Glassdoor.com(R) Expands to Help Job Seekers, Adding Free Job Interview
Reviews, Questions and Ratings
Nearly 2,000 Interview Reviews for 1,000+ Companies in 40 Countries Collected
During Private Beta
SAUSALITO, Calif., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- With unemployment rising to record
levels, career site Glassdoor.com is launching a new section today to help job
seekers better prepare for and stand out in the increasingly competitive job
interview process. Glassdoor's new Job Interview Questions and Reviews section
(http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/index.htm) allows job seekers to get
insight into the interview process and questions they may encounter for a
potential job at a specific company - all for free. The company is extending
the same "give to get" model it created to increase transparency around
company pay and working environments to the most critical part of job cycle -
the job interview.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090428/SF06450)
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080611/AQW066LOGO)
Over the past several weeks, Glassdoor has been collecting anonymous job
interview questions and reviews through a closed beta from applicants who have
completed an interview in the past two years. The reviews include details from
actual candidates about the entire hiring process from the interview format,
average duration to overall difficulty, and actual questions that were asked.
Each review also includes details as to whether an offer was made and whether
it was accepted or rejected -- and why -- along with any negotiation tips.
Approximately 2,000 interview questions and reviews for more than 1,000
companies across a variety of sectors have been collected to date. This data
can now be accessed through a new Interviews tab from the Glassdoor.com home
page. From here, anyone can also leave a review about a recent job interview
experience through a short form that takes less than five minutes to complete.
"Today's job market is more competitive than ever, and being prepared can
increase your odds of getting an offer, give you more confidence, and reduce
pre-interview anxiety. The job interview is the front door of the job cycle
and is the next logical step for Glassdoor to bring greater transparency to
every aspect of our careers," said Robert Hohman, co-founder and CEO of
Glassdoor.com. "Glassdoor's new Interview Questions and Reviews section allows
people to act like a fly on the wall in thousands of interviews, gathering
important insights from the vantage of other candidates. In addition to the
useful information found in Glassdoor's company reviews and salary reports,
Interviews allows any job candidate to customize a study guide specific to a
job opportunity, company and industry to get an important edge in this tough
market."
Specifically, Glassdoor's new Interviews Questions and Reviews Section
includes:
-- Interview background details: Each interview review is categorized by
a
job title, company, location and time period when the interview
occurred. The easy page layout also outlines how the interviewee
secured
the interview (referral, job posting, etc), the type of interview(s)
(1:1, panel, etc.) and how long the process took. Of the job reviews
submitted on Glassdoor.com, the average interview takes 25 days from
start to finish and more than half were secured through an online job
posting (38%) or through an employee referral (17%).
-- Interview questions and community answers: Interview reviewers are
asked
to share up to five of the most difficult or unexpected questions
asked
and provide any insights on the answer. Other community members can
mark
the questions as helpful or not helpful and provide suggested answers.
-- Interview ratings (hard/easy; positive/negative): Users are asked to
rate their overall experience for ease or difficulty and whether they
were left with a positive or negative impression. Interestingly, a
hard
interview does not translate to a negative experience. For example, a
marketing analyst candidate at American Express in New York rated the
interview difficult but the overall experience positive, whereas a
systems engineer candidate at Google in Santa Clara rated the process
difficult and the overall experience negative.
-- Interview outcome: Candidates are encouraged to wait until the
interview
process is over so they can share the final outcome: whether the
candidate was offered the job or not and if it was accepted or
declined,
and why.
-- Negotiation tips: Candidates who received a job offer can also share
details of the offer and any negotiation tactics they used or
suggestions for others in the same situation.
Adding to the Glassdoor community features, users have complete control over
how the Interviews section is categorized by selecting relevant keyword tags
for each review and question submitted. This makes it easier to browse by job
types and companies and sort by the most relevant interview questions (e.g.,
marketing, java, sales, brain teasers, etc.).
Anyone visiting Glassdoor can view all Interview Questions and Reviews for its
seven "Sneak Peek" companies: Accenture; Cisco Systems; Deloitte; Google; JP
Morgan Chase; Microsoft; and Yahoo. To see job interview reviews for other
companies, a user must create an account using a valid e-mail address and
contribute an anonymous interview review or a company review. Existing members
who have previously completed a company review have immediate access to all
Interview Questions and Reviews. However, to see all salaries and other
compensation data for all companies beyond the sneak peeks, a user must also
complete an anonymous salary survey for any job held within the past the
years. Students who have no interview or work experience can still access
Glassdoor data by requesting a student account via email using an active .edu
email address to students@glassdoor.com.
Glassdoor has received significant response from around the world since its
public beta launch in June 2008. Today, more than 200,000 salary reports and
reviews have been approved from users from 23,000 companies in more than 100
countries. By comparison, at launch, Glassdoor had about 3,000 salary reports
and company reviews for 250 companies, highly concentrated in the technology
sector in the United States. As with company reviews and salary reports, all
interview reviews must adhere to Glassdoor's Community Guidelines and are
reviewed and approved by a Glassdoor team member before posting to the site.
