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Fishbowl: Professional Network App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Moderation Needs Significant ImprovementI don’t particularly WANT to write a poor review for Fishbowl because I’ve historically enjoyed this app and think it’s generally a decent social media platform for professionals working in similar functions to me. That said, I feel I have to point out how poorly automated and moderated this app is. First, the automation. Every profile-related thing you do goes under manual review. You want to join Fishbowl by submitting your profile? Manual review. You want to change your title? Manual review. Almost every process that seems like it should be automated in some form for an app of Fishbowl’s size must pass through the moderation team. The moderation team is not quick to respond, either. I found I would wait days or weeks before finally contacting support to streamline the process. I’ve seen complaints of even longer waits posted to Reddit. Second, the moderation. I noticed a comment below about being automatically banned or shadowbanned on Fishbowl as a result of less than a handful of reports, and have to echo this as a major issue of the app. The biggest problem at this point is some toxic users are aware of how to game this system, and actively abuse it. This results in a cycle of normal, friendly users being shadowbanned for fighting back against trolls/bullies and innocuous posts being removed..Version: 5.8.0
✓ Horrible Moderation of UsersI’ve never left a review for an app in my life but here I am. The premise of this app is great and I really enjoy except the moderation of users is absolutely GARBAGE. If you are reported three times, you get permanently banned from the app. It doesn't matter what you say, if some clicks the report button, you get flagged and it's a strike against you. If someone doesn't like what you've said, they can go back and report every single comment of yours in a thread and you'll be permanently banned from the app. It's ridiculous. I'm not even talking about politics. If you have a differing of opinion, someone will game the report function and have you kicked off the app. The app also shadowbans. I was told by customer service. They blamed it on the algorithm but told me that their program will straight up make your comments invisible due to another user reporting you. This app really needs to get it together..Version: 5.6.3
✓ Wants too much infoThis app wants work email and work information. It feels very shady. I wasn’t able to back out after already giving an email and had to complete sign up to deactivate. Do not trust it!.Version: 6.18.0
✓ No bowls in my career fieldsDownloaded and signed up, could only go as student or professional- need to provide work email. I am a professional but currently between jobs, so had to sign up as ‘student’ with my still active student email. On sign up, you are told to choose some “bowls”- topics you think would be relevant and interesting to make up your initial newsfeed. I’m in life and earth science- there no bowls for that or anything closely related that I was able to see. I also briefly tried the company search section- no mining companies, and therefore didn’t even bother searching jobs. If you want to cater to a larger audience, consider broadening the classification of professional and adding more career fields. I am disappointed as I would have loved to engage with other professionals in my field. I see a lot of potential for the future, but not as it currently stands. I’ve deactivated my account at this time. 😔.Version: 6.17.0
✓ Requires sooo much personal information to sign up and then reveals itself as being uselessAfter being plagued by ads in Australia about anonymously reviewing your workplace.. I finally thought I’d give this a try.. What a waste! After navigating the BLINDING colours of the apps user interface and giving it an obscene amount of personal info (why do you need my birthday and verified work email?) turns out its basically just LinkedIn, but with bad colours and zero to offer Australians unless you work for a big multi-national..Version: 6.25.0
✓ Poor onboarding experinceOnce I started answering their initial questions and made a mistake, I was moved onto the next question without the ability to correct my changes 🙈 Even worse, once my account was created it’s pending verification so even then, I cannot fix these errors..Version: 6.13.2
✓ Almost Impossible to Delete Your Account, Privacy NightmareIn the age of privacy concerns, it’s pretty much a prerequisite to have 1) options to allow greater privacy for consumers and 2) be able to actually delete your account and any posts and other details you may have submitted. Fishbowl does not even have a way to delete old comments, and although they say on their FAQ on their website that there is an account deletion button in their app, there is not. There’s only an account “deactivation” button, which literally just emails the developers and opens a ticket that they seem to just ignore anyways. I find it hard to believe that an app that is predicated on anonymity could ever be successful with such anti-consumer and anti-privacy practices..Version: 6.3.1
✓ Terrible engagement guidelinesThe concept is cool in theory but the way they manage speech is nuts. Anyone can blindly report another person for hate speech or abuse and they’ll automatically get suspended for several days even if they didn’t say anything abusive or hateful. It’s absolutely subjective. And there’s a 3 strikes and you’re out rule. No way to petition a reversal. It’s just a Wild West of people saying things to get a rise out of each other and then reporting them when they do. So dumb. Plus, the community leans heavily towards white, elitist, privileged rich people who have zero perspective of the world and their white fragility is on display everywhere. The app is owned by Glassdoor, another terribly managed community, so it’s no wonder this one is becoming a similar toilet of artificial nonsense..Version: 6.15.0
✓ So hard to delete your accountI decided to delete my account, I google it, it's hard to find that option just to force people to give up deletion.Version: 6.17.0
✓ Useless & exploitativeJust fishing for personal information to sell. Scroll down and you’ll see that a lot of the positive reviews seem fake..Version: 6.27.0
✓ Beware of the easily triggered woke usersGreat app for anonymous sharing among others in your professional industry. But way too many people who present themselves as being woke AF who have zero tolerance for opinions that differ from their own. You will get reported for your dissent on a comment (that is positioned in an agree to disagree manner, and not personal insults) and only find out about it because your comment is magically nowhere to be found. This is especially true for anything political - even if the nature of the comment isn’t even in support of the supposed offending political view, but merely offering a ‘live and let live’ POV. It’s sad to me that the moderators are allowing other users to silence voices that differ from the popular opinion. We don’t need to worry about political fascism in our government when we’ve got totalitarian rules at play in private online communities..Version: 5.6.2
