JobVent Takes Dirt Dishing To a Broader Audience

June 6th, 2007 at 7:11 am

I disagree, sites like this will do well, and we are planning on launching a competing product within the next few months. The public needs this kind of information.

June 6th, 2007 at 7:26 am

- The intereface turns me off ..

- The idea / does too - gossip is evil

June 6th, 2007 at 8:59 am

“The top companies already have in excess of 500 reviews each and there is 10,000+ reviews all up covering 2,000 different companies, with numbers growing daily.”

That isn’t correct, unless by top companies you mean like geico and verizon and a few others, companies with telemarketers, high turnover, minimum wage staff and dissatisfaction.. lookup Goldman Sachs - nothing.. Lehman - nothing… Ford - nothing .. GM .. 3 reviews .. Even Dunkin Donuts has only 4 reviews, all useless (”i worked there when I was 16″).

Many of the reviews in the “most popular” companies are just replies to other reviews, or flame-wars promoted by the placement of the company on the home page.

JobVent is really just fuckedcompany message boards being passed off as a company review site. Ok idea but very badly implemented owner must just be ignoring the faxes from lawyers asking for so-and-sos name to be removed, or for such-and-such info to be erased as it is internal and confidential. If it ever becomes useful, and not just an anonymous message board, then it’ll have a huge legal problem and no revenue.

June 6th, 2007 at 9:37 am

The Microsoft and Intel reviews are entertaining.

Unfortunately, Yahoo and Google do not yet have any reviews. I suppose I’ll have to stick with Valleywag for the latest dirt on GooHoo.

June 6th, 2007 at 10:21 am

You have to admit, the lawyers will defnitely have a field day with the site. But, hasn’t this been done before? Can’t you leave a note about a company at F****ed Company?

Justin is right, though, the types of companies that tend to have a higher turnover rate are mentioned more…and perhaps if you’re looking to work at a company then if the company isn’t named there’s a good chance that no one really has a beef with that company?

Besides, would you post about a company if you had only good things to say about a company? Most likely if you were very happy there would be no need to go out and post something about the company. So, there’s going to be an obvious bias there for companies that have stuff about them.

June 6th, 2007 at 11:24 am

I presume we all have had jobs that weren’t the best at the time, but, they did provide for us what was needed to sustain a decent living. JobVent has definitely taken it there and I’m sure will drive tons of opinions and upset employers. However, it is no doubt a good way for people to make a decision on whether they’d like to work in the prospective places.

June 6th, 2007 at 11:43 am

If they want meaningful numbers, they should have a system where the only points a commenter can assign are positive, and a bad company would have a very low average. Something like “on a value of 0 to 3, how is the management”. People who go to this type of site are almost never happy employees, and the larger a company, the more employees it has who might visit. This tends to skew the results a bit to show large companies as worse than smaller companies.

Also, I notice that there is a bunch of obvious ballot stuffing going on for some companies… the highest rated company there has a very large number of posts that say the same thing in different ways and always write the company name in all-caps.

June 6th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

All this Trumores and JobVent stuff was done by VentBox and covered on Mashable and the like way before. It’s unoriginal and I don’t see why TechCrunch would review this site over ours, quite frankly.

June 6th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

Nate, I looked over you site and the idea is equally horrible, though you used Web 2.0 looking oversized graphics.

Why do you believe that helping people aggregate anonymous negative comments and eventually building a negative community is a useful service or business?

June 6th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

worthless

June 6th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

PLEASE change the design!

June 6th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

It’s interesting information they’re offering… sort of like an amazon review for employers. I don’t think reasonable people will take the content on this site too seriously. It’s yet another overly focused web application though. You can just as easily complain about work on your blog or a more privacy oriented site like christonium.com.

June 8th, 2007 at 1:42 am

If you want to let off steam about your job from a stress point of view you should go to a site like http://www.workrant.com or http://www.bossbitching.com. This site is halfway between one of those types of site and a helpful review site. It needs to decide which direction to take.

June 11th, 2007 at 2:55 pm

I just emailed EVERYONE I know about this website and encouraged them to do the same.

June 17th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

Jobvent removes scores of -45 but keeps scores at +45 with user comments that do not adequately justify the numeric score associated with that review for Anderson Merchandisers. The lack of information along with high scores does not prove Jobvent to be a non-biased source. They should rename the site “Jobvent unless attorneys contact us”.