Fishbowl: Professional Network App Reviews

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Wish I had known about this sooner. We all know the person (if not are the person) that won’t ask the question because they’re afraid of being laughed at or think they should already know the answer. So many people have had the job they want to know more about but don’t want their boss / coworker to find out they’re poking around because of the rumor mill that starts. Or the company that you had a terrible experience at but when someone asks for opinions on working for that company you feel pressured to lie or avoid answering so it can’t come back that you said anything negative. This app solves it all. Honest business people asking honest questions and giving honest answers to help one another. Plus the live chats with C suite execs and experts in different fields. This app is for anyone that is trying to learn how to career change, fulfill their career goals or just have a place to ask the questions you’re afraid to ask since you don’t have to share your identity. Just wish I knew about it sooner and that it had been available when I first entered the marketplace.

Good way to connect with other educators. I’m in the educator community and it’s been fun connecting with others across the country. It’s more welcoming than “teacher gram”. Sometimes networking and advice can be limited because education differs so much from state to state, but everyone in the community has a common ground. When it comes to topics like behavior, or work-life balance, those are universal. Some logistical things with the app bug me—like double tapping to add punctuation in a post will add a space between the final word and end mark. This doesn’t show until your post/comment is posted and as an English teacher that really bothers me. Characters in posts are limited—wish there were more! It’s also tedious to get back to the notifications screen after checking post updates. The back button will send you to the “bowl” instead of simply back to where you left off.

Becoming increasingly annoying. It’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.

Promising but not quite there. Interesting place to discuss work and non work topics anonymously. A couple of things that could be better: the notification is overly aggressive, would be nice to be able to tweak settings. Also when you see a response to your comment, the app doesn’t show you the whole thread, and if need it you’ll have to go back to the bowl to find it. Lastly, the activity on company-specific bowls are on the quiet side - I’m new and don’t know how much I should expect it to grow. My company has 100k employees. If the bowl is still quiet after a few months especially on quality topics, I’ll probably stop using frequently.

Best Place to Network. Thanks to Fishbowl, I’ve had a chance to grow my professional network in a far more meaningful way than any other app. Being new to the job market has proved challenging (especially during COVID), but Fishbowl has provided me with a professional safety net to get job recommendations, ask questions, and get valuable insight about how to best leverage this down time. It’s honestly one app I feel like I’m not just wasting my time on — grateful for the valuable insight and connections. Glad this app exists!

Ridiculous Moderators. For 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.

Terrible signup process. Fishbowl 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.

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!

Love the app, lacks user friendliness, no transparency on getting reported. I absolutely love the app and the concept. Gives out a lot of information which you can’t get otherwise. My only struggle has been the font size and slow performance. Hangs at least thrice a day. But most importantly, it’s too small of a font to type and keep reading long articles. I moved to iPad but the font remains the same. You should come out with a web version for better readability and better engagement of the audience. Just my two cents. Update: I have major concerns with their reporting function. There is no transparency and you never know what you get reported for. They just revoke your access for messaging which is a bummer. I would appreciate if the team is transparent on red flags and warns early than revoking the access without any notice. Update - the customer support is not responsive and doesn’t give valid and transparent answers. After providing so much information to people, it’s practically useless if you can’t make full use of it. The app can do much better.

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?

Beware of the easily triggered woke users. Great 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.

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

Great idea, poor execution. This 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.

Useless app. Fishbowl 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.

Astonishing Forum for Real Help, Real Connections. Join Fishbowl and plunge into the underwater bubbles of the real lives of professionals in your field m, in your city, in your realms of interest. Fishbowl forums in BigLaw brazenly smashed the First Rule of Fight Club and finally there are safe,” spaces, helpful people, who have empathy and advice. If you want to change careers or explore another, just apply to that bowl. You’ll be surprised how welcoming and relevant they are. Join the bowl for your city, or the city you’ll be moving to, or considering moving to. Get into the social scenes, cultures, housing options, make connections, make friends. Post or respond in the Bowls. It’s a paradigm changing space. Take the plunge!