✓ Doesn’t comply with GDPR deletion requestDoesn’t comply with GDPR deletion request.Version: 6.22.0
✓ Should be 0 starsBEWARE. Locked out of account waiting for verification. Weeks of emailing their support@ email address, messaging them on Twitter and even tweeting at them with not one single response. I can’t even get in to delete my account. Trying to find a way to report these guys..Version: 6.3.1
✓ I have a bad feeling about this appLooks foggy. Asks for a lot of personal information. Just not worth risking it..Version: 6.16.0
✓ RedundancyI can’t use this app as I got made redundant and hence cannot use my work email to make an account and don’t fit the student category. Needs to be an option to fulfil all people searching for their next opportunity..Version: 6.17.0
✓ Keeps crashingApp keeps crashing. When trying to launch again it says to check the Wi-Fi connection. Only after shutting down and launching for a third time does it open. But even then it’s hit or miss as to whether you can access messages. Not worth the hassle and frustration.Version: 6.23.0
✓ Not super helpful.Very little support for blue collar careers. Seems like techies made an app for techies and 6 figure salary jobs..Version: 6.15.0
✓ Its ok - needs a lot of upgradesSo I am new to fishbowl and I feel fishbowl itself is new and the more I use it the more value I find. So I see a lot of potential in the app and the endeavor itself. I hope my review reaches the developers, marketing and other teams: The app needs a lot of improvement - 1. Once I click on a single notification on my phone all other notifications vanish so I cannot access them anymore. Yes, I can access notifications inside the app but guess what? all the fishbowl lives don’t show up in the in-app notifications! This is basic and needs immediate app updates 2. There is no way to access fishbowl live events later, if you somehow find a good past even there is no way to have it on your past events list or save them for later reviewing anywhere in the app - only the very generalistic ones are available under past events (weekly round up etc) - and you know what I am talking about here Marketing 3. App needs greater visibility as there are not enough groups to have conversations or learn from Product Development 4. Oh and I don’t even want to start with access on the app. If one is unemployed you all make it incredibly difficult to access bowls, posts and contribute! There are so many ways to verify credibility, so kindly use alternate methods and let users use them.Version: 6.29.0
✓ Not for CanadiansNot useful for Canadian… need more industries and more companies to be added.Version: 6.17.0
✓ Terrible signup processFishbowl has a terrible signup process which doesn’t allow you to go back and edit your choices after you select them, and forces you to finish the signup process before you can interact with the app in any other way. I work in education technology, which makes it ambiguous whether or not I should choose education or technology for my base category. I chose “teaching”, which must have been wrong, since my organization didn’t appear in the drop down, and the only option I was given was to continue the signup process and provide a bunch of personal information, even though I was stuck in a state where the app was unusable..Version: 6.5.1
✓ Doesn’t relateDoesn’t relate to anything even close to what I do Just people talking about random stuff really.Version: 6.20.0
✓ Wouldn’t register my student emailCouldnt even access the app because it said my student email wasn’t valid.Version: 6.4.0
✓ Average to badGood points. It fills the need Bad points. UI is garbage. Needs a search function. Moderators are overzealous..Version: 5.9.0
✓ Pointless outside USAFair enough it’s designed for the US, but either take it off the UK app store or make a UK version. I’m a teacher in the UK but when making my account I had to specify which US state I taught in… as a networking app that makes it entirely pointless for me..Version: 6.24.0
✓ Lack of editingI haven’t found a way to delete or edit a post made.Version: 6.29.0
✓ It’s not what you think it isI agree with other reviews that this app is unethical. Many of the features are not actually available or only available if you give up an egregious amount of personal data. The claim you can get any info anonymously is just plain false. I don’t see any value for this app other than to sell data back to employers. If you’re a student using this app to find out info on perspective companies you’ve come to the wrong place. One of the biggest draws is the supposed claim you can find out what others in the company are making so you can gauge your salary accurately. This is only accomplished by others non-anonymously sharing their salary and you sharing yours. You’d have more privacy talking with trusted co-workers than sharing on an app that’s going to sell data back to companies in order to minimize salaries of future employees and positions. My advice is to take all the other advice and stay away from the app as it’s not even worth checking out because of all the info you have to give just to realize you can’t find any info..Version: 6.27.1
✓ Fishbowl App a JokeThe app is a joke! I had signed up literally looking to be referred for jobs and to network with others, and either I get ghosted or people just put in comments hurting the chances of those like myself who are genuinely looking for a new job. On top of this, you cannot delete your comments or posts after a certain time. WHY??? Just let people delete their own comments! This app compares to plenty of fish for dating, but for business professionals and those who want to vent their company woes. I get that people want to vent on there, but what if companies start looking into Fishbowl and see what people post like they do for other social media? Is this something that Fishbowl considered? I cannot trust this app, and I highly do not recommend this app to anyone at all, and to the person who developed this joke of an app, I hope you fix the issues that I noted on here!.Version: 6.44.0
✓ Mobile needs horizontalI have a Yuge iPad. Why only vertical on mobile?.Version: 6.45.0
✓ Total bs that some In-house recruiters are only allowed read only accessWhy are some recruiters allowed full access while others aren’t? I’m an in house recruiter and have read only access, while many other recruiters are allowed to have full access to comment or stem art threads. I contacted customer service and was told that recruiters were not allowed to comment as to keep the app from becoming a recruiting app. Okay i disagree with that because recruiters actually have opinions outside of just trying to recruit people, but beyond that, there are tons of recruiters that have full access... just look into the “ask a recruiter” bowl. I just don’t understand why some have access and others do not. It’s not right..Version: 5.6.0
