What is Glassdoor?

Glassdoor is a website where current and former employees anonymously submit their salary details, provide company review based on multiple criteria

It is very useful for them who want to switch their company and want to make sure about the next company Work culture, Pros, Cons, Work life balance etc. They can find the company review, salaries, and interview question about that company.




History of Glassdoor:

Glassdoor is one of the world’s largest job and recruiting website. Glassdoor operates as a part of Recruit Holding’s growing HR Technology business segment. Headquarter is in Mill Valley, California and founded by Robert Hohman, Rich Barton and Tim Besse in 2007, before its launch in 2008. In 2018, the company was acquired by the Japanese firm, Recruit Holdings, for US$1.2 billion

Main features of Glassdoor:

1. Find a job offer
First main feature of Glassdoor is the job search. You can find interesting offer from worldwide company. If you are a job seeker, you can also be alerted directly on your cell phone about the latest personalized daily offers. You can get the latest HR and recruitment news related to job offers. 

2. Company reviews:
Once you have found an interesting offer, you can discover the company and its history. You can also have the reviews of other people working there. You can have access to the employees’ reviews on the companies they are currently working for. 

3. Salary comparison:
You can also have a quick access to the popular salary researches, the highest paid profession, or also advice for salaries, to know how much you have to pay according to one job. Compare your salary with other people and same jobs in other companies similar to your company. There are also the latest news on salaries.

4. Interviews:
This section has very useful advice for job interviews. Employees of a given company can share their interview experience before being hired, so that candidates can be prepared. There is also a kind of ranking if the most difficult interviews, the most popular interviews, and advice for interviews. There is as well a news section, with for example articles on the most popular questions asked in interviews.

Company rating Website:

Glassdoor launched its company rating website in June 2008, where sites works as “collects company reviews and real salaries from employees of large companies and displays them anonymously for all members to see” The sites also allow the posting of office photographs and other company-relevant media.

Key Stats:

67m unique monthly visitors	11m job listings
3.4 Average company rating	88% Search and/or apply to job
49m Reviews, salaries & insight	900k Employers
88% Hiring managers view informed candidates as quality candidates	95% Job seekers want to be informed about all aspects of a job before accepting
30% Greater retention rate among hires who use Glassdoor	74% Employees are “OK” or “Satisfied” at work