Glassdoor, a website offering insights into salary reports and the ‘zeitgeists’ of wide range of companies (and reported earlier in our blog), announced recently that it has added multi-currency information increasing it’s tally of coverage to more than a 100 countries. That actually is a good move for them, since now employees can view salaries in their local currency, instead of viewing in American dollar, and then figuring out how much it amounts to.
Glassdoor, founded by some of Microsoft and Expedia’s veterans, is based on making salary reports and workplace-quality information as public as possible. It is a free service, where users have to provide information to get some in return.
Two other prominent features included by Glassdoor are:
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Finely filtering the information users are looking for; and
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Allowing a company’s representative to comment on their company reviews, thereby also allowing them to talk to Glassdoor employees to keep an eye on whether the information is accurate or misleading.
Glassdoor was launched in June of this year, and its analyst reports say that it has received 60,000 salary reports and company views already.
Seems more like JobeeHive(http://www.jobeeHive.com) that was launched last year in India. They are doing pretty well too.
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Glassdoor is coming into shape quick and gains some traction. How do you think its business model? It looks like traditional site like salary.com or new ones like salarylist.com are also useful
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My friend told me about another startup http://www.8hours.com that is in the same space. They not have employee reviews but also “contractor” reviews and bill rates. This space is wide open and will be a while before the leaders are determined.
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