Wonderful culture, challenging times - Product Manager Glassdoor Employee Review

4.0
17 July 2020
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Pros

In many ways, I feel very fortunate to work at Glassdoor. -Tremendous learning and growth opportunities. Glassdoor is really committed to developing its people and giving them increasing responsibility and seniority over time. -My colleagues are kind, smart, committed, thoughtful, and fun. I literally miss hanging out with them now that we're working remotely, which I know is not true of a lot of people at other companies. -The mission - people really want to do right by jobseekers and help them find a job and company they love. This is our driving force, no matter what rumors you hear about employers paying Glassdoor to delete reviews. That doesn't happen. We would never sacrifice our trust to jobseekers like that. -I have a lot of faith in our CEO and CPO. I believe they are doing their best to navigate a challenging economic climate, innovate, manage a complex integration process, and support our people. -A fun, collaborative culture. I work with many cross-functional teams and with few exceptions they are valuable partners, committed to achieving our shared goals. -Layoffs are always devastating, but I appreciate that Glassdoor put together a generous severance package including 3+ months pay, healthcare through the end of the year, etc.

Cons

-Covid has hurt our business, and we have dramatically changed our company strategy in response. I am tentatively hopeful that our new direction will be successful, but it feels like it might be a long slog to get to there. -Related, the recent pace of organizational change has been relentless. No matter how well-intentioned, it's created some uncertainty and reduced motivation. -Total compensation for PMs seems to be under market, especially now that LTIPs are worth so little. My friends in similar roles have 3-10x as much equity as I'm currently earning.

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Pros

- Amazing management & team - Growth and learning opportunities - Flexible with work-life balance - Meaningful work

Cons

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2.0
11 Feb 2026
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Pros

The benefits and culture were probably the best I've ever had. Even better than the benefits were the people I worked with. I enjoyed coming into work and doing my job and really stood behind the company tag line of helping people find jobs they love.

Cons

During covid things started getting bad. Like many other companies layoffs came around and how the company handled those were terrible. You show up one day and next thing you know you lose access and cryptic email and then your'e gone. This happened again in 2025. They brought in person whose job it was to basically get people to leave. They didn't care about the content on the site, or any of the efforts in place to promote integrity and transparency and instead just wanted to shove AI down everyone's throat. What's sad is that Glassdoor was once a great company that I was proud to say I worked for. Now it's just like everywhere else, AI, AI, AI and trying to get people to quit before the next round of layoffs.

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