Enjoy the Conversation. I really enjoy the conversations I have with other educators using this app. For the most part, people stay respectful of other people’s ideas. I learn how differently districts operate and I get a larger world view of my industry and the issues that we have to contend with. I don’t like arrogance and people who put others down just to win an argument. They have already lost in my opinion. So I take what I can, participate when I can, and learn from my colleagues in a collaborative way. Isn’t that what we are supposed to be doing?

Disgusting privacy practices. Deleting 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.

Spam. App 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.

You can't delete your account or posts. It 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.

Apparently only for the rich. Won’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.

Another very biased platform. I 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.

Censors speech. They’ll remove posts that go against your company leadership and flag it as violation of community guidelines, no matter if the comment is constructive or innocuous. People have screenshot comments or posts in our company bowl that have been taken down for simply raising awareness of bad leadership behavior or impending layoffs. It’s clear Fishbowl can be brought to “cleanse” data. They’ll also ban you after three flags, and considering they’ll qualify anything that gets reported as a violation you really don’t have to say much to get banned. This app is 100% censored and does nothing to delineate simple forms of expression vs truly offensive content- I have entirely disengaged from the platform and use it on rare occasions. I won’t be surprised if they end up selling user data soon enough.

Moderation Needs Significant Improvement. I 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.

Students NEED This App!. As someone who has changed her college major six times, the best career advice I could get was the top hits from typing in “What is it like to be a (insert career)?” on Google. I was absolutely aimless in deciphering my career path and had no information to guide me. Fishbowl takes you directly to the source, and you get to talk in real time with working professionals within certain industries and companies. Your name is anonymous, so you’re able to be as candid as you wish. I recommend Fishbowl to all of my college friends!

Great platform to connect for college students!. As a college student, it’s important that I make connections early on to succeed in the working world. I have found that Fishbowl has allowed me to make these connections and have greater access to knowledge in fields that I want to pursue. For example, I’m interested in working in finance and fishbowl’s finance section has given me so much more insight in this industry. People speak open and honestly about the positive and negative aspects of their jobs/industries, which is extremely valuable!

Student-user. This app is the perfect way for professionals to connect in a more laid-back, social way. I have appreciated the more relatable posts asking for advice or tips on career goals. This app has been a huge help in figuring out what I may want to do in my career following college, since I have been doing e-learning throughout COVID-19. Students today are so competitive and caught up in getting ahead of their peers. Fishbowl combats that sense of competition with the aspect of anonymity and relaxed posting style. I will definitely continue using this app as I discover new career paths I may be interested in!

Does not have mechanism to identify and prevent spread of misinformation. Fishbowl 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.

I don’t usually write reviews. ...but Fishbowl deserves the five stars. This app is amazing. It actually is a place where down to earth professionals share and collaborate. A couple of the live talks I’ve attended are in my top ten ‘talks’ including whatever you can find online — and the fact that you can ask really talented and accomplished people questions conversationally is awesome. I’ve had great conversations, learned things applicable to my day to day at work, and have received relevant and actionable advice on things from advancing my career and building a company, to strategy and tactics. Honestly, the only critiques I have are for them to add features to the live talks. Maybe allow reactions and record it. Though the fact that you can’t do those things might be what makes them flow so well, it’s truly and thoughtfully moderated. And it makes the experience unique and unrepeatable. Great draws. Okay, I’ve raved so much about Fishbowl I think I need to tell you: I don’t work for the company nor do I know anyone who does. I found the app randomly, I think it was in an article in the App Store. Random. Good search/marketing maybe. Either way, so glad I found it.

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.

Almost Impossible to Delete Your Account, Privacy Nightmare. In 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.

POCKETS OF HATEFUL CLICKS. I 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.

