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My favorite is when companies would tell us, “instead of leaving negative reviews, you need to bring any concerns to leadership”

Recently quit working for a company that has won similar awards the last three years. They force their employees to vote for them. I always refused. They also would routinely ask employees to leave positive google reviews without disclosing their employment within the review. Don’t believe any single word from any single corporation.

As a recruiter I can tell you that candidates couldn’t care less about “great place to work” awards. They care about 3 things: 1) what is the compensation and is it fair? 2) Is the company financially stable and will I be safe from layoffs? 3) does the company respect work life boundaries and offer perks like fully remote or hybrid? Or will I be a slave on the plantation? Everything else is a moot point.

Never work for a company that is a "top rated company to rate for" because they all purposely inflate the reviews.

I often feel like these corporate hangouts or "team-building events" which are meant to be fun, are actually not REALLY fun, because deep down you always know that none of these people are your friends and you can't ever REALLY be yourself.

"Company where you can be yourself?" Oh, can I wake up at 10am? No Can I not talk to my co-workers for a week: No Can I take a break when I want: No Can I watch a video on my second screen: No Can I listen to some music: No Can I be myself?: Yes, just the you WE want you to be.

"Any man who has to say 'I am the king' is no true king."

The HR department asked me to put a review on Glassdoor to help the company. I hope that helped, but they hired someone behind my back to replace me, and then I got fired.

I worked at one of the top 10 companies, as claimed by Glassdoor, and while it was a great company they certainly had their problems and they would reach out to tenured employees asking them for reviews. I work at a company now that is a dumpster fire yet has a 4.3 rating on Glassdoor. CEO has a 90% approval rating yet when we had 10% layoffs company-wide s/he claimed no responsibility and spent the following Q&A telling all of us we need to work harder. Oh and s/he pretty much told us if we are not 100% onboard with the company then we should resign. Glassdoor is such a joke. Thanks for being the voice of realism in a sea of corporate shit shoveling.

The best company to work for: yourself.

I;m from Mexico, and every call center that proudly displays the Best Place To Work award banner, every single one, pays slave wages. Every call center with that award pays slave wages (even for Mexican standards).

“Corporate cringe” is the perfect term.

> we caught them inflating reviews > please exercise your best judgment evaluating this employer As if them being caught like that isn't a red flag in of itself.

Reminds me of the time my company tried to bribe us with a donut in exchange for a glassdoor review, they asked us to show them the review in order to give us the donut, it was a cheap one not even filled. I made the review and then deleted it

I quit this hellhole to become a self-employed dog sitter and trainer and that has been the single best life choice I have ever made

There's no such thing as "best company to work for". If that's the case, workers should get paid a living wage/salary, be treated with respect, have real benefits like a pension and paid vacation time and maternity leave, and not be forced to work more than 40 hours a week just to meet the CEO's bottom line.

I work in long haul trucking. We have an old running joke about Top 100 companies to work for. It's usually a list of the Top 100 Companies to NOT work for. It's always conducted by industry trade groups, and most of, if not ALL of, the companies on the list are their members.

My company once announce they had an amazing end of year announcement and had all the employees scheduled to company room, end of year, we all thinking it was going to be a bonus, but it was only to announce that they were in top 100 best places to work.

I work at a “Best Company”. They would send a mass email every year to complete the survey. They trained workers from India to be their replacement. Laid off the employees when they were done.

I worked for the company that, as an “employee of the month” wall photo, posted a picture of the owner’s Shi-Tsu dog. For a year. And before they sold a company, in order to show more revenue on paper, they cut down my salary after I worked for them for 17 years. Btw, I was the most senior employee who’s job was to fix other employees mistakes. Something like “The Cleaner” from the movie “La Femme Nikita”😂

Josh, I love what you are doing. What you are "preaching" is absolutely true. It makes me want to puke when coorporations try to portray themselves as "friends" or especially "family" to you which they ABSOLUTELY are not. The relationship is and should purely be contractual and no more. I do the work they need and they compensate me for the time and results so that I can be with my REAL family and friends outside the work hours.

