I have an interview set up for this company tomorrow and they have quite poor reviews on glassdoor (people not being reimbursed for expenses, bullying, hostile HR, managers being business minded for a charitable company etc)
Not sure how to bring it up during the interview.. please help
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The idea of bringing this up at interview is so wild
I’d bring it up if I felt I wasn’t going to get the job
Why would you bring it up? Why would you even consider attending an interview with a toxic company?
Some of us hope the reviews aren’t genuine or this time will be different. The market is at a state where you can’t be choosy.
“The idea of holding up a mirror to a seemingly shitty employer that I care a lot about working for is so wild”
🤔
Have you ever heard of the phrase ‘cutting off your nose to spite your face’?
I work in recruitment, we had a client that had a bad rep.
They encouraged people to ask them about glass door and so did we.
Turns out they were actually wastemen.
To give a different perspective, I interviewed at a company a few years ago who had very negative Glassdoor reviews. I did raise it in the interview, it was a very positive conversation. I was offered the job, accepted it and loved working there.
Yeah, i work in HR and had a candidate do this once and I respected the way they went about it. It also gave us the opportunity to explain how we respond to feedback from employees.
Conversely I also had a candidate drop out of our process and when asked why, she cited negative Glassdoor reviews - which was odd to me because our average rating was still quite high.
It depends what was in the reviews that put her off I suppose. I didn’t apply to a company once because of the same reason - although the overall tone of reviews was good there were a handful of reviews that detailed experiences with bullying and sexist behaviour.
Ended up being on a project team with one of their directors sometime later who was a prick so don’t regret that choice at all.
I feel like there is some common sense nuance to this, there are no hard and fast rules but a casual trawl of reviews will usually give you a gut feel one way or the other and it’s probably right.
How many reviews altogether? Are the reviews only negative? How old are the reviews? These all matter, but also don't forget, unhappy people are more likely to leave review than happy employees.
Yep. Regarding reviews in general: I regularly leave reviews if I've had a bad experience, but only leave a good review if I'm I'm impressed with something - which isn't often. Most of the time I don't review at all.
Yes, same. Or I only leave a positive one if I'm specifically asked, and it's a 1 person business.
If you want the job I wouldn’t bring it up.. but I would be very hesitant about leave your current role if things don’t feel right
Don’t bring it up if you want the job.
I make a policy of avoiding Glassdoor. The interview gives you the best vibe for the company.
Whenever I’ve used glassdoor it’s either all bad reviews or suspicious overly positive botted reviews with bad reviews buried at the bottom, suggesting that they’ve manipulated it.
Exactly this
When they say do you have any questions for them just say "If I was successful in getting this job what are the chances I wont be reimbursed for expenses, bullied and face hostility from HR?"
You don’t bring it up. You see what happens at the interview and then if you are offered a job you decide if you still want to work there.
People are far too happy to slag off ex employers once they have left.
Really I can't understand people suggesting to avoid the topic altogether. Yes it can be uncomfortable but it will also help understand them better. How they react to that question, for example, can be quite telling. It's a legitimate question...
Spot on! Do you think they would hesitate to pick you up on something negative they picked up from your social media?
Remember people- they are interviewing you and YOU are interviewing THEM, the power flows both ways and if they get annoyed about being lightly questioned about public domain information about them then that is a red flag and you are best avoiding.
Strewth! 😩
My previous company had terrible Glassdoor reviews. Worked there for a year and the company was quite mediocre but I felt fine working there.
If I hadn't worked at that company and was dissuaded by Glassdoor reviews, I wouldn't be at my current company which is 100x better.
Ignore it. Glassdoor is full of negativity for almost every company. It’s like everything on social media and the like, people only go to the effort to post it something negative happened. It gives a hugely disproportionate sense of the problem and a massively distorted perspective.
To be fair, I’ve just accepted a job and the new OPs Director was totally honest and open with me. He told me the girls in the office were quite toxic and explained why. They were toxic to him because he came in a streamlined thing. There were too many staff and not enough work. They were all friends. I understood that.
I’ve been taken on to generate business something they’ve never had before because all the office staff and MD were friends.
"What are your thoughts about the some of the Glassdoor reviews?".
Please note that bringing this up will ensure you don't get the job.
If they are that thin-skinned you’d have to be desperate to accept in the first place (no shame though, I appreciate most people arent made of money and have to disrespect themselves for whatever they can get)
I think it’s a good idea to bring it up, how they react gives you a good indication of what they will be like to work for. After all, they can bring up matters that happened in your past
You dont bring it up during the interview. What's the point? They will deny any of it and blame disgruntled employees. You just have to make your own mind up after the interview and take a risk if the compensation you are offered is good enough.
Just ask the question straight up - if there are reasonable explanations they will tell you, if there aren’t, you know to remove yourself from the process
I wouldn't bring it up ever if you actually want the job. Glassdoor is useful but it's always slanted towards negativity and I always take it with a few pinches of salt
Not sure if it helps, but you only hear about the bad reviews not the good ones. I've worked with colleagues who would complain stuff, similar to the above mentioned that I never struggled with. Expenses for example, they sent 1 email 4 months prior to request, never followed up and then accused the company of stealing. If I was to bring it up in an interview, id probably select one or two common bits of feedback to help phrase an overall question, and make relevant to your role or ambitions so it's personal
Yes you do only hear the bad reviews but sometimes there can be a common theme that you can bring up.. for example if everyone is complaining that nobody leaves the office til 7pm then that needs to be put to them
What are you hoping to achieve by bringing this up in the interview? All you can do is decide whether or not it sounds like a place you want to work. Honestly, I wouldn't bother attending the interview... and let them know why.
Only if you don't want the job. Don't mention it otherwise. Not your problem.
Glassdoor has been gamed to the point that it is useless.
Don't mention it.