Its ok - needs a lot of upgrades. So 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

Fishbowl App a Joke. The 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!

A bunch of teachers talking. Have 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.

The Professionals Reddit!. The perfect place to learn anonymously! *Warning Longwinded review ahead Do you have a question you aren’t comfortable asking your team mates? Do you want to help others learn more about your firm? Do you just want to look at memes geared towards a niche group? Do any of the questions sound like you? Well you are in the right place, ask and interact anonymously or share your entire profile for a different experience completely. I was a little hesitant to join at first but once I joined the community my fears melted away. I can say this is the best resource to quickly interact with intelligent and knowledgeable professionals around any topic you can imagine. Like with most apps of this nature you will encounter trolls but I’d say the 80-20 rule definitely applies here with the 80 being the individuals who truly want to help. I have noticed myself using this app more often than reddit and LinkedIn now, mostly as a lurker! So what are you waiting for join us here in the fishbowl! who knows we may interact with each other, and I hope we do!

Fun to use, insightful, a little depressing at times. Overall, I am a fan. I think the network is solid and provides good insight. At its best, it is a source of information and insight from an authentic source. At its worst, it is a window into the sad realities of our industry. Luckily, all that is padded by a healthy dose of sarcasm. Being a contributor of the latter, my posts/replies can land wrong and become subjects of misinterpretation resulting in warnings, flags, or even banishment. While some have been warranted others have been unfairly misinterpreted without the option to dispute. What if a user is maliciously reporting someone? I don’t believe this to be the case in my instance. I may have still been in the wrong but it would be nice to have been able to dispute.

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.

Terrible engagement guidelines. The 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.

Praise. So I actually never leave reviews but I feel like this app deserves one. If you’re looking for a place to openly and freely ask your work related questions that you may not feel comfortable asking your coworkers, this is definitely the app for you. I found out so much information regarding a career field I am interested in within 48 hours of downloading the app. It is user friendly and so helpful. Great platform to connect and ask those not so easy questions to complete strangers. I’m absolutely enjoying myself. I would suggest joining multiple “bowls” the information is great.

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.

Not Professional, Flawed Reporting, Questionable Reporting. This 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.

Horrible Moderation of Users. I’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.

Couldn’t even sign up. I 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

Needs some tweaking. It’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.

Never challenge a liberal view. Quickest 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.

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.

Tricky App for Privacy. I 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.

Culturally important platform in a changing profession. As a practicing, law firm lawyer for 40 years (more than half of which I spent as a partner in AmLaw 25 firms), I seek to provide a perspective rather than an opinion. I believe that this platform is unique and there are few who come to this platform with my level of experience, both in years and in biglaw. I want to help young lawyers to achieve their goals and to avoid the mistakes I made. For those purposes Fishbowl is very, very well-designed and user-friendly.

It’s becoming an ideological cult. I 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.

Elitist and exclusive. Now 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.

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Horrible contrast, pretty hard to read some things. This 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.

Requires sooo much personal information to sign up and then reveals itself as being useless. After 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.

Poor community moderation. The 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.

Average to bad. Good points. It fills the need Bad points. UI is garbage. Needs a search function. Moderators are overzealous.

Doesn’t relate. Doesn’t relate to anything even close to what I do Just people talking about random stuff really

Not anonymous. This 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.

Useless registration process. See 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.

App issue. This app sends me a pin but doesn’t load once out in. I’m simply stuck at code verification.

Doesn’t accept .edu.au emails. As title states, with no option to revert to linkedin

Doesn’t list my company of 4500 employees. Doesn’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.

A long way to go. Doesn’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.

Needs further development. The 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

Why. Downloaded and deleted it right away. Ask for a work email to register an account is very inappropriate

Renee. I’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.

Straight Up Asked For My Work Email. The 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.

Redundancy. I 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.

No bowls in my career fields. Downloaded 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. 😔

DO NOT GET THIS APP. Requires 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.

