4 Critical Steps To Take Before Accepting A JOB OFFER!

Seeing a couple negative reviews on Indeed or Glassdoor is normal. Seeing several bad reviews, mixed with polar opposites (ie “best company ever”) is a big red flag.

I worked for a small company with about 30 employees and 10 great reviews on Glassdoor. It would have been difficult to leave an honest review without outing yourself. I don’t consider Glassdoor reliable for companies under 100 employees or so.

I also suggest, when using glassdoor, to check where (as in which location of the company) the reviewer worked. Ive noticed some good companies have bad locations.

Glassdoor and indeed always show the positive results by default. Companies also pay to have good reviews. Make sure you filter to lowest rating and then if you see alot of comments that say the same thing......you know it's true. You will usually see a bunch of "helpful" upvotes.

I wish I had known this a few years ago when I was hired for a role…and they continued to interview for my position. There was also a bait & switch on my offer, the person that was supposed to be training me didn’t, and the office staff was very “mean girls” - just super toxic. They let me go after a couple of months - I was looking for another role anyway and had a much better one within a few weeks.

Can you make video on What to do when you are colleague making more money than you and you are the one who is doing all the hard work 😭😭

@5:25 I work for a company that does this. They also provide "scripts" that employees affected by layoffs are forced to post to linkedin, and if they dont, they get no severance. #toxic

The biggest employer in my area is consistently labeled as one of the top companies in the country to work for and claims to have an extremely high employee satisfaction rate, but if you talk to any of their employees directly, they paint a different picture entirely (on Glassdoor, they have a 3.9 rating, for instance, which isn't horrible but certainly not top tier). It has always perplexed me how they manage to maintain this image and win awards despite their employees seemingly being miserable.

Of all the jobs I've had, there has been a strong correlation between the healthy team cultures and the jobs that did not bother asking for references. At this point, I take a reference requests as a yellow flag - I will still provide references, but I start looking a LOT harder at the company & team culture.

Thanks—very helpful. Once I spoke to an employee from a company that won something like “Top Employer in Seattle”. She said the CEO and company in general militantly pressure staff to only give top ratings.

I had a company that I looked at the reviews and said the pay was great and management was the best. Boy was I in for a rude awakening. All lies toxic hardcore

Just wanted to say that I’m not in the job market anymore but I still really enjoy your videos, I find them soothing and enjoy listening to them while I work or sometimes when I’m trying to fall asleep lol

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic! I use Glassdoor to write reviews on my employers from my adulthood. I've written reviews a couple of months after resigning my position because it allows me to be more thoughtful about the good and bad parts of the company/job. I'm honestly glad I didn't write a review for my current employer sooner. Over the last 2 years, healthcare has become extremely toxic and unhealthy for staff. I'm working on writing my review since I'll be leaving my job soon. I encourage people to write reviews about their former employer so people can make an informed decision.

If I am going through an application process and a portion comes up where I must provide references or it won't let me continue, I either put my name and number in or just drop the application all together as the company obviously hasn't gotten with the times.

CAREFUL! Lots of staffing agencies use references for marketing leads even when you're not a serious contender for the opening.

This is so important, while I was during the review process I found that company wanting to hire had a history of lets say taking money and not delivering product. In my case, I have a Youtube brand I need to keep and had to refuse the offer.

Yes, thank you for mentioning that there are unscrupulous companies, which force employees to give good reviews! This also depends on the country you are in. The same company acts in a way when doing business in a country, and in a whole different way when doing business somewhere else. I have been waiting for you to mention this :)) Because until now, each time I heard you mention reading glassdoor reviews I used to roll my eyes.

Fun fact any former boss will never have anything good to say about any former employees especially if they worked harder than them.

I wish, I had this channel in the past. Would have saved me so much time. Definitely using some of these tips, moving forward.

Reference are kind of dumb too. After working in a toxic place during the pandemic because it was the only job available at first in my area, I could have never gotten another job. My old boss used and mentally abused all of my team. A lot of them were much younger and I let them no if even their most basic rights as a worker in the united states. He tried writing me up multiple times for talking with my teammates about benefits and pay. I found out the vast disparity in our pay between everyone on the team. I said no to going to team outting in the middle of the pandemic. My manager would say I was terrible even though I did fantastic work for them for their crap pay