Washington Post: Obama Commends Taiwan Arms Sale: http://tinyurl.com/3flcg2
Politweets — ... 2008 from TwitterBerry in reply to jkingsbury will enjoy playing www.palinbingo.com tonight! 12:55 PM October 02, 2008 from web reading Penelope Trunk's post on how to find meaningful work: http://tinyurl.com/4mv69h 02:46 PM September 30, 2008 from web wondering whether record labels could make free streaming music successful by following the Hulu.com model 07:06 PM September 29, 2008 from web see how you compare: www.glassdoor.com 01:15 PM September 29, 2008 from web is on eternal hold with my ...

Students Looking For Corporate Jobs, Check Glassdoor.com First
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — I had not heard about Glassdoor.com until the blog post written on ZDNet today.  Glassdoor.com is basically a site that reviews the management of a company and reveals the salary that you receive.  This is hell for H.R. and CEOs because students can use this information as leverage to negotiate their packages.  Prior to today, students had to provide information about their employer to be able to log in and review information about other companies. Now any student can log in and review the details about the company.  I’m guessing Glassdoor did this to ...

Glassdoor.com gets a $6.5M raise to share salary data
VentureBeat — ... With employers big and small announcing layoffs, there’s plenty of interest in figuring out which companies are the best places to work — after all, we may all be looking for jobs soon. Glassdoor.com, a site that compiles salary data and CEO ratings, is in a good position to take advantage of that interest. It’s growing at a healthy clip, and just announced a $6.5 million second round of funding. ...

A Site for Workplace Scuttlebutt Gets More Funding
Bits — Plenty of people are likely to be bookmarking Glassdoor.com soon. The four-month-old Web site can come in handy for navigating an era of heavy layoffs and endemic unemployment. Glassdoor.com, based in Sausalito, Calif., allows workers anywhere to anonymously list their salaries and rate their employer. Since the site was introduced in June, it has become a window into what employees privately think about 14,000 companies in 98 countries around the world. The evaluations of various chief executives range from the scathing (Randy Falco of AOL and John Donahoe of eBay) to the generally laudatory (Lloyd Blankfein ...

Glassdoor Raises Another $6,5 Million For Company And Salary Review Community
TechCrunch — Glassdoor has added another $6,5 Million to its war chest, thanks to a Series B funding round led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Jim White, managing director of the venture firm will assume a seat on the company’s board of directors. Initial seed funding for Glassdoor was provided in 2007 by its co-founders Hohman, Tim Besse and Richard Barton. The startup remained in stealth mode before picking up $3 Million in Series A funding from Benchmark Capital last March (they’ve also participated in this round), and ultimately launched in the ...

Glassdoor Raises Another $6.5 Million For Company And Salary Review Community
TechCrunch — Glassdoor has added another $6.5 Million to its war chest, thanks to a Series B funding round led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Jim White, managing director of the venture firm will assume a seat on the company’s board of directors. Initial seed funding for Glassdoor was provided in 2007 by its co-founders Hohman, Tim Besse and Richard Barton. The startup remained in stealth mode before picking up $3 Million in Series A funding from Benchmark Capital last March (they’ve also participated in this round), and ultimately launched in the ...

Glassdoor Gets $6.5 Million In Latest Round
paidContent — ... Career-focused social net Glassdoor.com has raised $6.5 million in a second round of funding led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Existing investors Benchmark Capital also participated. The Sausalito, Calif.-based startup gives job seekers a "real" view of what it's like inside the companies they want to work for, via anonymous tips, environment descriptions, and even CEO approval ratings. Glassdoor.com beta launched in June, and has since grown to include over 115,000 entries for more than 14,000 companies. And given the stream of recent layoffs across ...

Glassdoor.com gets a $6.5 million payday
BloggingStocks — ... is trying to do. Actually, this week the company announced a $6.5 million venture capital round (the total amount raised since its founding is $9.5 million). The investors include: Sutter Hill Ventures and Benchmark Capital. ...

Glassdoor.com gets a $6.5 million payday
BloggingStocks — ... is trying to do. Actually, this week the company announced a $6.5 million venture capital round (the total amount raised since its founding is $9.5 million). The investors include: Sutter Hill Ventures and Benchmark Capital. ...

In a Twitter Age, Even Bad News Like Layoffs Is on the Company Blog
NYT > Technology — SAN FRANCISCO — During past downturns, layoffs were mostly a private affair. Big companies tended to issue vague press releases filled with jargon about “downsizing,” and start-ups often gave people the pink slip without telling the world anything at all. Not anymore. In the age of transparency, the layoff will be blogged. Elon Musk, chief executive of the electric-car company Tesla Motors ...

