I'm here to comment on one thing: Despite what HR responses say, Michael Fertik (the CEO) DOES routinely ask individuals in the office, in whispered voice, to write reviews on Glassdoor and encourage like-minded friends to do so. I was the company's first social media manager - I've very successfully moved on and have no dog in this fight other than to say that I was directly asked to do this, by Michael Fertik, on three separate occasions in one month. I never did. I was fired when I failed to do this. After four promotions in two years and heading up / revitalizing three different departments.
Their privacy product - rather they want to be known as Reputation, ReputationDefender, MyPrivacy, oDesk-on-the-sly, or some other product marketplace manipulation - has been through no less than four rebrandings in as many years. Why? A few years ago it started being outsourced overseas to India. Again: Reputation.com outsources their privacy work to India. Great for some things, not privacy.
The second prong of my firing was bringing this to Fertik's attention - he feigned ignorance of the situation, seemed to understand my concern and protest for the ethics of this particular outsourcing.
Folks, if you have self-respect, work at literally any other sales or tech start-up. I never engaged in their behavior, and things turned south fast when, in an effort to be profitable, they started pulling all the above games.
It was a stellar company with a great vision before the greed set in. Now it's not. Go find a true, revolutionary company in the City or SV that doesn't still play "start up" ten years later. You're going to get burnt at worst, have trouble sleeping at best.