✓ Delete my account and stop harassing!I started getting automatic text messages on my phone from this app though I had never downloaded it. It said my coworker invited me. I started the process of downloading and setting it up like a fool when I realized it wanted to send emails to my work addy and verify me on linkedin. This made me unconfortable so I emailed them several days ago asking for the account to be deleted. (The app is stuck on asking me for personal info and I can't do anything with it.) Meanwhile I'm still getting these annoying text messages. I asked the ppl on my team if they sent it to me and they said no. (We are candid with each other.) I'm not sure how they even got my number. Could be *Phish*bowl is a better name?.Version: 6.3.1
✓ You’re risking your job for what exactly?I’ve seen ads all over Instagram for this app as a way to find out if you’re paid fairly. However to get a profile you need to literally state your real name and where you work and what your position is. It’s publicly available whatever you post unlike on Instagram/Twitter/Reddit where you can post privately or anonymously. Secondly, it’s pretty much Reddit without the anonymously made profiles. So think about that if you’re really tempted by the ads to find out info. Third, its full of consultants, young Lawyers, and IT professionals. If you’re outside the scope of those three professions, good luck getting them to understand your perspective as it’s M7, T14 or bust. Practically r/MBA or r/FinanceCareers on Reddit. Lastly, salary comparisons…… there are none. Again it’s full of consultants openly risking their lives asking people if they should leave their current firm for another place and what the offers are exactly. It’s not like glass door where you can just search the companies and the positions and filter as such. It’s just people looking to join the company nothing more. I’d advise making a throwaway on Reddit for the same exact info, don’t risk your job.Version: 6.20.0
✓ Couldn’t even log inTerrible app from the start. Was pushed an instagram ad to get it. Went to sign up, the app insistent I’m a teacher, wouldn’t let me unselect that industry. Once anything is selected then it’s done. I’m not a teacher so couldn’t sign up properly. Boring.Version: 6.45.0
✓ Fishbowl sell on your dataI signed up, curious about Fishbowl from an Instagram advert. The function shown in the advert was not available and instead, after supplying my work email address as required, I am now bombarded on a daily basis from marketing companies trying to sell me reports and services that I don’t need. This only started after signing up to fishbowl and my work email is not in any other public domain. Avoid Fishbowl, it’s a platform for the owners to collect data and sell on, not to benefit you as a user..Version: 6.36.0
✓ Party of trolls...Very disappointing to see the low level of most comments on this platform. Boring..Version: 5.10.1
✓ Doesn't show the salary rate as advertisedDoesn't show the salary rate as advertised.Version: 6.45.0
✓ You can't delete your account or postsIt was a cool app until I realized you can't delete your account and you can't delete your posts. SUPER SHADY. I tried to change my job title and while waiting approval from the app administrator, my profile has been switched so that everyone can see where I work and what I commented. The whole point is that it's supposed to be anonymous. Had I of known that trying to change my title would result in making my information public, I would have never tried to make the change. I've emailed twice for them to delete my account and I've heard nothing back. I'm very disturbed. I won't every use this app again. I wouldn't recommend this app for professionals because they are SHADY and do not make it clear that you can't delete your account at your leisure nor can you delete your posts. The lack of control of your account is extremely problematic..Version: 5.9.0
✓ ShadyAsks for way to much non-optional personal information. I don’t need you to have this. Also doesn’t support smaller companies, not even small just small compared to the rest of them, don’t waste the time downloading..Version: 6.24.0
✓ App issueThis app sends me a pin but doesn’t load once out in. I’m simply stuck at code verification..Version: 4.6.0
✓ Can't use with VPNCan't use the app with VPN, no thanks, i just uninstalled. Privacy is more important than this app.Version: 6.21.0
✓ Super shadyThis app doesn’t allow you to log in unless you give it access to your contacts for no reason. When it got to that point, I just deleted the app. Afterwards, I get an email from the app saying that I would be allowed to now logon without providing my contacts. This is data mining overreach and unethical..Version: 4.4.1
✓ WhyDownloaded and deleted it right away. Ask for a work email to register an account is very inappropriate.Version: 6.20.0
✓ Misleading advertisingThis app is a nice idea but doesn’t do what it claims too. If you’re looking for company insights to your company you probably won’t find it here unless you work for one of the big tech companies. Misleading advertisements on social media..Version: 6.16.0
✓ It’s a trap.I created an account on fishbowl approximately a week ago, and in doing so provided all of the requested information. I have since sought to delete some of that information - for example, my employer - and am unable to do so. When I tap into the employer field on the app, I am requested to input a email so the app can verify my employer. I entered an old email address with the hope that, in doing so, I could then edit my employer. I was wrong, and the effect was to change my employer from what I put originally to my university since the email I provided was my school email. I am still unable to delete my employer. Being unhappy with the lack of control over my account, I tried to delete it. It is also impossible to delete my account from the app. The website directs its users to the “send feedback” button in order to delete their profiles. When doing so, I received a message indicating my app was not configured for email, despite having two confirmed emails on file thanks to the employer issue above. I am greatly dissatisfied with the lack of control I have over my account, and find the difficultly in deleting the account to be very suspicious. I wish I had never downloaded this app..Version: 5.7.2
✓ App is faultyI have downloaded this app for the first time. It took 48 hours to get my profile verified and it was somehow rejected. No ones got back to me despite sending emails from corporate emails which also bounced back. The app keeps freezing constantly. Extremely terrible user experience. Will not be using it again.Version: 6.3.0
✓ Utterly useless.Like we needed another avenue of social media for small talk… thats’s all this is. My profile was ‘approved’ without using any real verification which completely undermines the professionalism of the app. Don’t waste your time..Version: 6.31.0
