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Jun 12 2008 11:58AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (3) |
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Ever wonder how much the guy in the next cubicle is paid? Or what your title pays at the competition? A new job and career Web site aims to help you find out.

GlassDoor.com hopes to shatter the secrecy around employee salaries by allowing users to anonymously post salary reports and review the companies they work for. 

Brought to the virtual world by the same people behind Zillow.com (the site that estimates the value of some 80 million homes), GlassDoor is just starting up and has chosen to focus on the San Francisco Bay Area and its tech community first.

Intel is one of the companies already rated with 42 employee reviews so far. And, thanks to that veil of anonymity, GlassDoor users aren’t mincing words. “Intel has ethics on the outside, but not when it comes to actual engineering work,” one process engineer says on the site. Ouch.

GlassDoor is an HR nightmare – but it’s a potentially great tool for us worker bees, one that, dependent on user honesty, could provide valuable data for those out there looking for a new job or those in negotiations with their current employer.

Salary numbers seem slightly askew to me, especially on the entry-level positions, but it’s only day two for GlassDoor and there isn’t much to compare against. As more people sign on and more data is accumulated, the site no doubt will expand in its collected reviews and salary posts.

If you want data specific to EEs, visit EDN’s global electronics engineering salary survey.  But for a broader look at high-tech salaries overall, check out GlassDoor. And share your thoughts on the site or our survey below.

---Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News