If a company has under 2.5 or say 3 star reviews on Glassdoor/Indeed with many "don't go theres", are you applying for a job there?

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I would probably read the reviews and consider them, but online reviews alone wouldn't weigh too heavily on my decision. I always assume online reviews are always going to be skewed toward being negative. People who feel they've been wronged, or people who claim every interaction at work is the result of a toxic atmosphere, are the people who tend to let it out of their system by writing online reviews. It comes down to assessing the credibility of the reviews. I will say I once read Glassdoor reviews of a company where I'd worked, and some of them struck me as accurate and one in particular was both accurate and hilarious.

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That’s kind of where I land too. I assume reviews skew negative, but if the same issues keep coming up, it’s hard to ignore.

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I've always read reviews about my own companies and I never saw people make anything up. I take them seriously.

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Same. I figure there’s some exaggeration, but reviews are generally accurate for companies I have worked in.

I’d echo C1 in that I’d take with a grain of salt bc generally people with an axe to grind are more likely to leave reviews than happy people. That said, if there is dozens of reviews that all sort of say the same thing… I’ll probably listen to that.

All of that notwithstanding, depending on pay, I might ignore it anyway.

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Right, and pay is a fair point too, I’d probably at least go in with eyes open if the pay is great.

Depends on the company’s size - if it’s small and has bad reviews, run. If it’s larger with multiple offices and departments, see reviews for your potential office or department/team. Overall, I tend to trust negative reviews if enough of them say similar things

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I firmly believe leadership and culture flow downstream - like the saying “sh*t rolls downhill.” In my experience, bad leadership or upper management inevitably harms the culture and health of a place. But in a company or org with different offices, culture can vary office to office in accordance with localized leadership. I worked at a family-owned company before law school and the owner had a bad temper (yelled at employees, etc). There was super high turnover due to the toxic atmosphere. After law school, I worked in a federal agency and transferred field offices at one point. The culture differed so much in the two offices and it directly reflected the reasonable vs bureaucratic nature of the respective management

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Hell no. I’ve done it before would never do it again

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Yeah I have. Those reviews were due to horrible management that had since exited.

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Depends what kind of employer. Places with a huge number of customer service roles like retail or restaurants tend to be low but based on those common roles, it doesn't really give a picture of the legal office/corporation environment.

But if the lawyer reviews are bad it'll give me some pause, especially if there are multiple

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Talk to them and decide for yourself. Vegetarians give the finest steakhouses lousy reviews

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10000000%. Learned this the hard way twice now.

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