Reviews on job sites

Nite Owl:
Been looking about for a new job and looking at sites like indeed. Whenever I get to the reviews of the company, they are overwhelmingly negative. Are these reviews just left by disgruntled ex employees because there doesnt seem to be a decent employer in the land!

If you get and stay in a job, you never go back to the job site to say something positive.

If you leave a job (possibly one found a short time earlier through the same job site), there is usually no explanation other than dissatisfaction with the former employer.

Another explanation is that it is the worst employers who advertise and recruit externally most frequently, so even if all employees left fair feedback (good and bad), you’d still see bad employers and bad reviews massively over-represented.