Support email doesnot respond. Not 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

Too many sign up questions. This 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.

Can’t even sign up. After 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?

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Can't use with VPN. Can't use the app with VPN, no thanks, i just uninstalled. Privacy is more important than this app

Lacks basic function. Cannot edit or delete a post or comment once it’s been made??

Good app. It’s a good networking professional app if you are looking to do that

It’s not what you think it is. I 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.

Not what advertised. Too many privacy concerns

Privacy concerns. Tried 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

Should support landscape mode on IPad. Devs, could you please, for the love of god make your app work on landscape mode for iPad users out there? This is so critical when we use keyboard on our iPads. Thank you!!

Useless & exploitative. Just fishing for personal information to sell. Scroll down and you’ll see that a lot of the positive reviews seem fake.

This app sucks. I 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.

Not very useful and HR targets you. HR targets you if you use this and i got a nasty email

Lack of editing. I haven’t found a way to delete or edit a post made

Super disrespect of your time and attention. By default it wants to send you constant notifications and email digests. It’s like a needy pest, don’t embrace this negative drain spiral.

Not enough industries. Been waiting to get approved forever. Not enough industries covered.

Don’t download. This app is a scam don’t download. I’d suggest just searching your job on search engines and find pay scales.

Shady. Asks 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.

Advertises as a way to connect and share info but. But its just glassdoors version of LinkedIn/Twitter

Tech Recruiter/Sourcer. It’s a good place to get real details and have conversation about the work environment

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?

Wants too much info. This 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!

Good idea, still buggy. Many 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.

So hard to delete your account. I decided to delete my account, I google it, it's hard to find that option just to force people to give up deletion

Quite interesting. A great app to connect with professionals and learn about industries

Not suitable for Canadians. The App contains a lot of US data and information, not suitable for Canadian professionals

Doesn't show the salary rate as advertised. Doesn't show the salary rate as advertised

Great!. Love this app great place to connect with fellow lawyers

Not super helpful.. Very little support for blue collar careers. Seems like techies made an app for techies and 6 figure salary jobs.

Not what advertised. …

Poor onboarding experince. Once 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.

Save your time and privacy. Look 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.

Just stupid. It won’t let me create an account unless I give my work email. Well sorry.. you’re not getting it. Deleted and stupid. Done

Keeps crashing. App 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

Shady. Doesn’t work with vpn. Tells you to turn it off and try again.

Don’t share personal information. Deleted the app as soon as it started asking for personal information… never even completed sign-up. No thank you. Not today.

Job doesn’t even exist. I’m a recreation therapist running a recreation department in a seniors home. Part of allied professionals. I literally couldn’t even sign up. Delete

What problem does this app solve. I 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.

Party of trolls.... Very disappointing to see the low level of most comments on this platform. Boring.

Best app ever!. One of the most beautiful apps I’ve used in a while. Very responsive, insightful and educating.

Busy UI, rarely useful. 1. 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.

Bad service. My account got suspended for absolutely no reason. Would not recommend this app.

Like Reddit but for professional stuff. Great way to see what people are deliberating in similar situations and get advice for things without worrying about backlash.

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Very helpful. This is a great way to connect with other in other companies and be as honest as possible on how things are going in the workplace.

Data mining garbage app. It 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

Super shady. This 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.

Horrible app. Shady data collection and spamming my work email

Great Promise poor execution. I 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.

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.

Not for Canadians. Not useful for Canadian… need more industries and more companies to be added

Useless. Totally Useless

Sucks. Devoid of value

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A fun change of pace. Been engaging in specific communities and it’s honestly a pretty good and surprisingly interesting way to spend time. especially when you can find people and posts related to your specific industry. it’s great that a new social platform is actually genuinely fun to use and i’m interested in returning when im off it

A biased dumpster fire.. I was put on 72 hr ban once, served my time. Then was put on 72 he ban a week later for the same comment that was already moderated. I deleted the app so I wouldn’t be disappointed to see I was still softbanned for sticking up to some bullies I reported and were never moderated. I spoke up and ended up being penalized. Now that I reinstalled the app it seems I lost all my karma, messages and past posts. How about designing a log in function? This app is awful and your moderation team needs more training. Don’t not moderate someone who calls others racist bigots without proof. Yet someone replies “You must be a joy to work with.” And they’re moderated.