In my old company they put these bogus awards and after 3 years of hard work I asked for a promotion and was told to wait and get more skills(i had all the trainings possibile,so that was impossible to do) while the person they chose stayed the half of me. After I left they could not find no one as they did not pay well for the inflation and now I earn 40% more.At the end i was the winner

I work at a "Top Places To Work" company and we each get $100 if we get on the list. Company isn't bad, just nothing special about it. About 20-30 years behind it's time. Micromanagement. "Good Ol' Boy" Leadership. Hires externally vs. promoting internally. Can't wait for my 2% raise this year... Anyone hiring?

Any company I worked for pressured employees to write 5 star reviews and would follow up to confirm you did this, implying your career at firm would be affected........poor performance reviews, fired, demoted, etc.. .....I would use these company reviews as just one of several tools to evaluate the firms

I worked at a best managed company before. I wound up with Complex PTSD that was so bad my therapist was horrified to find out about what happened there. I also wound up launching a lawsuit as well under the OHSA at the tribunal as well. These awards are bullshit if I got traumatized at one of these companies

I work for one of these top companies. We get surveys every 2 months and while they ask about the job, any grade we give goes directly to the manager. My manager is awesome and I don't want him to get disciplined, so I always give 10/10. If I could I would give 4/10 lol. I'm very vocal in my comments but those don't matter. If we have "bad employee surveys" upper management comes in and we have to have a meeting about why. Same thing when a customer gets a survey after I help them. The survey directly affects my pay. Anything less than 8/10 might as well be a 0.

The thing is all these sites can be manipulated, Thankfully Joshua is on the case

Non-union employment is hell.

I worked for a privately held staffing firm for nearly a decade. Both the corporate office and field offices, pad, attrition rates, north of 50% but somehow every year, they were one of the best companies to work for. Then, thanks to having some friends in the right places at said company, I learned that a lot of these awards are essentially bought and as a result I tend to stay away from companies who post about trivial awards.

my team had our annual dinn--i mean annual potluck where EVERYONE has to pay a small fee for the Christmas/New Year prizes (our leads and managers have to fork out their money for the food). it doesnt matter if you want or dont want to attend, you still have to pay. naturally the engagement team faced backlash for the mandatory payment so only the ones attending the "dinner" will be paying.

Heh I was in the second round of interviews at Quantum Metric when they had the layoffs and closed the position I was applying to. Dodged a bullet there! I’m glad to be working at a small mostly unknown software company that’s been in business and profitable for 30 years and has no venture capital funding etc, so nice after years of working in “startups” that do layoffs every other year.

Hey Joshua! I doubt you'll read this since the video came out a little while ago, but I'm an ex-employee of Indeed, whose parent company bought Glassdoor as you might know. As an Account Executive I was also able to sell Glassdoor company pages, and let me tell you that it's extremely common for clients to request from their AEs that "bad" reviews were removed from their page if they buy a company page. Fortunately, the moderation team was pretty decent in the way they handled internal requests but I'd be lying if I said that there hasn't been some manipulation on the part of AEs. Plus fake reviews are very common.

That's why you should always sort by "Lowest ratings first". If the 5-star ones are mostly 2-3 vague sentances about how great the culture and learning opportunities are, while the lower-rated reviews are long, detailed and have an obvious pattern, there's your answer on whether you really want to work there.

Ah yes, the classic "pay the brightest and the most hardworking in a gemeration close to nothing and treat them like kids"

Every single company ive worked at that has a "best place to work" badge has been absolutely horrible to work for.

I have worked in one of those top companies. The questions of the questionnaire were so naive, superficial and general that they hadcto get 6*/6*. In reality it was the worst company that i worked for, it was a huge step back professionaly and personally it was a playground of the narcissists that i have needed a lot of time to get back to myself.

How on earth Apple island a "good" company to work for if the average tenure of workers is just 1-2 years?

