Glassdoor lets firms sponsor their own pages on the site, or promote vacancies on those of poorly reviewed competitors.Keren Mitchell, founder of TheJobCrowd, which focuses on graduate careers, says warts-and-all reviews help companies by weeding out ill-fitting candidates.
Since Kogi began slinging its Korean-Mexican mashups to rave reviews, competitors have tried to imitate its dishes.
Meanwhile, I have already had one of Qype's local reviews competitors (for there are many) ask me "what do you think we should do?", referring to the newly supercharged Qype.
And only those who have been seated at the restaurant through an OpenTable reservation can follow up with a review, so competitors would have to spend a decent sum to manipulate reviews.
There is a cost to the company: significant expenses must be approved by the court, which means they are a matter of public record and subject to review by competitors, for example.
We all review our competitors' applications and papers.
I love this blog, but it would be nice to get a little deeper review of competitors than this.
After all, the FDA publishes information it receives when companies seek agency review, meaning competitors can steal ideas for using ingredients in new ways.
Shah says that because of the brevity of its reviews, Goodrec is better suited for mobile reviewing than competitors like Yelp, which doesn't allow users to submit reviews from its iPhone app (likely because the site prefers longer reviews).