Unresponsive Support. I have a BIG ISSUE with the fact that support doesn’t respond to several account deletion requests and everything is set to “manual review” for what seems like forever. I feel like I’ve created an account on an app that is tied to my career (very sensitive information) that I do not have the option to delete at will. Further, I asked for my account to be deleted due to privacy concerns and I can’t get an answer back. I wish I had never created an account on this app. Also, just because you’re anonymous on this app doesn’t mean that people are stupid and can’t correlate information to figure out who you are.

For Neophytes!. This platform is not worth it except for high schoolers contemplating college. Here and there you may find a useful bit of information, however for the most part it is people with high angst, anxiety and bad information about how to find a job. Also the platform locks your profile and other details. What if you have two degrees? Can't add that. Cannot add multiple certifications either. Honestly, it's my bad for signing up on this platform, it is too juvenile for my experience, so I am going to delete my account.

Great Idea, Some Flaws. Love the anonymous forum. It’s Reddit-esque. The issue I am having is I accidentally submitted a new title name and it has been pending for over a week. Meanwhile, you cannot post anything. The developer needs to either find a system to efficiently approve title changes, or remove the system as a whole. Restricting users at this length is a turnoff and will possibly disinterest users to an extent of deleting the app.

No Way To Block Trolls. This app can be helpful, but it’s missing security features to be able to feel safe in a social space. Specifically, there is no way to block users and no transparency on who bowl leaders are. Like any social media, there are users who are excessively negative or troll others. Sometimes you can tell the same person is trolling a group in different posts because of their badges/awards designation. Users need to be able to block them. Subsequently, there should be designation for Bowl Leaders so users can see when a leader is the troll, and leave the bowl if they choose.

Banned for no reason. The app was decent but there is no review process for flagged comments. Anyone can flag your comment and they put a strike on your account without even reviewing the comment. I had multiple comments flagged and removed in a single day and none of my comments were offensive. I was answering questions about investing. I contacted support and they just said they will monitor. I assume the strikes on my account never got removed because I eventually got banned and was never given a reason. I contacted support asking them to provide the comments that violated community guidelines and they never responded. I followed up again and got no response. Unacceptable.

Use it as much as Instagram. Fishbowl has been extraordinary for me and my colleagues! The ability and opportunity to share experiences has taken “sharing” to another level with Fishbowl. I at one time thought LinkedIn was unique and offered incredible value until I found Fishbowl. I unequivocally recommend this app—you won’t regret it!

Free Speech not longer possible. Fishbowl has really cracked down on comments in 2024 and companies are reporting employee comments and getting people suspended on Fishbowl to crack down on negative employee comments now. The slightest thing, like a sarcastic “Welcome to X” comment will be reported for violating “Community Guidelines “ and removed even though it’s well within those guidelines. Fishbowl is becoming like Yelp where businesses have all the power to police and remove comments they don’t like. 3/9 update - pitiful response from the developer. My comment that was removed did not violate community guidelines. I’m not the problem - your review process is the problem - as many reviews here have noted.

Great for accurate salary info. I just read that half of advertising professionals are on Fishbowl so I guess I’m late to the game. It’s like if LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook groups had a four way baby. More useful tho since it’s only people in the industry and you can get accurate answers. The salary discussions are valuable. Edit: Fishbowl has been my safe haven during the pandemic. Work has been more stressful than ever, so the comradery from industry peers has been invaluable.