Report: Employees Facing Layoffs More Likely to Talk About Layoffs
Digital Daily — ... , career and workplace chatter is more likely to include the word “layoff,” than not. That’s the word from Glassdoor.com, a site that collects insider reports on the salaries, work conditions and workplace attitudes of employees at companies around the country. ...

Panjiva: Panning for Gold in Numbers [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — Instead of trying to finish up nearly half a dozen unfinished posts, I ended up spending my entire weekend curled up with Ian Ayers’ Super Crunchers, a book that talks about how analyzing numbers can open doors to incredible insights. When you look at our increasingly sophisticated network ...

Glassdoor.com Lists Naughtiest and Nicest C.E.O.s of 2008
Bits — ... , a site that lets employees anonymously review their employers and share salary information, is out with a list of the naughtiest and nicest chief executives of 2008, based on those reviews. The nicest boss of all was Arthur D. Levinson, C.E.O. of Genentech, who got a 93 percent approval rating. He leads the Silicon Valley biotech company with a “decision-making structure that intrinsically forces authority downward to the lowest possible level providing many opportunities to exercise and test ...

Apple makes list of ‘50 Best Places to Work’
Macsimum News — ... Apple has made the list of the “50 Best Places to Work” as compiled by Glassdoor.com, a career and workplace community. Apple places 19th on the list with a rating of 3.8 out of five and a CEO (that’d be Steve Jobs, of course) with an approval rating of 90... ...

Netflix, Adobe, Google Rated Best Places To Work. AT&T, eBay, RadioShack Among the Worst.
TechCrunch — Where are the best and worst places to work? Glassdoor, the site that surveys employees about workplace conditions in great detail, has issued lists of the best and worst 50 companies as rated by employees out of the 11,000 in its database (see below). There aren’t any startups on these lists because Glassdoor does better with larger companies with more employees. Topping the list of best companies is General Mills, but tech companies make a decent showing as well, with Netflix, Adobe, Google, SAP, and NetApp making the top 10. ...

Daily Tidbits: Glassdoor tells you where to work
Webware.com — On Tuesday, Glassdoor.com, an online community that offers career advice, released its first Employees' Choice Awards, which lists the top 50 "Best Places to Work." According to the report, which features data from employees at more than 11,000 companies operating in the U.S., General Mills is ...

The best (and worst) places to work
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles — ... to any employee who submits information about him or herself. To qualify for the best list, companies needed at least 25 U.S.-based reviews, ratings of "satisfied" across all categories and a CEO whose approval rating is at least 50 percent. Several companies headquartered in the Bay Area are among the top 50, including NetApp , Intuit , Genentech , Apple , Juniper Networks , Cisco and Salesforce.com . The full best list is here , and the worst list is here . Glassdoor is ...

Bad Things (or Layoffs) Happen to Other People [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — Americans, by nature are an optimistic bunch. Even in tough times, there is something to be optimistic about. Where others see the glass half empty, we see it as half full. That is probably the only reasonable explanation for the findings of this survey conducted by Glassdoor, a Sausalito, Calif.-based ...

Employees Overwhelmingly Confident About Layoffs
WebProNews Feed — ... Expect Bonuses and Raises Employees in the U.S. seem to overwhelmingly share a "it won't happen to me" attitude when it comes to losing jobs. Glassdoor.com has released results from a survey, which found that 4 out of 5 employees have no concerns about being laid off in the next six months. GlassDoor breaks it down into two categories - companies that have reported upcoming layoffs, and companies that have not: This data reinforces the need for employers to be more open and transparent with their plans for the company and people. It is human nature to always think that ...

Top 10 Tools for Landing a Better Job [Lifehacker Top 10]
Lifehacker — [image] From the first Google search to the last interview, you can boost your odds at landing a better job with the right preparation. Here are our ten best tools and tips for job-seekers and career climbers. Photo by lewis chaplin ...

Top 10 Tech Companies That Pay Engineers The Most [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — Before I left for India, I asked folks at Glassdoor.com, a Sausalito, Calif.-based company that that tracks employee satisfaction, to run a custom query for me. I wanted to find out which 10 publicly traded companies had the best pay ...