Non Compete Contracts should be outlawed. This goes against free market principles

I always hated team building that was after hours or worse on weekends that they won’t say is mana dory but it is mandatory. I want to enjoy my job, be able to leave to also enjoy my life…family going to gym, space out on Netflix if that’s what I want to do. Not a not mandatory ma dory team building that never really builds stronger connections. That happens organically when I am comfortable since I’m super shy and introverted……these team builder things are horribly painful for someone like me!

I actually work for a a company like that. However, I don't always go to their events rather it's virtual, hybrid, or in person.. unless I choose to.. and I'm still working at the company and get merit increases (8 to 10K per year pay bump). In my case, I think it's because I have a good manager that prefers metric/productivity over socializing/sucking up.

The truth has been spoken!! Many kudos bro!!

I knew these ratings were a joke when I saw my last company constantly awarded "best place to work" after they had masses of ppl quit for being overworked and underpaid. I still talk to my coworkers who stayed and they say the conditions haven't improved, so this award means nothing

I get emails from lawyers all the time asking me if they want any negative glassdoor reviews removed.

I worked at of the top companies, a top 4 accounting firm. Worked 60 hour weeks in a high stress environment.

I would be so clueless about the reality of the job world if you didn't make these videos. Thank you

Rare to find a genuine best place to work these days as the corporate machine continues.

Another banger from the Fluke!

Josh, you’re a hero at this point

Love the comedy of your delivery 😂

Why does anyone put up with being put in an adult playschool???

1. embrace the hairline. 2. if life is awful at the "best places to work"..can't imagine the misery of working at places that don't make the list.lol

Two more years and I am quitting my IT job and finding a job with the least responsibilities.

I noticed lot of these staffing companies want the contract benefits but expects the person to be abide to standard employee rules even though they are 1099.

Companies are always "tipped" on who gets the survey..

I like how I pay 19 bucks a month not to see adds but I still have to skip through a sponsorer that no one will use

If I were to write everything I don't like about my workplace, I'd go for the 3rd time to HR

Lol lunchtime collaboration AKA unpaid overtime.

I think it's very telling when a company calls past employees alumni.

In the past when I did team building exercises, I always did offsite, during work hours, little to no conversation about work stuff, and everybody got to go home early.

What are you taking with you? Resentment..😅😅 that was great.

Thanks, don't remind me. LOL. Great video as always.

I once accepted a job at a company but had to turn them down after a non-compete form was handed to me. This was not mentioned in the offer letter but was a separate paper that came after. In it, it said that I could not work at any other company in a 50 or 70 mile radius (can’t remember which one it was). The company was located in nyc so that meant I couldn’t work for any company in all of nyc and the surrounding areas of nj, ct, and Long Island. It also said I couldn’t do any related job, I think any job relevant to the company, and work for any of their clients which would mean every company in existence since they were a photo rental studio and a production company for many large brands in Manhattan. This non compete was in effect for 2 years after you leave. I work in a highly specialized field as a photo retoucher and the main hub for my job is nyc so when I read that I was like wtf they want me to be out of work for 2 years? That’s ridiculous. I told the company I refuse to sign this and hr was like “we’ve never actually enforced it so you’ll be fine” and I was like there is no way in hell I believe you and even if that is true then I shouldn’t have to sign this document and you should just wave it because I’m not taking my chances that you are going to sue me for getting a job. I’ve only worked at one other company that had a non compete and those were definitely on the lower end of jobs. The bigger the company I have worked for the less they are concerned with that as much as sharing proprietary data so they just tell you not to disclose their policies which is fine I get it. Anyways so when I told them I wasn’t going to sign it, they said they wouldn’t waive it so I rescinded my acceptance of the job and looked elsewhere. I then got 3 more offers about a week later from different company’s and ended up with an offer that was 45k higher than that one so I was glad this happened

I think the last 4 companies I worked for had a "top employer" award, each from different awarding bodies

Thank you

I knew it was a farce, had a feeling

I would be interested in seeing some analysis showing average new employee salaries before and after these companies make the list. I would imagine that making this list results in an increase in applicants. Per the laws of supply and demand, that would in theory drive salaries down at those companies for new employees as well as stagnate the existing employee's salary. In other words, there is a financial incentive to submit fake reviews.

