On: Ask HN: Are Glassdoor reviews a reliable indicator of a company's culture?

[gdilla]

With NLP and ML any company can know who wrote what review if they wanted to. They have all your emails and thus writing style is easily ascertained.

[audleman → gdilla]

> With NLP and ML any company can know who wrote what review if they wanted to

And the motivation to dedicate resources to this is...? You already fired the person, what does it matter if you find out who they are?

[sevensor → audleman]

Current employess sometimes write scathing reviews as well, so there's clearly a potential for retaliation there.

[btown → audleman]

If they signed a non-disparage clause, it could be worth quite a lot.

[pravula → btown]

Streisand effect is a beautiful thing.

[literallycancer → btown]

That this is even a thing is extremely concerning.

[KGIII → gdilla]

Wouldn't that be easy to foil? I can, and do, write with different styles that depend on the audience I'm trying to reach. I'm reasonably sure I could write entirely unlike my normal writing and appear to be a completely different person. I've done a lot of writing for very different audiences.

Am I, perhaps, over-estimating my ability? Are they really that good at determining origin?

[forg0t_username → KGIII]

Even if you're overestimating your ability, it does not really matter for the case at hand. You can have someone you trust write the review for you.