Vanno’s Watchdog Index Keeps Companies Honest With ReputationCheck
TechCrunch — ... a company’s real-time reputation rank and compares the rank to the best and worst companies relative to customer and employee satisfaction, community involvement, the environment, patriotism and social responsibility. The widget can be used in a post or in the sidebar of a site. Considering all of the various inputs of the index, the ranking system cannot be deemed as 100 percent authoritative. But it certainly is a measure of the public’s perception of a company. (Contrast to Glassdoor, another reputation service from ...

Scoreboard: The highest and lowest rated leaders in tech
Between the Lines — ... at the companies mentioned. In the lists of the highly-rated and poorly-rated tech leaders below, I’ve listed them from high to low based on their approval rating. I’ve linked the company names to the full company profiles on Glassdoor.com, where you can see the updated numbers and lots of additional comments from the employees who participated. And I’ve also included the ratings that employees gave to their respective companies, beyond just the leaders. Highly-rated Steve Jobs, Apple : Approval: 90%, Company Rating: 3.8 Eric Schmidt, ...

Top 10 Tips for Talking Your Way into a Better Deal [Lifehacker Top 10]
Lifehacker — [image] Some people were born to haggle, negotiate, cajole, whatever you call it. The rest of us need some guidance. Here are 10 great negotiating tactics to use next time you want to get more for less. Photo by maveric2003 ...

Glassdoor Survey Says: Workers Are More Worried About Their Colleagues Being Laid Off Than Themselves
TechCrunch — ... When it comes to layoffs, the light always seems darker over your co-worker’s cubicle. A new employee confidence survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of company/job-review site Glassdoor.com shows that 26 percent of respondents are concerned about being out of work in the next six months. That is up from 21 percent in the last quarter. But when asked about their colleagues, a full 44 percent said some of them wouldn’t last through the summer. You never think you are the one who is going to get fired until your boss calls you into his office ...

Rate Your Job Interview on Glassdoor
Mashable! — ... When seeking data on salaries, company environment, and even approval ratings of corporate CEOs, one of the first places many people tend to turn to is Glassdoor, a Web service that allows users to anonymously share information like salary, workplace reviews, and their honest opinions. ...

Job seekers, be prepared
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles — ... , a site where employees and job candidates can rate their companies, launched a cheat sheet Tuesday on which companies give the hardest interviews and where the job hunt was most fun. The site is especially useful to people looking for jobs in technology or business, but it's entertaining for anybody who wants a peek into what makes companies tick. Companies with the hardest interviews so far are ...

Glassdoor launches new job interview prep section
VentureBeat — ... Glassdoor, the career site that gives users a window into what life is like at thousands of actual companies, has launched a new section on its site designed to help the swelling ranks of job seekers better prepare for interviews. Basically, users will now have free access to questions they might confront during interviews at specific companies. ...

GlassDoor Provides Online Community, Info-Sharing For Job Seekers [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... The coupling of the current “post-web 2.0 era” with the ongoing economic slump would seem to make for a perfect opportunity for a startup like GlassDoor, a job-seeker and career community where you can find and share information about companies, careers and specific jobs, including details like pay and interview questions. ...

More Employees Say They’ll Work Harder, Longer for Less [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... . As employers have continued to make cutbacks over the last six months, more Americans say they’re willing to bite the bullet and make job concessions if it increases their job safety, Glassdoor, a Sausalito, Calif.-based startup, found in a recent survey. ...

Fearless Feedback! Tech Workers Dish Dirt on Their Employers [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Thinking about making a move to another company? Sure, the economy is in tatters and layoff announcement have become commonplace, but it’s always nice to know whether or not people at other companies are as miserable enjoying their jobs as much as you. Glassdoor, the salary and employer review site, sent us over reviews from a few anonymous employees at a number of big-name tech companies — some good, some bad — along with CEO approval ratings. ...

Apple employees have very high Jobs satisfation rate
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... Glassdoor, the salary and employer review site, to see just how much love Apple employees had for fearless leader.  They rate Apple and Jobs vs other technology industry companies and their leaders. ...

Subvert the HR department with Workscore
Webware.com — ... But I do hope it works, because it really could make information about skills and accomplishments transparent and portable, and it gives workers more control of their personal brands. Creating standard Workscore profiles will be free. The company will make money by selling analysis tools on the data it collects. Companies will be able to track how users perceive them; individuals will be able to benchmark themselves against peers. See also: Vault, Glassdoor, JobScore (review). Originally posted at Rafe's Radar ...

Steve Jobs Top Tech CEO: Survey [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — Two nights ago I finished reading “Inside Steve’s Brain” by Leander Kahney and last night started reading the updated version of “The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer” by uber-VC Michael Mortiz, who a long time ago was a fabulous writer/reporter. The two ...