Stealth Startup Glassdoor.com Launches: Employment Conditions

Sausalito, CA based stealth startup Glassdoor.com, the subject of months of speculation has launched and offers an employment conditions service.

Glassdoor.com has impeccable backing, with CEO and Founder Robert Hohman previously being the President of Hotwire.com, and the team includes Richard Barton, CEO of Zillow, and Tim Besse, previously in senior management at Expedia. The board also includes Erik Blachford, CEO of TerraPass and former president and CEO of Expedia, Inc. and CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp’s travel division, Stephen Kaufer, president and CEO of TripAdvisor and former president of CDS, Inc., and Rusty Rueff, former CEO of SNOCAP and previous EVP at Electronic Arts and executive at PepsiCo.

Glassdoor.com is billed as a career and workplace community where anyone can go to find and anonymously share real-time reviews, ratings and salary details about specific jobs in specific companies.

Registration and access to all employee reviews and salary details on Glassdoor is free to anyone provided they first write a review or contribute to a salary survey. Glassdoor refers to this as a “give-to-get” model that will populate the site from day one as people want to get in.

In addition to user contributed content, Glassdoor has been collecting company reviews and salary reports from employees who work for targeted companies over the past several months and will offer 3,300 reviews and salary reports for more than 250 companies at launch.

Glassdoor takes the idea behind The Funded and applies it to every company in the United States, a nation wide watercooler of employee condition gossip and sharing. Ultimately this will only end up as good as the level of community contributions, but it’s an untapped space that would seem to have huge possibilities. Definitely a site to watch.

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