For more information about Glassdoor, visit www.glassdoor.com. To receive
regular updates about new and interesting data and reports, visit the
Glassdoor blog (www.glassdoor.com/blog).
About Glassdoor.com
Glassdoor.com is a career and workplace community where anyone can find and
anonymously share real-time reviews, ratings and salary details about specific
jobs and job interviews for specific employers -- for free. Designed to
deliver greater transparency around our work life, Glassdoor enables
employees, job seekers, employers and recruiters to simultaneously see -- for
the first time - unedited employee opinions about a company's work environment
along with details of pay, benefits and CEO approval ratings along with
detailed accounts and questions about the interview and hiring process.
Glassdoor was founded in 2007 and launched its public beta in June 2008.
Headquartered in Sausalito, Calif. Glassdoor has received $9.5 million from
Benchmark Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures, which followed initial seed
investment from Glassdoor co-founders Rich Barton, Robert Hohman and Tim
Besse.
GLASSDOOR.COM INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND REVIEWS FAST FACTS*
Summary Highlights
-- During its private beta, Glassdoor.com collected nearly 2,000
Interview
Questions and Reviews for more than 1,000 companies in 40 countries
-- More than half of job interviews reported were secured through
online job postings (38%) and employee referrals (17%) and
occurred
within the past 18 months
-- Average interview length: 25 days
-- 60% of candidates received a job offer and accepted; 9% of
candidates declined a job offer; 31% received no offer or declined
to state
Top 10 Companies with Most Interview Reviews**
-- Microsoft
-- Apple
-- Google
-- Deloitte
-- Amazon.com
-- Accenture
-- Booz Allen Hamilton
-- Yahoo!
-- Proctor & Gamble
-- Bank of America
Top 10 Industries with Most Interview Reviews
-- Technology
-- Consulting
-- Marketing
-- Sales
-- Retail
-- Customer service
-- Teaching
-- Finance
-- Account Management
-- HR
Top 10 Job Categories with Most Interview Reviews
-- Software Engineer
-- Project Manager
-- Consultant
-- Senior Software Engineer
-- Engineering
-- Product Manager
-- Marketing
-- Business Analyst
-- Analyst
-- Associate
Top 10 Markets with Most Interview Reviews
1. New York City
2. Seattle
3. San Jose
4. San Francisco
5. Washington DC
6. Los Angeles
7. Chicago
8. Boston
9. Atlanta
10. Dallas
Companies with Highest "Easiest" Rating**
-- Bank of America
-- Best Buy
-- IBM
Companies with Highest "Difficulty" Rating**
-- McKinsey & Company
-- Amazon.com
-- Google
Companies with Highest "Positive" Experience Rating**
-- Teach for America
-- Cisco
-- PricewaterhouseCoopers
* This reflects data collected through April 27, 2009
** Companies with 10 interview reviews or more each
Top 10 Hardest or Most Unique Interview Questions
-- "You have 25 horses, what is the minimum number of races you can
find the top 3? In one race you can race 5 horses, and you don't
have a timer." - Google Linux Kernel Engineering
-- "If you were to get 100 Christmas trees unloaded on your door step
in the middle of July, what would you do with them?" - Visa
Marketing
-- If you saw the General Manager steal a candy bar from the front
register, would you report him. - Best Buy Geek Squad CIA
-- "You have 1 seat left on a flight, and you have 5 passengers
waiting on standby, a military man in uniform, a pregnant woman, a
woman
and her infant child, an elite customer (one who is a frequent flyer
of
NWA), and a gentleman trying to go a see his ill sister. Who will be
the
one to get the empty seat on the flight, and why?" - Northwest
Airlines Flight Attendant
-- Using the components of a pen, if you could make another item what
would
you make? - Tyco Electronics Engineering Rotational Program
-- "How many trash cans would you say are in Times Square? Take me
through your thought process..." - American Express Marketing
Analyst
-- "If you were a cereal, what kind of cereal would you be?" -
Cisco Systems Financial Analyst
-- "If you have a three gallon jug and a five gallon jug - no marks on
either one. The goal is to fill the five gallon jug with four gallons
of water. How is this accomplished?" - Goldman Sachs Div/Back
Office
-- "12V source in series with 3 caps of so and so capacitance, the
last of which is hooked to gnd. If node between the first and 2nd cap
is
initially open, then closed, what are the node voltages." - NVIDIA
SRAM Design Engineer
-- 'What would you do if it was 4:30 PM on a Friday before your
vacation and I came in with a job that I needed to have done by Monday
morning?" - DISH Network Administrative Assistant
SOURCE Glassdoor.com
Glassdoor.com, +1-415-339-9105, ext. 800, pr@glassdoor.com
