carrying around placards w/ URLs on them, etc”

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Glassdoor Secures $6.5 Million in Series B Funding

Posted by • October 28th, 2008 • more

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 transparency to the employment space and helping people make better decisions about their work.

With this round, I’m happy to announce that Jim White, managing director, Sutter Hill Ventures, will join the Glassdoor board of directors. Jim has a proven track record of successful collaborations with leading business and consumer-facing companies, including Shutterfly.com, Fix.com, Farecast and Infinera, and his experience will be a valued asset to our board. He’s also great guy and I’m looking forward to working with him.

Since we launched our public beta in June, the site’s “employee generated content,” has grown nearly 40-fold to more than 115,000 contributions for 14,000 companies across a wide section of global industries. Immediately following the public debut, we received contributions from employees around the globe, prompting us to accelerate the community’s international capabilities in August. As result, Glassdoor ...

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HP Restructures, Employees See Pink

Posted by • September 16th, 2008 • more

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 “the largest acquisition by value in the IT services sector.” HP stock dropped 3.49% at the closing bell Monday.

Consolidation of any size is tough on employees but when the companies are the size and scope of these two, the effects are generally felt far and wide as evidenced by the estimated size of layoffs. The implications for morale impact are high, especially saddled with the already low ratings EDS and HP have as independent companies. EDS CEO Ron Rittenmeyer has been among the lowest rated CEOs on Glassdoor.com since our launch with just 14% approval rating (more than 65% disapprove) While Mark Hurd has a higher percentage of employees that approve of his performance at 44%, the low company ratings are near neck and neck — with EDS at 2.6 and HP at 2.8.

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Given ‘em something to talk about…

Posted by • September 8th, 2008 • zero

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 available. We feel this information is extremely powerful and we want people to use Glassdoor’s data to have more productive and informed conversations with their managers.

We know these conversations are starting to happen at work through user feedback, but I’m also delighted the subject and debate of salary transparency is occurring within the international media. A recent New York Times article by Lisa Belkin discussed the benefits and potential pitfalls of this level of transparency (note: at Glassdoor we don’t think there are any pitfalls). Yesterday, Lisa was on NBC’s TODAY show (see Salary Transparency Secrets) discussing some of her findings and Glassdoor.com. Earlier in the week, CNBC’s Brooke Sopelsa took a look at the implications and even went so far as to encourage people to contribute to the site. In Kiplinger’s September issue, Jessica Anderson shows readers how to get ...

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