Please also do a video on corporate awards and how they are bought and sold

I worked at two top places to work. One laid off most of the staff in several rounds over the couple of years I survived there, and one is the place that treated Shang Chi badly enough for him to leave accounting altogether.

I do like normal occasional social events for work teams. It makes it easier to work with people if you've had a beer with them. But there is a power dynamic issue and a fomo issue if you have better things to do.

Top companies to work for but never heard of a lot of them.

I applied for a machine operator on indeed and was contacted by 8 people. I gave two my resume and was ghosted. Every person was calling from out of state and sounded like they were from India. The job is a 6 month contract, but has been listed for a couple months. What do you think is going on?

I only pay attention to the one-star reviews. They are the most honest.

I'm not sure if you already had a video on how reliable are the salary ranges that employees indicate on Indeed or Glassdoor.

I legit was laid off from a best place to work company where my office overwhelmingly voted to no it was not just answered the questions honestly.

Well done! The hospitality industry is famous for these top rated awards. It's how they lure new blood.

if it’s a corporation/company they’re lying

I love how these companies think all these “team building” exercises and events make them appear more desirable to work out. It’s a huge red flag, makes it undesirable and cringe. And honestly it makes sense why a lot of the people that work at these type of companies expire themselves. If I couldn’t escape that hell I’d do the same. Jesus Christ.

my wife used to work for Vulcan Materials...they had a team building laser-tag event. She took me along... it was fun. All her bosses were real nice folks... unlike where I worked...retail sports store located in Katie. Texas...will not be revealed. I had fun with the corporate folks... keep smilin. 😊

Joshua, hi! I'm a fan. Your youtube channel is a great favour for many of us. Thank you! I write to you because I want to hear your opinion on what to do in a certain situation. Say, you land a job and after the first month of you working, when it comes time to receive your first salary they betray you by paying you less money than the amount you all agreed on during an interview process. Literally, what do you do? Any tips, any suggestions?

I have no problem with team building activities as long as i get paid to be there.

I worked for one of these “top companies.” The people in those photos are not real. At best, they’re paid interns. These companies wouldn’t dare to show their actual workers.

😂😂😂haha you threw linked in and recuirters under the bus yaaasw

I use to work at Macys for 10 years (i regret staying that long) and one of the things they did was morning rallies before the store opened to give the sales numbers and service reports. Whenever we did poor we would get told that we need to be the best service possible so we can have 10's on our review survey.......without telling us whats on the survey so we can improve......on top of over things

Any company on that list I would bet money are places that suck.

Hey that team with the laser tag, maybe it was offsite CQB training, you never know. ;p

I'm currently fighting with my employer, whom I didn't get to start with. 3 months of useless HR incompetence.

The companies that make a big deal about being a great place to work also tend to make their employees do activities that have little or nothing to do with the job.

I'd love to have Joshua on my podcast, I feel like we could rip apart companies for hours aha

BS Jobs at its finest

Glassdoor and glass ceiling sound similar. Saw an add for a narssistic slime hole i used to work for, now offering approximately a buck more per hour -- because the word is out on the sociopaths perminantly there.

I think around 90 or 2000 is when companies started stolkholming professionals. Certainly paying professionals who are far more productive then in previous centuries to work more hours for salaries a burger flipper with OT can surpass is why shit falling appart. Why would anyone care when they are treated like kids? Why would anyone even care to work in general? Not saying one can do without or that its a quality life but earning a little on contract and living frugally is the obvious option if one cares about their mental health such as it maybe in this society.

What they call "engagement opportunities" I call "sorority games".

simple sql query sorted by highest to lowest someone on the back end called it a day lol

8:39 lol whenever I think about me being in that 15/20 year picture or whatever I always think of the vid of the dude saying please I want to die lol. Like I hope I never have to stay at 1 of these companies that long.

The Cones of Dunshire!

"Resentment ... can you hang that up?" LMAO!

Your hairline isn't that bad Josh lol

That thinning hair is literally haunting.

the sponsor made me crackle 😂