Glassdoor and Indeed are now one company. Here is what it changes for your job search.

The Glassdoor Indeed merger completed on 1 July 2026. Your accounts have been linked, your terms of use have changed, and the second opinion you thought you were getting when you checked a company on both sites has quietly become a first opinion.

What the Glassdoor Indeed merger actually changed

On 1 July 2026, Glassdoor legally merged into Indeed as a single operating entity. Strictly speaking this is not a surprise. Both sites have been owned by the same parent, the Japanese group Recruit Holdings, for years: Indeed since 2012, Glassdoor since 2018. Operational integration started in 2020. The July date closed it.

It followed a hard eighteen months. Recruit Holdings cut around 1,300 roles from its HR technology division in July 2025, roughly six per cent of that segment, with a smaller round in November. Glassdoor’s chief executive, Christian Sutherland-Wong, left the business that same month. The company has framed the whole consolidation around AI and efficiency.

Glassdoor has not disappeared. glassdoor.co.uk is still live, still carrying UK reviews and salary data, and still running its Best Places to Work UK list. What changed is the plumbing behind it.

What is different for you as a job seeker

Your two accounts are now one account

Existing Glassdoor users were required to connect to an Indeed login by 20 April 2026 or lose access. Once the accounts are linked, you cannot unlink them without deleting one of them entirely. Profile information now syncs across both platforms.

One set of terms, one privacy policy

You are now covered by Indeed’s terms and privacy policy. If you signed up to Glassdoor in 2019 on the basis of what it promised then, that is no longer the agreement you are under. It is worth five minutes to read what you have actually agreed to, particularly if you have used the same email address for job applications and for leaving reviews.

The job listings are the same listings

Postings sync automatically between the two sites, so searching both is duplicated effort. Use Indeed to find roles and Glassdoor to research them. Treating them as two separate searches will not surface anything new.

The cross-check has gone

This is the change that matters most, and almost nobody is talking about it. Checking a company on Glassdoor and then on Indeed used to feel like getting a second opinion. It is now one opinion, from one company, under one moderation policy, with one commercial relationship with the employer you are researching.

The anonymity question, answered honestly

Reviews are still anonymous. Glassdoor has been consistent that it does not publish names alongside review content, and that has not changed with the merger.

The reason people stopped trusting that promise is a separate episode. In March 2024, users discovered their real names had been added to their Glassdoor profiles without being asked. In one widely reported case, the name had been taken from the “from” line of an email the user had sent to customer support. The change traced back to Glassdoor’s 2021 acquisition of Fishbowl, which required verified identities, and a corresponding update to the terms of service.

Glassdoor’s position was that a profile name and a review are two different things. Technically that is correct. It also explains why a lot of people deleted their accounts.

The practical point for you: Glassdoor’s own policy does not guarantee anonymity if a review contains details that identify the writer. If you are thinking of reviewing a team of six, assume your manager could work out who wrote it. Write about patterns, not incidents.

Glassdoor alternatives worth using for UK company research

No single site replaces Glassdoor. The answer is to use two or three, chosen for what you are actually trying to verify. These are the ones I point UK clients towards.

A few well-known names are worth a caveat. Comparably gives good culture and leadership breakdowns but its coverage is thin outside the United States. Fairygodboss and InHerSight are the best-known places to research parental leave, flexibility and how women actually experience an employer, and both are worth your time if you are looking at a US company. Neither has meaningful UK employer coverage, and Fairygodboss and The Muse both changed hands quietly in 2025 with significant staff losses, so I would not build a research habit around either persisting. Great Place To Work UK publishes UK rankings, but remember employers pay to be surveyed.

The most valuable source is not a website. It is one person who has recently left.

How to read a review page without being misled

1. Ignore the average. A 3.8 made of a hundred fours tells you something completely different from a 3.8 made of fives and ones. Look at the distribution, not the headline.
2. Read the newest negative reviews first. Older complaints may have been fixed. Recent ones are your best guide to what you would actually walk into.
3. Look for repetition, not intensity. One furious review about a named manager is a bad relationship. The same complaint about workload or promotion appearing across four years is a structural problem.
4. Match the reviewer to your role. A five-star review from a graduate in a different office and a different function tells you very little about a senior appointment in the division you would be joining.
5. Watch the timing. A cluster of positive reviews appearing in a single month usually means an internal push. A cluster of negative ones usually follows a restructure. Both are signals.
6. Cross-check against hard evidence. Filed accounts at Companies House, the annual report, regulator findings, redundancy coverage in the trade press and what current employees post publicly on LinkedIn.
7. Ask a human one neutral question. “What would you want to know before joining?” works far better than “is it a good place to work?” Ten minutes of that beats an hour of star ratings.
8. Require three sources. If a concern appears in only one place, treat it as a question to ask at interview rather than a fact.

One more habit worth building. Do your research logged out where you can, and be deliberate about which accounts you connect to each other. Now that a Glassdoor profile and an Indeed profile are the same profile, the research you do and the applications you make sit in the same place.

Common questions about the Glassdoor Indeed merger