I don't know, holding companies hostage sounds great. Companies already hold employees hostage in many ways (life essentials, healthcare, etc).

When Glassdoor was just about employees holding companies' feet to the fire by posting about their shitty management practices, it was great. That it became just another profit-generator corporation is the fault of Capitalism, not its specific business model.

I would agree, but Glassdoor didn't always used to be like this. When they started it was an extremely great premise, and people flocked to it. Glassdoor was to exiting a company as LinkedIn was to entering a company. But they got greedy, they dropped their (very high honestly) morals to try to cast a wider net. They started catering to businesses rather than the people providing the information.

I remember when they started enforcing accounts just to see salaries and companies and knew it was well over then. It used to be free information for anyone to check on a company, now it's just garbage. I don't trust the reviews, companies push employees to make fake reviews, and it's all trash.

At my first full time job my supervisor specified that I could hang up on anyone who brought up their lawyer, used abusive language, or brought up the BBB.