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I’m sure I don’t need tell you that the economy is performing REALLY badly these days.  U.S. jobless rates are at a 14-year high and consumer confidence numbers are at an all time low.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 37.2% year to date, and personally I can’t bring myself to look at my [...]

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It’s been tough to report good news in the financial services industry recently, but today a former employee from Bank of America, one of the world’s largest banking institutions, received some good news - $500 worth of good news to be precise. This former Bank of America Credit Analyst has been selected as the [...]

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Mashable’s Open Web Awards is officially open for nominations and we need your vote to help get us to the next round of judging.
In case you aren’t familiar, the Open Web Awards is the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in Web technology. Last year more than 250,000 people like you [...]

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As you may have seen already, we announced today that we have secured $6.5 million in Series B funding, led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from our existing investor Benchmark Capital.

The past few months have been a whirlwind, and Glassdoor.com has experienced significant growth. Our new investors share our vision of providing greater [...]

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While it remains to be seen whether or not the bailout bill will curb top executive salaries and payouts, the topic of CEO compensation has always been the subject of controversy and gossip. In particular, the debate over severance packages circulates around what is fair and whether the executive should really be paid for [...]

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We spend a lot of time here at Glassdoor thinking about transparency – how do we use it to help everyone make better career decisions?
We’ve been working on solving that fundamental question for awhile now, and to be honest - before we launched we weren’t really sure how our hard work would be received. [...]

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Rumors are swirling around Yahoo! - is it going to be an AOL merger or a Microsoft buyout? It’s not surprising – rumors and speculation have become a favorite past-time when it comes to Yahoo! Everyone loves to pile on, but as a former Yahoo! employee – it’s getting harder and harder to [...]

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It goes without saying that there is a lot riding on the upcoming presidential election, so for a little while longer, there will be no escaping the endless barrage of politics. But what about escaping politics of a different kind, the kind that are not tied to the election cycle but affect you just the [...]

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We’ve been very busy at Glassdoor. Between adding new features, updating our CEO watch list, and reaching a Glassdoor milestone of 100k approved reviews and salaries – we have finally selected our “Review of the Month” winner for September. In case you aren’t familiar, each month we spotlight one Glassdoor employee review and [...]

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It’s been awhile since we’ve done a product update (we’ve been caught up blogging about some of the economic news), but this week we pushed out a few product updates and I wanted to take this opportunity to give everyone the latest from the team.

About a week ago we achieved a major Glassdoor milestone – [...]

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