✓ Does not have mechanism to identify and prevent spread of misinformationFishbowl in its report menu provides a few kinds of post violations including offensive, stereotype, negativity, privacy and safety concern, but it does not provide an avenue to report false inform, and I do not believe they have a structured way of identifying such information and prevent possible negative impacts arising from those posts. As a public forum, it is their duty and due diligence to make an effort in that regard, as opposed to completely ignore that compared to other forms of violation. The anonymity of this platform potentially requires even more of that supervision, as users may be able to misrepresent themselves as experts in a certain area and spread misleading information that can lead to mental or physical damages to others..Version: 6.13.1
✓ Super disrespect of your time and attentionBy default it wants to send you constant notifications and email digests. It’s like a needy pest, don’t embrace this negative drain spiral..Version: 6.18.0
✓ America is not the only country in the worldPlease stop acting like it is. No option for ‘classroom teacher’ nor ‘primary school teacher’ under role. No option for ‘primary school’ under school type. “You can’t continue until you select your state”. I’m in the UK. Why would you pay to advertise an app so obviously suited to only Americans in the UK? Frustrated and rather put out..Version: 6.18.1
✓ Doesn’t list my company of 4500 employeesDoesn’t list a large company. Maybe it’s only Americans / global companies. Didn’t have my job title. Found it to be non useful information. Uninstalled within 5 mins of installing..Version: 6.20.0
✓ Becoming increasingly annoyingIt’s a good place to post anonymous things and get some occasionally useful responses. New features that allow random people (e.g. job applicants asking the same questions over and over) to tag your company and thereby send you a direct alert are very annoying, and there is no way to opt out of these obnoxious unsolicited notifications. Also has a flawed algorithm for flagging negative postings— many truly unhelpful and provocative troll posts persist, while several of my factual direct answers to questions have been tagged as excessively negative. This should be policed more accurately, since it can get you banned from the app..Version: 6.10.0
✓ Doesn’t accept .edu.au emailsAs title states, with no option to revert to linkedin.Version: 6.2.0
✓ Support email doesnot respondNot able to use the app as the app is not verifying my title from Linkedin. Has sent an email to support couple of weeks back and no response.Version: 6.2.0
✓ Terrible app, don’t waste your time.This app is AWFUL. It is NOT user friendly, at all, which is counterintuitive to its purpose. It ONLY caters to working professionals, NOT those like recent college graduates who are just staring out and currently exploring the professional job market. It autofills the company you work at without even giving you the option of filling it in yourself and can only be changed with the approval of the “Fishbowl Team” as if they are better equipped to determine where users work than the users themselves. You cannot connect your LinkedIn profile upon creating an account, as they need time to verify the validity of that as well, whereas other employment websites and apps let you connect your LinkedIn right away. The preliminary questions about your current industry and field are way too broad and don’t always reflect the professionals actual expertise. This app is a huge disappointment and needs a major overhaul ASAP..Version: 6.47.0
✓ Doesn’t work on iPad in landscape modeIt’s a good app and useful but why doesn’t it work in landscape mode on a iPad… feels like a ‘big’ iPhone app. It’s not really useable along side other apps in this state. Would give 4/5 stars otherwise..Version: 6.46.0
✓ Really buggyHave to open the app and scroll through the news feed for a couple minutes before I can go into bowls or double click into discussions. Otherwise, the app crashes and closes..Version: 6.44.0
✓ Good idea, still buggyMany kinks to work out, but I appreciate having an anonymous space to discuss work and career. It takes a long time to get your job title verified. Mine is still on Pending..Version: 6.42.0
✓ Issue with signupI can’t even use the app from the UK. Your setup instructions requires a .edu address whilst in the UK it’s .ac.Version: 6.0
✓ Disgusting privacy practicesDeleting my account. Here’s a small list of all the issues: Require first name, last name, picture of your face, cell phone number, company email, automatically opt you into receiving marketing emails on your WORK email, automatically opt you into making your profile public and able to be searched on search engines, purposely abusive and confusing privacy policy with no GDPR or CCPA compliance and telling you to change your privacy setting across 3-4 different services, the instructions to change tracking are in the policy but completely not existing in the app. This is a spying app meant to sell your information to recruiters. Delete your account. This company is TRASH..Version: 6.9.1
✓ Misleading Advert for the AppI thought this app was going to be like Glassdoor based on the video ad with the guy pretending like he is talking to someone who is getting underpaid in their job. This app is literally not that, it’s like LinkedIn but more private. There is also no way to actually compare salaries, the only way to is to make a post and ask people what their salary is. I could do this on my own Facebook. If the ads for this app was more honest my feedback would have been better. I would suggest the next ad you post for Instagram/Facebook please ensure it is more clear about what the purpose of this app is for.Version: 6.26.0
✓ Terrible verification processVerification process is entirely aimed at American universities/workplaces. Many universities outside of the USA don’t have student emails ending in “.edu” (for example, when I studied in the UK my student email ended in .ac.uk; I currently study in NZ and my student email ends in .ac.nz), making it impossible to verify as a student. When trying to verify as a professional, you then have to use a workplace email address. A verification process via LinkedIn would potentially be a lot better as this can verify your education or employment status..Version: 6.5.1
✓ POCKETS OF HATEFUL CLICKSI signed up for Fishbowl and went “fishing “ for individuals in the law and legal field to network with for special projects. Being a Business Coach and in Management, I thought it would be inviting to post inspirational and encouraging memes ( I discovered on LinkedIn ) to start conversations, and hopefully learn more about members on Fishbowl. THEY LYNCH MOB SAID I WAS CREATING SPAM 🤯 Yes, in the next moment, there were these clicks of presumably extremist white males who started a lynching campaign. OMG! I am telling you all the truth! I am thinking it’s It’s been a tough week for most professionals and workers in all industries. Lets Be Positive On A Sunday. . . . On A Sunday, WHO other than DEMONS could be offended by encouragement? This is the downside of Fishbowl and the sidetracking of not being able to make progress and not being able to initiate networking activities. Thank God I don’t work with these types of goons..Version: 6.32.0