A community you will want to engage with. Unlike other social media networks geared towards professionals, this one does it right. Different layers of anonymity help encourage thoughtful conversation at all levels of the totem pole, from interns beginning in their career to seasoned veterans. Specific groups help make the conversation more tailored and personal like the one for POC’s. Highly recommend checking out if you’re at all interested in career development.

Redefining professional. Times have changed especially with the #MeToo movement and it's necessary to challenge traditional and outdated workplace practices and regulations. Fishbowl is a place where professionals are finally talking about taboo topics like the wage gap, promoting diversity, gender representation, etc. It's only through initiating these much needed convos that we can stimulate change and better practices. I do hear convos from Fishbowl being talked about in my office now and hope it influences change down the line.

Not anonymous. Terrible app with misinformation in their ads. It is NOT anonymous. It makes you pick your company but if you work in private practice or a non corporate business you can’t select yourself. Obviously, pick something you don’t currently work at because otherwise it’s not even remotely anonymous. It also requires a work email for things and doesn’t allow gmail as an email despite that being many people’s work email! Do they realize also that corporate emails are watched? This is a police state type of app designed to help bosses watch you like a hawk.

Their support team is really bad. I was a student when I started so I could only post in the student bowl. I have since graduated and swapped everything for my work email. I’ve been trying to get full access to the app for about 2 months now and still to this day I can only post on the student bowl. Completely worthless if you’re trying to talk to other professionals and get their insights. Their support team only responds occasionally and takes forever even when they do respond. Pretty sure it’s just one over worked guy with bad internet access in Canada or something

Great for the working world AND STUDENTS!. I am a college student and an avid fishbowl user! The insights this app provides for students is exceedingly valuable as a means of learning about particular career fields and forming a career path. Further, college students are trying to navigate internships and jobs during a very unstable time in the job market and the discussions on fishbowl have been super insightful. I really do recommend this app to everyone, it is such a great asset for college students and working professionals!

Review on COVID-19 circumstances. I really enjoy sharing information and seeing all and opposite results. It is not for me trying to find answers but see and understand on community feelings and in the education system right now among students, teachers, staff and administration. Mainly I am concerned on overall health and well-being of EVERYONE’s physical and mental outcomes on this new universal plague.

Good app that could do with a couple of added features. Great experience. It’ll be better if we get 1. A ‘Copy’ feature that can help retain valuable information from fellow 🐟 posts. 2. When I click on a notification for a long thread that I have already read before, take me directly to the post for that notification or at least to the bottom of the thread so I don’t have to keep scrolling all the way down.

Bad. Seemingly no purpose.. Claims to connect you anonymously with coworkers to talk about the company but discourages people from posting complaints. Have to have 10+ coworkers signed up. Also randomly removed my company? It’s a huge global workforce - no idea why on day my profile has some “default” company applied. All followers/following now set to 0. No company info. Did my company somehow delete themselves? Doesn’t seem built for the employee. Glassdoor and LinkedIn are much more useful. This feels like just a space to serve ads to corporate level people without providing any real service.

Don’t get unless you want them to spam your entire company. Got fishbowl out of curiosity. Didn’t realize they’d be pestering every other person with my same role for months at my company without my knowledge trying to get them to join. Don’t even know how they got all their emails. I understand needing to recruit users but this is not the way to do it. It was annoying and left me really uncomfortable. Had to not only delete the app but also my account. Will not use again in the future and especially would not recommend Thai for anyone working at small-mid sized companies.

A Valuable Professional Resource. This is the best app from being able to get insight from others in my industry about how to navigate challenges at work, negotiate salary, and generally get ahead. I must say that I appreciate the supportive and authentic community. I’ve also met some very cool people and new friends through Fishbowl! A great resource whether you need help, want to pass the time, or want to expand your network!

Awesome app, with one caveat. Great forum for pretty much any career related questions, thoughts, insights, etc. In many scenarios, it is actually one of the best resources I can think of (job switch info, salary info / negotiations, minor company-specific questions). However, the developers have built-in way too many notifications. These really need to be pared down. I’ve had to turn all notifications off because it’s just ridiculous frankly.

