Comments on: How the Internet Is Driving Pay Transparency

By: Duncan Duane Kemp

Duncan Duane Kemp — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:09:20 +0000

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you have got a good point of view. Thanks for your thoughts. I found your site and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!

By: Robert Hohman

Robert Hohman — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:12:02 +0000

Hi John - Robert Hohman from glassdoor.com here.
From our perspective, what is new about glassdoor relative to the other salary sites is that you can get salary data down to the *company* level. Every other site we could ever find aggregated data to the regional level which, while interesting, isn’t all that useful if you’ve managed to land a job at, say, Google.
If you’ve got an offer in hand from Google, you want to know what Google is paying, and what Yahoo, eBay, and Microsoft’s Silicon Valley office are paying.
On that latter one - within 30 days we will be shipping the ability to dive into salaries by location and years of experience, which will let people fine-tune their salary research even more.

By: Ann Bares

Ann Bares — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:04:10 +0000

John:
Interesting concept - I’ll have a look at Glassdoor and share my thoughts back. Historically, self-reporting in compensation has not earned a good reputation for accuracy and reliability, but I’ll try to reserve judgment until I have a chance to learn more.
And thanks for the heads up on all our behalf - I hadn’t been aware of Glassdoor until your post.