✓ Data mining garbage appIt tries to access your contacts and if you initially prevent them from access then they will ban your account. WTH do you need my contacts for?? So much for being anonymous on this. Be careful they might sell your posts to your company, this app is super shady.Version: 4.7.0
✓ Job doesn’t even existI’m a recreation therapist running a recreation department in a seniors home. Part of allied professionals. I literally couldn’t even sign up. Delete.Version: 6.16.0
✓ Bad serviceMy account got suspended for absolutely no reason. Would not recommend this app..Version: 4.4.1
✓ This app sucksI got a random email from Glassdoor and when I tried to read the review that was left I had to download this app. Fine, I thought, except that after I did I still couldn't read the review. Waste of time, waste of developer resources. Deleting..Version: 6.40.0
✓ ShadyDoesn’t work with vpn. Tells you to turn it off and try again..Version: 6.18.0
✓ Horrible appShady data collection and spamming my work email.Version: 6.44.0
✓ Save your time and privacyLook at positive reviews. All bots. App is crap and has nothing to offer. Save tour time and privacy as this app is very intrusive. They have clickbait ads such as “you can find out how much people make in your company”. Bullkaka..Version: 6.26.0
✓ Not Professional, Flawed Reporting, Questionable ReportingThis app parades itself as a app for professionals yet it has a group within the app where all people do is talk about their kinks and threads where married men confess to cheating on their spouses. The app makes you sign up with your email or LinkedIn profile, which doesn’t make me confident that my information won’t be shared - intentionally or unintentionally. I’d love to know how this free to use app makes money. If you’re not paying to use an app you likely are the product. The most negative feature of this app is the process for reviewing and reporting comments. Trolls can go through the app reporting anything and everything to get posts/comments removed. In the Women in Consulting bowl a group of women ganged up on me because I had the unpopular opinion that just because I’m a black woman doesn’t mean that I’m a victim of racism. I was told that the sooner I learn that racism affects me the better off me and my future children will be. This wasn’t just one comment, the majority opinion on the post was trying to convince me that I’m a victim. I was shocked by the hostility towards me for having this opinion. Eventually my comments were reported and removed despite me being respectful. My only flaw was not believing I’m a victim and sharing that opinion on a Fishbowl thread. The reporting and removing of comments has gotten to the point that I no longer post on the app..Version: 6.47.0
✓ Misleading and disappointingIt’s nothing like it tries to sell on the ads. Finding your salary range is a treasure hunt since they fill the app with so many gimmicks it’s impossible to find anything. It’s more like a work forum to be able to say stuff of your company anonymously. Also the ‘content creators program’ felt like a scam to get you creating content for them for free, they don’t track your activity well and when you try to contact them they brush you off. Already deleted.Version: 6.46.0
✓ Doesn’t work if you don’t live in USAApp seemed ok. Then you realise it’s all based around Americans. Fact is our jobs are different… so it doesn’t work. Need location or it doesn’t work. Deleting.Version: 6.20.0
✓ Too many sign up questionsThis app just asks too much information before you can get started, it just feels like it’s asking too much. I won’t use it..Version: 6.38.0
✓ Lacks basic functionCannot edit or delete a post or comment once it’s been made??.Version: 6.12.1
✓ Privacy concernsTried to use the app- but the constant “give us this info” especially my work email. They say it’s to make sure I actually work there…. I’m not taking chances. I see a lot of post about “should I take this job or that” with ridiculous high salaries. Deleted the app within 10 minutes. I can use LinkedIn with less privacy concern.Version: 6.30.0
✓ Haven’t gotten access to app but my account is about to be inactive?I registered for an account in Feb 2022. I got an email this morning, May 27th 2022, saying my account is about to be inactive. Mind you, I have yet to receive an email saying I can access the app as I’ve been on the waiting list for over three months. Is that a joke?.Version: 6.23.0
✓ Elitist and exclusiveNow and again there’s a decent thread happening. I think it would be must more useful if it didn’t require your company email to join anonymously. Obv people have given it but my company specifically requires us to sign an agreement never to use our professional email for anything personal or to build a membership. Surely Fishbowl knows this is a norm for companies. They should allow every single person anonymity esp if you want to get the truth. People who are freelance who do may have a company email have the most information about internal happenings than anyone excepting HR. For equity there’s needs to be a policy for everyone to have access to all of the conversations too. Alas that’s not the case either..Version: 6.25.0
✓ Not what advertised….Version: 6.38.0
✓ Apparently only for the richWon’t let me verify account, because I don’t have a work email address. I linked fb and li accounts, and still won’t verify me. I have used Glassdoor for years, yet can’t get verified on fishbowl. It pretty much just looks to be a business fb page, but you can’t use most of it unless you are verified. So what is it really even good for. They sent me an email saying I can be verified using Facebook or LinkedIn. Clearly they didn’t read that l already did that above. It also said it required all professionals to verify with a business email. Well I know many professionals that don’t have business emails so we must not count. I have been a professional welder, fabricator, lift truck operator, mechanical and electrical assembler, carpenter, and much more. Just because these companies just communicate with us essential workers, with our own email and not a business email, doesn’t make us any less important or professional. We make up probably over a third of all workers in the US and deserve just as good of work peer to peer job search opportunities as anyone..Version: 6.34.1
