Glassdoor

[Pyjamas90]

Has anyone left a negative glass door review of a company they work for?
I'm waiting for a start date for a new role. My current role is toxic, ruined my MH and generally wouldn't wish it on anyone. I wish before I started I knew what other people's experience was.
Is it a bad idea to leave a poor review, if I make it clear it is my opinion and I have evidence of what I put?
Can they prosecute or reprimand me for it?

They can't sue you for leaving an honest review. If they try, they will lose.

If you wait until you leave before posting, there is nothing they can do to penalise you. Of course, if they figure out it is you, they could send a threatening letter. If they do, you should ignore it.

I'd want to make sure no future employers could tell it was me either. If its a small company and not many people coming and going then you could be identifiable. As a job hunter though I really appreciate when people do leave reviews

It is a large international company. Only a few people in my position at the UK though so they'll know it is me.

I've done it and put down a different job title or department or whatever.

It's your experience and you can say whatever you see fit to really.

I've had colleagues post "anonymous" reviews on there that were completely identifiable once you combined title, department, base location, length of service, timing of review plus their specific comments.

Most of those details could be cross-referenced from your LinkedIn, CV and possibly other online activities if people were checking your background in future.

I personally wouldn't want that to be published and following me forever. It depends how you'd feel about that and how protective you are of your privacy.

People take the negative reviews with a pinch of salt because they know that people who've had a bad experience will be highly motivated to review - like you. And that may not be representative of general experience because people who are fine are less likely to bother.

So after that it may not even have the desired effect.

There's no rush, give yourself time once you've been out of there a little while. See how you will with more distance, then decide. And if you do post, change any details you can change to reduce the risk of jigsaw identification.

Write down your frustrations on a piece of paper, get it out of your system and then tear the piece of paper up and put it in the bin.

once you put any form of data in electronic form on a platform, you lose control of it and it is owned by the platform. It really isn't worth having any audit trail that could come back to haunt you. No matter how angry, frustrated or betrayed you feel, nobody else really cares, let's be honest.

The data on Glassdoor is massively skewed by the mindset of the author in the context of their career, either good or bad. I personally take all the information with a pinch of salt because there's no way of knowing how accurate it is. It certainly wouldn't influence my decision-making for getting a job at a company.