Glassdoor Reviews API

Overview

This API endpoint allows you to retrieve reviews from Glassdoor. Here are some important things to know:

  • The Glassdoor API returns 10 reviews per request.
  • The order in which reviews are returned is by descending date(from newest to oldest).
  • You need to pass the language for the reviews you want to get. You cannot get reviews in multiple languages in a single request.
  • You can get all reviews from a single place by using the offset parameter.

Endpoint

GET https://wextractor.com/api/v1/reviews/glassdoor

Parameters

Parameter Required Description Example
auth_token Required Your API token for authentication. Once you register to Wextractor you can extract this key from your account's setting page. -
id Required A textual identifier that uniquely identifies a place in Glassdoor. This identifier is a number that appears in the url for the company in glassdoor. For example, if the url for the place in glassdoor is https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Microsoft-Reviews-E1651.htm the identifier is the number within the url: 1651 1651
language Required Return reviews that were done in the given language as defined by ISO_639-1 en
offset Optional This parameter defines the result offset. It skips the given number of reviews. It's used for pagination. (e.g., 0 (default) is the first page of results, 10 is the 2nd page of results, 20 is the 3rd page of results, etc.). 10

Example Request

https://wextractor.com/api/v1/reviews/glassdoor?id=1651&language=en&auth_token=your_auth_token&offset=0

