What happened to Glassdoor? It merged into Indeed in 2026

Glassdoor legally merged into Indeed, Inc. on July 1, 2026 and stopped operating as an independent subsidiary (Reworked, July 24, 2026). It did not shut down. The brand is still running, glassdoor.com still serves pages, and company reviews, salary pages and interview questions were all still loading in the first days of August 2026. What changed is corporate and account plumbing. The site now operates under Indeed's terms of use and privacy policy, and you sign in with an Indeed account instead of a Glassdoor one. If you landed here because something broke for you, the likeliest cause is that login change, not a dead website.

By UnchartedCareer

Last updated: August 2026

Is Glassdoor shutting down?#

No, and nobody has announced that it is. This is worth separating carefully, because a merger and a shutdown look similar from the outside and are not the same event.

A merger is a legal act. Two companies become one company, and the one that gets absorbed stops existing as a separate entity. That is what happened on July 1, 2026: Glassdoor merged into Indeed, Inc., which closed "more than a year of operational integration" between the two (Reworked, July 24, 2026). It changes who owns the servers, who writes the terms of service, and whose name is on the paperwork.

A shutdown is a product decision. The site goes dark, the data comes down, and your account stops working. There has been no such announcement for Glassdoor, and the evidence points the other way, which is covered in the next section.

It also helps to know the two were never really strangers. Recruit Holdings, the Japanese company that owns Indeed, bought Glassdoor in 2018, announcing a $1.2 billion cash deal in May of that year and completing it that June. So Glassdoor and Indeed have had the same parent company for eight years. The 2026 merger folded the last legal wall between them, and the direction of travel had been visible for a while.

Does glassdoor.com still work?#

Yes, based on what can be verified from the outside, and it is worth being precise about how we checked because Glassdoor makes this awkward.

Glassdoor's robots.txt is live and actively maintained, and it disallows crawlers from the review, salary and search sections. Those pages therefore cannot be verified directly from the outside, and a direct check would not settle what a person sees in a browser anyway.

What does work is the Internet Archive, which holds dated snapshots of what the site actually returned. Every one of these is a successful capture recorded after the July 1 merger:

Source: Internet Archive Wayback Machine CDX index, queried August 3, 2026.

Paginated pages were serving too, which matters because it means these are real database-backed pages and not leftover cached shells. The second page of Accenture's reviews and the second page of Anthropic's interview questions both returned successfully in late July 2026.

So all three of the things people actually used Glassdoor for were live a month after the merger. Reworked's reporting says the same thing in plain language: the Glassdoor brand continues and glassdoor.com remains active.

What actually changed for you?#

Three things, and only one of them is likely to bite you.

Your login changed. From November 2025, new Glassdoor users had to sign in with an Indeed account, and existing users were given until April 20, 2026 to link their accounts or lose full access (Reworked, July 24, 2026). Single sign-on now works across both sites. If you have not touched Glassdoor since early 2026 and never linked, this is almost certainly what you are running into. It reads like the site is broken. It is an account that was never migrated.

The legal terms changed. The site now runs under Indeed's terms of use and privacy policy rather than Glassdoor's own.

Anonymity was carried over. Anonymous reviews remain anonymous under the updated privacy policy, per the same reporting. Glassdoor's whole review corpus depends on that promise, so it would be a strange thing to quietly drop, but it is worth knowing it was addressed explicitly rather than left vague.

How did Glassdoor end up inside Indeed?#

The short version is that this took eight years and was not sudden.

• 2007. Glassdoor is co-founded by Tim Besse, Robert Hohman, and Expedia founder Richard Barton.
• May 2018. Recruit Holdings announces it will buy Glassdoor for $1.2 billion in cash. The deal completes in June 2018. Recruit already owned Indeed.
• May 2020. Glassdoor lays off 300 people, 30 percent of the company and half the Chicago office.
• March 2023. Roughly 140 more people go, about 15 percent of the workforce.
• February 2024. The final remaining offices in Chicago and San Francisco close as the company goes fully remote (Fortune, February 29, 2024).
• July 2025. Recruit Holdings announces 1,300 job cuts, around 6 percent of its HR Technology segment. CEO Hisayuki Idekoba's memo frames it around AI: "AI is changing the world, and we must adapt by ensuring our product delivers truly great experience[s]."
• November 2025. New Glassdoor users are required to sign in with Indeed accounts. A further small round of layoffs follows.
• April 20, 2026. Deadline for existing users to link their accounts or lose full access.
• July 1, 2026. Glassdoor legally merges into Indeed, Inc.

Read as a sequence, the July 2026 merger is the last step of a long consolidation rather than a surprise. The offices went in 2024, the staff went through 2025, the logins merged over the winter, and the legal entity went last.

Glassdoor vs Indeed: which one should you use now?#

They are the same company, so stop treating this as a rivalry and treat it as two products with different jobs.

Use Indeed to find and apply to listings. Use Glassdoor to look up what a company is like from the inside: employee reviews, salary ranges reported by people in the role, and interview questions submitted by candidates who sat the interview. In practice most people used Indeed to find the job and Glassdoor to decide whether they wanted it, and that split still works.

One honest caveat on the review data, which was true long before the merger and is still true. Glassdoor reviews are self-selected. People with strong feelings write reviews, and people who are quietly fine at their job usually do not. Salary entries can be years old with no obvious signal of how stale they are. Read the distribution and the dates rather than the average, and treat a company with nine reviews very differently from one with nine thousand.

What Glassdoor's interview questions are good for, and what they never did#

This is the part of Glassdoor that matters most if you are preparing for an interview, so it is worth being clear about both halves.

What it is genuinely good for: it is a crowdsourced record of questions that real candidates say they were actually asked, tied to a named company and usually a named role. Nothing else gives you that. Before a round you can get a read on the format, the themes that keep recurring, and how many stages people report. That is real reconnaissance, and it is free.

What it never did: tell you whether your answer was any good. A question bank is a list. It hands you the prompt and stops. It cannot hear you say the words out loud, it cannot tell you that you buried the point in the third sentence, and it will not ask the follow-up that a real interviewer asks when your first answer leaves an obvious gap. The same limitation applies to any list of questions, whether it comes from Glassdoor, a spreadsheet, or a blog post.

Those are two different tools for two different jobs, and the sensible move is to use both. Pull the questions from Glassdoor to find out what is likely to come up. Then practice answering them out loud, because reading a question is not the same as answering it. If you want the follow-up thrown at you on demand and a structured read on how you came across, that is what AI interview practice is built to do, as a rehearsal, with nothing shared with an employer.

How we checked this#

The merger date, the account-linking deadline, the layoff figures and the statement that glassdoor.com remains active come from Reworked, "Glassdoor's Long Merger With Indeed Is Finally Done," by Siobhan Fagan, July 24, 2026. The office closures come from Fortune, February 29, 2024. The founding, the 2018 Recruit Holdings acquisition, and the 2020 and 2023 layoff figures come from the Wikipedia entry for Glassdoor and the sources it cites.

The capture checks are our own, run on August 3, 2026 against the Internet Archive's CDX index. The archive is public and every capture above is dated, so any of this can be checked independently.

We have not verified whether Glassdoor is still accepting new reviews, whether the mobile apps still ship, or what happens to the review corpus long term, so we are not going to guess at those. If that changes, this page gets updated.