✓ Student access is useless.You cannot like or comment on anything. How does one make connections, find job openings, or locate apartments or roommates if they cannot respond to the opportunities provided in bowls? I thought this app would be beneficial to help with the above listed reasons. Since I haven’t entered the workforce yet, I do not have a company email which is required to sign up. However, I do have a bachelors degree and therefore am no longer considered a student. Why is there not a middle option??? A “currently unemployed in your field, but seeking an open position” would be a well utilized option in the sign up process, I’m certain of it. I deleted the app immediately. Maybe it could be helpful when I have a job title after my name to create some respect for me..Version: 6.26.0
✓ Great Promise poor executionI was excited about this app as a common place to network and find strategies for growth of my consulting business. What I was greeted with are a massive amount of sexist and racist unmoderated chats..Version: 6.32.0
✓ SpamApp is centered around gathering your contact information as well as those in your phone. It will then spam your contacts with invitations to the app. Edit: I find the developers response disingenuous and misleading. I received a text stating I had been ‘mentioned’ in a conversation by a colleague. The app would not allow me to see this conversation until I signed up and allowed it access to my contacts, which is undoubtedly how the last guy got suckered into giving up my number to begin with. To make matters worse, I was never actually mentioned by the person Fishbowl referenced on the text message I received from them in any conversation. It was simply Fishbowls way of getting me to sign up. I believe this is called Spam..Version: 4.4.1
✓ Awful data grabbing, terrible uxDo not download this awful app.Version: 6.3.1
✓ Seems US focusedI didn’t find it useful as it’s US centric..Version: 6.16.0
✓ Pretty Useless - Misleading Ads - Should not be on UK APP STORPretty Useless - Misleading Ads - Should not be on UK APP STORE (all American).Version: 6.26.0
✓ A long way to goDoesn’t have my career field in the bowls (energy/mining industry). Everyone seems to be from US only. If you’re between jobs or self employed / freelancer you can’t sign up via email..Version: 6.17.0
✓ Misleading advertisementDownloaded this app as it claimed to be a platform where professionals share their compensation packages anonymously. Turns out this feature is almost nonexistent and this is just some sort of social platform of professionals. Please stop using misleading advertisement materials in Instagram..Version: 6.17.0
✓ What problem does this app solveI dont understand what is this app made to help users with? They are advertised as company reviews and insights but that doesn’t seem to be the case. App is also requiring a lot of personal data to be used and has long onboarding process. Anyways, I am removing it from my device..Version: 6.37.1
✓ Doesn’t work?I got into the app once and it was quite good, however now I can’t get it in and I don’t receive the text message to confirm my number?.Version: 5.10.1
✓ UselessTotally Useless.Version: 6.35.0
✓ Another very biased platformI was excited when this platform came out because I thought it would be a place to share open ideas with fellow teachers. Unfortunately it’s very biased and full of hate. Users who are very liberal or aloud time and again on post after post to personally attack anyone with a religious point of view or a conservative point of view. The attacks are often very personal and if you don’t agree with someone your post gets reported immediately even if there’s nothing offensive in it. There’s no appeals process so your post gets removed and you are warned. Meanwhile if you report personal attacks, often they are allowed to stand and if they’re liberal nothing happens to the post or the user. It just reached a point where I can’t even go on anymore without being personally attacked and then an innocuous post gets flagged and I’m suspended..Version: 6.23.0
✓ Not anonymousThis app pushes you really hard to not be anonymous. To me that’s a critical deal breaker for this kind of app and it makes it totally unusable. I don’t want to provide you with my real name or my work email - frankly you shouldn’t even be asking for that information..Version: 6.14.0
✓ It’s becoming an ideological cultI want to preface this review by saying that I did enjoy using your app. Regrettably, my account has been suspended indefinitely. Sadly, I find the moderation process to be arbitrary and uncomfortably biased/intolerant. Can you please explain the logic and unbiased method for suspending an account? Do you actively monitor all posts or just those who are flagged by users? If it’s the latter case, then can you explain the logic and unbiased method for identifying non-reported posts that violate your community rules? Again, you have a great app but you really should revamp your moderation process to allow for disagreements, even if heated. Otherwise, your user base will continue to become more of a ideological cult than an actual, diverse group of professionals..Version: 5.10.1
✓ Not enough industriesBeen waiting to get approved forever. Not enough industries covered..Version: 5.4.1
✓ Not what advertisedToo many privacy concerns.Version: 6.44.0
✓ Busy UI, rarely useful1. There is so much happening in this app, it’s more confusing than it needs to be and it’s obvious that it was trying so hard to not be LinkedIn that it ended up complicating itself to an unnecessary degree. No good, popular social media app is this complicated. 2. The vast majority of posts are should I take this $300k salary job or a $299k salary job with better work-life balance? I’ve very rarely seen useful content (people offering genuine advice on career progression, exit opportunities, negotiation, etc) but it seems the majority of what I see on this app is more of the useless posts. 3. There’re some weird technical issues, every time I try to post it says there’s an issue and I should try again later. It also doesn’t properly recognize my company name and there’s no way to change it. 4. It’s difficult to see what parts of your profile are visible or anonymous when using the app. And this is a major issue for this app. I hesitate to post at all because it’s unclear whether my profile is visible to my company and the settings don’t really provide a clear answer or option to control this..Version: 6.29.0
✓ Horrible contrast, pretty hard to read some thingsThis app is so great for what it represents, and I would use it so much more if only the contrast, fonts, colours and everything were just more kind to my eyes. Like literally everything is fluorescent for no reason. Open Facebook or Twitter, easy to read, and easy to scroll and read for hours. This, on the other hand, it like burns my eyes after maybe 5 minutes..Version: 6.19.0
✓ A bit fishyNo ability to prevent rude or condescending users when they’re comments are offensive or rude. Just like in any fish bowl one might expect bottom feeders..Version: 6.39.0
