Rate Your Employer Sites – It’s About Damn Time

I’ve noticed lately a lot of new sites cropping up allowing developers to rate their employers. I say it’s about damn time. The state of IT and development shops is in pretty bad shape and money isn’t everything. If your boss is an ass or can’t even manage himself, your department is in chaos mode 24x7, there is no planning and just run & code, or you’re being scolded for things that are just crazy or made up then there’s a little more than just money that can ruin your job, career, and family life.

Obviously there are good shops and these sites help to highlight that as well. But the problems with bad management, lack of process, code & run, overworking their employees are something you do not know about until you’re inside the organization. Then it’s too late. We need resources like this to help us in our job searches. And the more we contribute to reviews, the more useful these sites will become.

I highly urge anyone reading my blog to contribute. Sincerely rate your development shop, managers, etc. Talk about the problems in some kind of detail so others can really get an inside glimpse of the issues involved so that other developers don’t make the mistake of working in a bad environment. The more details the better to make your rating legit. Do not name names, but give enough detail to let everyone know thumbs up or thumbs down.

Here are some sites you can contribute to and rate your development shop or organization as a whole:

http://coderific.com

http://www.jobvent.com

http://www.rateitall.com/s-100-employers.aspx

http://www.gamewatch.org/phpbb3/

http://www.ratemyemployer.ca/ (Canada)

If you need company profiles to help you enter in the information for your company, just search them on LinkedIn and you get a nice profile.

Print | posted on Sunday, August 16, 2009 4:35 PM

Comments on this post

# re: Rate Your Employer Sites – It’s About Damn Time

Nice. I'm in total agreement, and wish this trend had started *years ago*. Conversely, I can imagine that companies would want to encourage this as well, especially those that move through regular hiring cycles. Of course, I mean only those companies who make employee satisfaction a priority, and are confident that their employees feel the same. Say, I wonder how many of those kinds of companies there are?

Left by Travis Dunn on Aug 18, 2009 6:31 AM

# re: Rate Your Employer Sites – It’s About Damn Time

There are a lot of different sites out there for this. I would like to offer your readers an opportunity to out another one, http://jobbala.com

The point of jobbala is to be a resource to job seekers so they can find out about future employers prior to working there.

Check it out. Hope you like it.

Matt Howland
Find Job Reviews -- Rate My Job | jobbala.com

Left by Matthew Howland on Aug 19, 2009 8:06 PM

# re: Rate Your Employer Sites – It’s About Damn Time

Nice Matt. Thanks for your contribution to yet another rating system.

How do you guys protect your posters other than anonymous posting? Do you delete IPs in your database every 24 hours? IP is the most important next to required auth or not.

Left by Dave Schinkel on Aug 19, 2009 8:17 PM

# re: Rate Your Employer Sites – It’s About Damn Time

Hey awesome job man
Really very cool stuff
And the video is really awesome man it is dam cool man....actually i am a student and recently completed my CISSP practice exams and that was awesome and now i am really working on some of my projects man..!!!

Left by Sara Pall on Aug 27, 2009 5:42 AM