I’m working on a story that explores the reliability of reviews on Glassdoor. Has anyone been approached or know of anyone who has been approached about writing a positive review on behalf of the company?
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Submitting a positive review on Glassdoor was a requirement in my new hire checklist. Imagine how much worse the ratings truly are if you strip out the reviews waters forces on new hires.
I’m guessing that GCC contractors (who are happy to have jobs in India) are encouraged to provide reviews and given templates to follow, skirting the fake review label, but certainly not genuine. It’s easier than the company actually implementing employee feedback or changing the culture. “But hey, look at our stock price”
The fake reviewer is probably a group of people from the indian offices, definitely possible they're downvoting over here too
Is the fake reviewer the same person who downvotes every post on here?
No but I know for a FACT there’s a boat load of them since June to try to offset the negative reviews instead of addressing all the feedback. I would LOVE to see proof and have accountability for the fake reviews. Is it possible they are creating throwaway accounts or using bots?
It's unlikely that any normal employee gets approached to write a fake review, that's too obvious. It's far more likely that the GCC teams are writing the fake reviews and probably had permission to do so behind closed doors. No one from Waters will ever admit they are requesting to have fake reviews created but it's blatantly obvious that it's happening. Someone on Glassdoor pointed out almost 60 fake reviews this year alone, that smells like GCC to me
"Are employees or contractors who provide these positive reviews compensated?"
Almost all of them are probably contractors from GCC/InfoSys. You can tell because there is a very poor grasp of written English as well as having no actual information in the review, it's a generic copy paste.
Are employees or contractors who provide these positive reviews compensated?
Yes - it’s a common ask to “try and attract a pipeline of good candidates.” The company knows it has a big problem on its hands, and no idea how to handle it.