✓ Tricky App for PrivacyI downloaded the fishbowl app to understand pay in the market and I made my account anonymous because I wasn’t interested in commenting or writing a post. I just wanted to snoop. I made an anonymous user name for this purpose and used my personal email not my work email. Well somewhere along the few months I had the app, it somehow pulled in my first and last name and my workplace and updated my profile with this information. I never added this info myself, idk how it got in there. I’m really upset at this and deactivated my account. The only way to change it is to contact support which could take days! It’s a shame because it was a great app, but they seem greedy for user data. I simply wasn’t ready to share my identity in that app because I don’t know how my workplace feels about employees using it openly. I haven’t had these issues with the Blind app and I’ve been using it for over a year..Version: 6.20.0
✓ How do I unlock questions ??Well I’m still trying to unlock this section does anyone know how to do that?.Version: 6.29.0
✓ Unable to signup due to not having a western nameWhen I tried to sign up after seeing an advert in instagram, I was told my name is invalid, and I am unable to register, even though I logged in with my LinkedIn account.Version: 6.43.0
✓ Needs some tweakingIt’s a beautiful app. However, there’s no way to answer industry questions or company questions once you’ve left, or switched to an analogous job skills-wise in a different sector. I also highly doubt the anonymity component of the app, since I tried to enter my current company/email address and they said they had to verify it with my company. And then my company name is displayed on my profile as well as next to anything I comment on— come on y’all. This whole oversight defeats the entire purpose. No way would I use this and trust that it’s working as it’s supposedly intended to. I can’t delete my profile either which is a huge oversight and frankly I would advise not to download this app..Version: 6.17.0
✓ DO NOT GET THIS APPRequires you to put in personal information like either your work or school email without a way around it. The hype from the social media ads is fake. An app that was actually good wouldn’t have to push the marketing so hard..Version: 6.39.0
✓ Just stupidIt won’t let me create an account unless I give my work email. Well sorry.. you’re not getting it. Deleted and stupid. Done.Version: 6.22.0
✓ Poor community moderationThe community moderation process is one way with zero engagement. Lack of clarity on how to edit comments creates risk for data leak and loss. Be careful as your real name is always attached to the comment even if not visible to all..Version: 5.6.2
✓ Unusable if you are unemployedTo access the app you need to have a work university email. Which cannot do if you are unemployed, or never gone to university. Which is a shame as I was looking forward to using this app..Version: 6.23.0
✓ Don’t downloadThis app is a scam don’t download. I’d suggest just searching your job on search engines and find pay scales..Version: 6.19.0
✓ Spreads vaccine disinformation. Can’t delete your account.I have never bothered to write an app review before. This is my first. The app is covered in anti vaccine posts. If you try to correct them then the anti vaccine people abuse the automatic moderation and get your content removed. Just delete the app. It would be unethical to keep using it when they allow conspiracy theorists and anti vaccine folks take over the site. It is not a professional environment any more. Furthermore when they suspend you, you can’t even get in to delete your data. Super shady company. I regret downloading. You think it is anonymous but then they could abuse your data. Use Blind. Far superior app and much better policies. Now watch. Auto written response to this post asking me to contact them for a review. No real customer service..Version: 6.10.0
✓ Not suitable for CanadiansThe App contains a lot of US data and information, not suitable for Canadian professionals.Version: 6.16.0
✓ Fishbowl censorshipNoticed this morning Fishbowl censored a thread about the US election. No idea why, there didn’t seem to be any serious incivility, but the thread just disappeared behind an error page. None of the other threads I’ve been reading disappeared. I’m against any kind of censorship. If they pull those sort of shenanigans what else are they doing with our supposedly “anonymous” posts. Lost my trust in the company..Version: 6.4.1
✓ Sends you SMS spamAnd no way to turn off.Version: 6.10.0
✓ Where Do You Sign Up???Lol. Only 3 options for logging in… click either: “I’m a professional”, “I’m a student” or “I’m an existing user”. However, there is absolutely no option to sign up to even become an “existing user”. Makes absolutely no sense. If this is for the people to view reviews about jobs they’re applying for or whatnot… what kind of access are you really giving us? None. If we’re not either a professional, student or so-called “existing user”. Make it make sense. Clearly this does not. I give it ONE star. No more. Sorry but consider giving new users an option to want to join in order to view these reviews they work for so we can make better decisions on what jobs we decide to apply for. Thank you!.Version: 6.39.0
✓ Ridiculous ModeratorsFor some quick background, FB uses a three strikes policy with regard to content violations. First violation is a warning, second violation is a 72-hour suspension, and third violation is a lifetime ban. Violations can be triggered by someone flagging you or by the moderators identifying an issue (i.e., abusive language, negativity, marketing outside products, etc). The problem is that, when you get flagged, there is little or no vetting of whether the complaint is legitimate and no appeal process- the moderators just go ahead and book you for the violation. However, it’s becoming an increasingly poor kept secret that most of these violations are utterly ridiculous. For example, I’m on a 72-hour suspension for abuse for calling something (not someone) “dumb” and “good riddance”. There are hundreds or thousands of similar stories. Emailed asking to appeal the decision and heard zilch. Swim carefully, my friends, or just avoid this police state altogether..Version: 6.10.0
✓ Never challenge a liberal viewQuickest way to get banned is to post anything that can be seen as remotely conservative opinion or simply not agreeing with extreme left wing views, meanwhile liberals can suggest suicide, job loss, insults to their hearts content against anyone for any reason. Sadly with the recent election there has been a bombardment of such talk across nearly every board even boards where the topic should have nothing to do with politics. I was recently given a permanent ban for a one sentence response to someone demanding everyone change to liberal approved terms like chestfeeding instead of Breastfeeding. My exact response was “with everything else going on do you believe this is the most important issue in the US”. We are in a pandemic, millions out of work, black men are shot by cops, ultra conservatives storming the capital. But attacking people for not saying chestfeeding is the important issue of the day. Yeah ok. For questioning this persons priorities with a simple question. No profanity. Never called them stupid or anything negative just asked is this topic really the most important thing? Well apparently it is to Fishbowl. I have been permanently banned for it. The moderators for this App are the utterly intolerant ones..Version: 6.7.5
