Why do we think data from Glassdoor is valuable?

Negative reviews tend to be from the terminated. Positive reviews are from ass-kissers. Is this "clean" data, really?

Nov 24, 2020

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I was once pretty bullish on Glassdoor conceptually, potentially even around the time that The New Yorker profiled them, which I think was January 2018. Over the intervening years, I've soured on Glassdoor, for a couple of different reasons:

The questionable nature of the reviews (more in a second).
Their job postings have some of the most-insulting salar…

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