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Glassdoor
Employer review and salary transparency app owned by Recruit Holdings, the same parent as Indeed
As of 1 September 2026, Glassdoor is free to use. An app for anonymous employer reviews, salary reports and interview feedback, free for job seekers to browse. Softwr lists it under Recruitment. Glassdoor is made by Glassdoor, Inc. (a Recruit Holdings company), available on iOS, Android, Web.
Overview
What Glassdoor does
Glassdoor hosts anonymous employee reviews of employers, CEO approval ratings, self-reported salary data, interview experience reports and job listings. Reading a limited amount is free; historically Glassdoor required users to submit their own review or salary data to unlock full access to others' reviews, a "give to get" model that has been relaxed over time but still shapes how the platform gets its data. The ownership fact worth stating is that Glassdoor and Indeed are both owned by Recruit Holdings. Indeed's revenue comes from employers paying for sponsored job placement, and Glassdoor's core value proposition to job seekers is candid, sometimes negative, employee feedback about those same employers. That creates a structural tension: the parent company's job-board business depends on employer ad spend, while its review business depends on being seen as independent of employer influence. Glassdoor has faced periodic accusations from users and commentators that negative reviews are harder to find or that employer-friendly content is favoured, which Glassdoor disputes, but the shared ownership with a company that sells employers advertising is a fact worth knowing regardless of how any specific dispute resolves. Buyers, meaning job seekers, use it free. Employers can pay for enhanced employer branding pages and recruiting products, which is where Glassdoor's direct revenue comes from, similar in structure to Indeed's employer-paid model.
What people use it for
- Researching a company's culture and management reputation before accepting a job offer
- Comparing self-reported salary data for a role before a negotiation
- Reading anonymous interview reports to prepare for a specific company's process
- Checking CEO and leadership approval trends before joining a company
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Glassdoor.
- It shares the same parent company, Recruit Holdings, as Indeed, whose revenue depends on employer ad spend, which sits in tension with Glassdoor's role as an independent employer watchdog.
- Review authenticity cannot be independently verified, and companies have periodically been accused of soliciting favourable reviews from current employees to offset negative ones.
- Self-reported salary data is not verified against payroll records, so figures for a given role and company can be inconsistent or dated.
- Older accounts were required to submit their own review or salary before unlocking others' data, and remnants of that give-to-get pressure can still affect what gets submitted.
- Employers can purchase enhanced branding pages, which changes what job seekers see on a company's page compared with a company that has not paid for branding.
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Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
Pricing
What Glassdoor costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Job seeker account
Free
- Free browsing of reviews, salaries and listings
Capabilities
Features
Employee reviews
Anonymous ratings and written reviews of employers across categories like culture and management
Salary reports
Self-reported salary data by role, company and location
Interview insights
Anonymous reports of interview questions and process experiences
CEO approval rating
Aggregated employee approval score for company leadership
Job listings
Job postings, often syndicated with or alongside Indeed listings given shared ownership
Company comparisons
Side by side comparison of ratings and salary data across employers
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Is Glassdoor free to use?
Yes for job seekers; employers pay for enhanced branding and recruiting products.
Are Glassdoor and Indeed the same company?
No, they are separate products but share the same parent company, Recruit Holdings.
Are Glassdoor reviews verified?
No, reviews and salary reports are self-reported and anonymous; Glassdoor applies moderation but does not verify employment or salary details against payroll records.
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