✓ Couldn’t even sign upI know I have a unique degree. I still decided to test out this app to see if there was any chance that other people from my profession/with my degree use this app. Well, the answer is no. How do I know that? Because I can’t even finish signing up. My major (marine transportation) is not listed in the drop down and therefore, even typing in my degree, that box is left red and I cannot go to the next page to finish signing up. I graduate soon so I am at the point in my academic career where I am deciding which job offer to accept. I guess I cannot use this app to help make that decision and I guess this app is not worth coming back to when I can be considered a professional.Version: 6.43.0
✓ A bunch of teachers talkingHave you ever been to a staff meeting and the teachers just wouldn’t stop talking? That’s what this feels like 90% of the time. “What’s your favorite thing about fall?” This was one question sent to my work email address via automatic emails - settings that you can’t change. That’s probably the absolute worst thing about the app, that you can’t turn emails off. Apart from that, it’s decent. It would be a good platform for anyone who really wants to anonymously connect with other teachers to throw information/questions out there that you wouldn’t want to talk to your district/admin about. Just really annoying that you can’t turn emails off or have them go to a personal account..Version: 6.7.2
✓ Advertises as a way to connect and share info butBut its just glassdoors version of LinkedIn/Twitter.Version: 6.19.0
✓ GDPR breachStay away from this app, even if you say do t use my email you end up with lots of spam, avoid!.Version: 6.42.1
✓ Great idea, poor executionThis app has a lot of great potential and content flowing through. Unfortunately, as others have pointed out there are tons of “spam banners” on this app who will just report tons of your normal/kind reviews and it will automatically ban people from the app. So the more active you are in the app and the more positive content you contribute the more likely you are to get banned from it. They are shooting themselves in the foot with this, they don’t have ANY real content moderation they just accept any “reported content” regardless of if the person reporting it is simply acting malicious by targeting kind users. Several colleagues of mine have said the same thing and have been banned. It ultimately encourages you to not contribute content and just observe ok the app. If fishbowl actually had good content moderation it would be a powerful enough app that I’d want to invest personally in it, but their priorities are elsewhere. Govern the “spam banners” or you’ll lose all the users who build content within your app’s walls..Version: 6.6.0
✓ Why does the app require my date of birth, full name, Company email, work niche etc.?Why does the app require my date of birth, full name, Company email, work niche etc.?Is it supposed to be anonymous why am I supposed to provide so much useless information. Not to say that it’s impossible to search for your specific job..Version: 6.17.0
✓ Don’t share personal informationDeleted the app as soon as it started asking for personal information… never even completed sign-up. No thank you. Not today..Version: 6.42.1
✓ Useless appFishbowl has numerous BOWLS you can join to discuss topics relevant to that particular bowl. Unfortunately, there is no one to monitor, moderate, or administer these Bowls. For example The Work Life Balance Bowl states it’s for professionals across various industries to discus relevant WLB issues. Yet people have turned it into Facebook & IG, seeking relationship advice, writing reviews about restaurants, employers, stores; seeking career advice; soliciting jobs; seeking legal advice; daily affirmations; memes; foodie pics & recipes; spam…which are reported & not removed, clogging up the Bowl with posts that don’t belong. Forget there are Bowls for these posts to be made in. The WLB Bowl used to be useful & now it’s anything but. Due to the lack of oversight by Fishbowl & what goes on in these Bowls, the app is useless..Version: 6.45.0
✓ Not very useful and HR targets youHR targets you if you use this and i got a nasty email.Version: 6.27.0
✓ Useless, just data harvestingThis app just harvests email addresses and LinkedIn permissions as far as I can see. I signed up over a month ago ago and my account hasn't been approved yet; all I get is exhortations to invite more friends to "open your fishbowl faster". Completely useless waste of time..Version: 2.2.0
✓ Can’t even sign upAfter being aggressively advertised to me for weeks on Instagram I finally bit. It won’t accept my student email address nor does connecting using Facebook etc work, and I don’t want to give my work email address?.Version: 6.18.0
✓ Needs further developmentThe sign up process is quite painful. I made a mistake in the name and wasn’t able to go backwards, had to delete the app Workplace should be anonymous unless the user wants it to be visible.Version: 6.20.0
✓ Unusable - constantly crashingThis week the application kept resetting my employer data, had to re-link with my employer email or LinkedIn almost everyday. Then it suddenly stopped working - it crashes immediately and systematically when I open the app and try to navigate between tabs (Feed, Bowls, Profile). Updating the app did not solve this bug. EDIT: Now I cannot even open posts after updating the app to the newest version (5th Nov)..Version: 6.48.0
✓ Straight Up Asked For My Work EmailThe first the app does is ask your work email to verify if you’re a precessional. But just below it there are other ways to login. So shady, like I’m giving my work email to god knows who..Version: 6.17.0
✓ Terrible AppTerrible app. Can’t login. Just keeps taking me to the same screen again and again..Version: 6.2.0
✓ Verification code takes ages arrivesHow does one sign in if the code takes ages to arrive.Version: 6.21.1
✓ Useless registration processSee an add (in Australia) so I signed up. Selected government work and verified my email. It only allows me to select what school I work at, and in what state in the USA. I neither work in a school, nor in the USA. Can’t go back and change industry, so can’t even register. Useless..Version: 6.16.0
✓ SucksDevoid of value.Version: 6.16.0
✓ ReneeI’m a professional (out of curiosity and months of ads popping up on my socials I decide to download and have a look) asked for my work email and gave it (my work email runs through gmail. It wouldn’t accept it. Even went back and submitted myself as a student as I know my uni email still works. Wouldn’t accept that either..Version: 6.19.0
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