Glassdoor, a Sausalito, Calif.-based startup in stealth mode, has raised $3 million in a second funding round led by Benchmark Capital.
The company’s site has little to say about its plans, except that it will have “something live in mid-2008.” I called a Benchmark representative, but she was mum as well. PEHub says Glassdoor is a social networking company focused on employment conditions.
The company is led by chief executive Robert Hohman, formerly president of Hotwire.com and engineering team leader at Expedia.com, and Board Chairman Richard Barton, who is also chief executive at real estate site Zillow.
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Glassdoor adds multi-currency information, lets you take inside look at your salary in euros said:
[...] Benchmark-backed Glassdoor was founded in 2007 by Microsoft and Expedia veterans and launched its public beta in June 2008, with relative fanfare and rave reviews. It is designed to help employees, job seekers, employers and recruiters to simultaneously see unedited employee opinions about a company’s work environment along with details of pay, benefits and executive approval ratings. And now these payment details include multi-currency info, which is a significant step for Glassdoor if it wants to expand its service on a global scale. [...]