“See what employees are saying.”
Here is a site that everyone should take excitement in. At Glassdoor.com, you share information about your job and employer. Glassdoor is the only site to provide these reviews and ratings for free. All you have to do is sign up and write a review or post your own salary. Don’t worry, it is all anonymous, so no one can get in trouble with their boss. We all know about RateMyProfessors.com, which lets students read and comment on their professors. This gives them an opportunity to pick classes with a better rated professor. Glassdoor has basically the same concept. As a job seeking individual you want to know what you are getting into. Glassdoor takes this a step further and not only provides individuals with real reviews and ratings, but also gives them an idea of how much the salary is in the position they are looking into. You can look up average salaries, how much an employee makes depending on experience, what bonuses are like, and other pay categories.
We did an example search. We searched ‘Google’ under salaries and then clicked on the first result, which is Software Engineer. There are 67 salaries on Glassdoor.com for Google Software Engineer’s in the United States, which means 67 Google Software Engineer’s have contributed to this. Just on this page we discovered the total pay to be $130,793, an average salary of $95,677, their bonuses. Not too bad Google Software Engineer’s! Thereafter we wanted to see how Google’s employees with more experience differed in salary. We picked 10+ years, giving us 6 salaries with an average of $112,067. Alright, enough about salaries. How about some reviews? From the same page we clicked ‘Reviews’. It’s nice how easy it is to navigate through the site. On the ‘Reviews’ page we scrolled down to the review to a Google Software Engineer. You get to see the Pros, Cons, and Advice to Senior Management. This employee wrote, “Best large company for a software engineer,” and gave a 5.0 rating. On the other end of the pendulum, we found an employee stating, “It’s not what it’s cracked up to be.” He concluded with a 1.0 rating. After all this, we felt like we had put ourselves in the shoes of a Google Software Engineer.
Of course, you still have to make your own decisions, but its obvious that Glassdoor is a big help. Glassdoor is a much needed site and is a great way to prepare yourself for your job. Highly recommended.
Read our Interview with Co-Founder Tim Besse.