Example Response


{
  "totals": {
    "review_count": 43152,
    "filtered_reviews_count": 41289,
    "overall_rating": "4.4",
    "culture_and_values_rating": "4.4",
    "diversity_and_inclusion_rating": "4.5",
    "work_life_balance_rating": "4.2",
    "senior_management_rating": "4.1",
    "compensation_and_benefits_rating": "4.1",
    "career_opportunities_rating": "4.2",
    "ceo_rating": "97%",
    "business_outlook_rating": "86%",
    "recommend_to_friend_rating": "91%"
  },
  "reviews": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Microsoft-RVW69762335.htm",
      "rating": "4",
      "title": "not bad",
      "pros": "big company nice logo bill gates",
      "cons": "too big impersonal bad consoles",
      "advice": null,
      "reviewer": "Sales Associate",
      "datetime": "2022-10-04T13:32:07.730",
      "language": "en",
      "id": "69762335",
      "culture_and_values_rating": "0",
      "diversity_and_inclusion_rating": "0",
      "work_life_balance_rating": "0",
      "senior_management_rating": "0",
      "compensation_and_benefits_rating": "0",
      "career_opportunities_rating": "0",
      "location": null,
      "is_current_job": false,
      "rating_ceo": null,
      "rating_business_outlook": null,
      "rating_recommend_to_friend": null
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Microsoft-RVW69758641.htm",
      "rating": "5",
      "title": "Great employer",
      "pros": "Interesting and varied career paths, great management, exciting products & services",
      "cons": "Organizational complexity, highly matrixed decision-making processes",
      "advice": "Simplify strategic decision making and get organizations closer aligned on big bets.",
      "reviewer": "Sr Program Manager",
      "datetime": "2022-10-04T11:55:17.380",
      "language": "en",
      "id": "69758641",
      "culture_and_values_rating": "5",
      "diversity_and_inclusion_rating": "4",
      "work_life_balance_rating": "4",
      "senior_management_rating": "4",
      "compensation_and_benefits_rating": "4",
      "career_opportunities_rating": "5",
      "location": "Redmond, WA",
      "is_current_job": true,
      "rating_ceo": null,
      "rating_business_outlook": "POSITIVE",
      "rating_recommend_to_friend": "POSITIVE"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Microsoft-RVW69757426.htm",
      "rating": "4",
      "title": "Very different team to team",
      "pros": "Big community, lots to learn, opportunities for impact",
      "cons": "Decisions are made quickly and slowly at the same time. Big decisions are back-tracked and then made again. Rocky leadership, lack of technical expertise. No sense of urgency.",
      "advice": "Understand your own limitations",
      "reviewer": "Technical Program Manager",
      "datetime": "2022-10-04T11:24:43.153",
      "language": "en",
      "id": "69757426",
      "culture_and_values_rating": "4",
      "diversity_and_inclusion_rating": "3",
      "work_life_balance_rating": "4",
      "senior_management_rating": "1",
      "compensation_and_benefits_rating": "2",
      "career_opportunities_rating": "4",
      "location": "Vancouver, BC",
      "is_current_job": true,
      "rating_ceo": null,
      "rating_business_outlook": "POSITIVE",
      "rating_recommend_to_friend": "POSITIVE"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Microsoft-RVW69756985.htm",
      "rating": "4",
      "title": "Great benefits and WLB",
      "pros": "-Very good benefits -Friendly and inclusive environment",
      "cons": "-Total comp is lower compared with other competitors but still good overall",
      "advice": null,
      "reviewer": "Software Engineer",
      "datetime": "2022-10-04T11:13:43.290",
      "language": "en",
      "id": "69756985",
      "culture_and_values_rating": "4",
      "diversity_and_inclusion_rating": "5",
      "work_life_balance_rating": "5",
      "senior_management_rating": "4",
      "compensation_and_benefits_rating": "5",
      "career_opportunities_rating": "4",
      "location": "Atlanta, GA",
      "is_current_job": true,
      "rating_ceo": null,
      "rating_business_outlook": "POSITIVE",
      "rating_recommend_to_friend": "POSITIVE"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Microsoft-RVW69756999.htm",
      "rating": "4",
      "title": "freeleance",
      "pros": "they provide travelling allowance and many other perks.",
      "cons": "the dont give much money to freelancers",
      "advice": null,
      "reviewer": null,
      "datetime": "2022-10-04T11:10:54.867",
      "language": "en",
      "id": "69756999",
      "culture_and_values_rating": "3",
      "diversity_and_inclusion_rating": "4",
      "work_life_balance_rating": "3",
      "senior_management_rating": "4",
      "compensation_and_benefits_rating": "3",
      "career_opportunities_rating": "2",
      "location": null,
      "is_current_job": false,
      "rating_ceo": "APPROVE",
      "rating_business_outlook": "NEGATIVE",
      "rating_recommend_to_friend": "POSITIVE"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Microsoft-RVW69754651.htm",
      "rating": "4",
      "title": "Had to do this",
      "pros": "A Great place to work",
      "cons": "There are no real cons",
      "advice": "None.  They are great and help you along the way",
      "reviewer": null,
      "datetime": "2022-10-04T10:13:29.523",
      "language": "en",
      "id": "69754651",
      "culture_and_values_rating": "5",
      "diversity_and_inclusion_rating": "5",
      "work_life_balance_rating": "4",
      "senior_management_rating": "4",
      "compensation_and_benefits_rating": "5",
      "career_opportunities_rating": "3",
      "location": null,
      "is_current_job": true,
      "rating_ceo": "APPROVE",
      "rating_business_outlook": "POSITIVE",
      "rating_recommend_to_friend": "POSITIVE"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Microsoft-RVW69754517.htm",
      "rating": "5",
      "title": "software developer",
      "pros": "it is very nice place to work.",
      "cons": "nothing is there to write in cons.",
      "advice": null,
      "reviewer": "Software Development Engineer",
      "datetime": "2022-10-04T10:12:05.813",
      "language": "en",
      "id": "69754517",
      "culture_and_values_rating": "5",
      "diversity_and_inclusion_rating": "5",
      "work_life_balance_rating": "5",
      "senior_management_rating": "5",
      "compensation_and_benefits_rating": "5",
      "career_opportunities_rating": "5",
      "location": null,
      "is_current_job": true,
      "rating_ceo": "APPROVE",
      "rating_business_outlook": "POSITIVE",
      "rating_recommend_to_friend": "POSITIVE"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Microsoft-RVW69728746.htm",
      "rating": "5",
      "title": "Overall great place to work",
      "pros": "I work in a group that is building a new product, so we don\u2019t have the stress of maintaining an existing system. Tons of opportunity for growth. Engineering management is good",
      "cons": "If you\u2019re not comfortable working in ambiguity then it can be tough. Senior management struggles to coordinate achievable goals.",
      "advice": null,
      "reviewer": "Senior Software Engineer",
      "datetime": "2022-10-03T18:43:59.543",
      "language": "en",
      "id": "69728746",
      "culture_and_values_rating": "4",
      "diversity_and_inclusion_rating": "4",
      "work_life_balance_rating": "5",
      "senior_management_rating": "3",
      "compensation_and_benefits_rating": "4",
      "career_opportunities_rating": "5",
      "location": "Redmond, WA",
      "is_current_job": true,
      "rating_ceo": null,
      "rating_business_outlook": "POSITIVE",
      "rating_recommend_to_friend": "POSITIVE"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Microsoft-RVW69728188.htm",
      "rating": "5",
      "title": "Great place",
      "pros": "Lots of good people, support, and opportunities to grow",
      "cons": "Steep learning curve, with a pretty poor graduate program.",
      "advice": null,
      "reviewer": "Graduate Specialist",
      "datetime": "2022-10-03T18:19:21.017",
      "language": "en",
      "id": "69728188",
      "culture_and_values_rating": "5",
      "diversity_and_inclusion_rating": "5",
      "work_life_balance_rating": "5",
      "senior_management_rating": "5",
      "compensation_and_benefits_rating": "4",
      "career_opportunities_rating": "5",
      "location": "S\u00eddney",
      "is_current_job": true,
      "rating_ceo": "APPROVE",
      "rating_business_outlook": "POSITIVE",
      "rating_recommend_to_friend": "POSITIVE"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Microsoft-RVW69726080.htm",
      "rating": "5",
      "title": "Good company",
      "pros": "Good place to work in MS",
      "cons": "Not much to say here",
      "advice": null,
      "reviewer": "Senior Data Scientist",
      "datetime": "2022-10-03T16:50:30.237",
      "language": "en",
      "id": "69726080",
      "culture_and_values_rating": "5",
      "diversity_and_inclusion_rating": "5",
      "work_life_balance_rating": "5",
      "senior_management_rating": "5",
      "compensation_and_benefits_rating": "5",
      "career_opportunities_rating": "5",
      "location": "Redmond, WA",
      "is_current_job": true,
      "rating_ceo": null,
      "rating_business_outlook": "POSITIVE",
      "rating_recommend_to_friend": "POSITIVE"
    }
  ]
}

Error Codes

Status Code Error Type Description
400 InvalidRequest The request parameters are invalid or missing
401 Unauthorized Invalid or missing API key
403 Forbidden Your account is out of credits
429 RateLimitExceeded You've exceeded the API rate limit(10 requests per second)
500 ServerError An unexpected error occurred on our servers. In these cases we recommend to retry the request for a couple of times. If the error subsists you can reach us to open a ticket.