Career game changer. I can honestly say that this app truly helped me in my career. I’m the sole junior attorney in a small boutique firm that didn’t offer me a lot of guidance. I felt that I didn’t have anyone to turn to ask questions about my development or the legal industry at all. The advice I’ve gotten from other legal professionals, both young and incredibly experienced, has literally made a substantial impact on my career and life. This app truly was a game changer for me. Highly recommended.

Few Jobs. I honestly thought this was going to help me accomplish my goal of comparing different salaries for different airlines however 1. Miami Dade College is not even a school there 2. Theres not option for pilots. Now it begs to ask the question how many other professions are being segregated and discriminated against by mot showing the option for them. It really blew my mind to see Aviation Maintenance but not a Pilot, now I do agree that Pilots salaries fluctuate quite a bit depending on time and aircraft, however there should still be at least some data or information available to us.

Great app!. This is an app that I wished I had discovered sooner! I have been able to find people who have been able to give me advice when it comes to this industry. Social media can be overwhelming or not give you what you’re looking for, but with this app, I feel like it’s really to find people in similar situations or interests as you. The app is great for open discussion such as sexism and racism in the workforce. Really great app that more people should use!

Great place to drop your thoughts anonymously. I have found myself getting lots of support from likeminded professionals and I love that you can do it anonymously. Takes the edge off of you’re asking a question you might be embarrassed to ask if people knew you. My only con is that after a certain time you can’t go back and edit or delete your own posts, I think that’s weird.

Not a good discussion forum. I used to be a heavy user of this app, but got suspended supposedly for not being professional or doing spam, it was not specified and never clarified. I emailed back fishbowl support but got no reply to explain. In the end it was just a big disappointment, there are no objective criteria for suspension, if someone reads your post and doesn’t like it for any reason, they can report you and no check is done to verify it, so save your time and stay out of it.

It’s ok. Privacy settings should be improved.. My job title has been in pending mode for over a week now, so I can’t post or respond discreetly. The only two other options are the name of the company or using your real name… And working for a small business, the name of my company would be even less discreet than using my real (common) name! Also no way to switch to freelance/side gig identity while verification of my job title is pending. I will probably delete this app because of that. This is a great idea and good discussions happening!

People are allowed to say whatever. I’m all for freedom of speech until it’s promoting toxic stereotypes within the workplace and attacking certain race groups for speaking on their own experiences. I downloaded this app a while back but never did much with it until this morning. I am highly disappointed and wish I could share the screenshots of what I saw. Just ridiculous. Anonymity is nice until it’s not. I wanted to report a comment and didn’t have the choice to. Safe to say, I will be deleting this app and will warn those I know to stay away from it.

Total bs that some In-house recruiters are only allowed read only access. Why 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.

Except for the policing.... Fishbowl itself is fine and fun to read. The “zero tolerance” policy for “negativity” in their algorithm feels a bit like the Though Police though. There are FIVE ways to like a comment, and one way to report someone. Theyre the same effort to do. And if your post or response gets 5 likes and one report, thats it, youre reported and “suspended” and in need of a human response (good luck, might take a while) to get back on. This is a flaw in their design. But the forum itself is fine and interesting most of the time (the rest of the time its the same few topics over and over).

Perfect Resource for Students. Even though this is a resource for professionals, it offers a unique inside look into various industries and specific companies for college students. The candid and transparent conversations allow students to gain advice and see the struggles that verified professionals face in their every day lives. Haven’t found an app like this anywhere else and would definitely recommend this to other students!

Free Professional Development. As a new teacher, I try to get as much help and support as I possibly can. I want all the classroom ideas from end of the year gifts to Homework management! I get all of this on this ONE app. The comments and suggestions are real and authentic because there are REAL teachers sharing their tips and tricks. So excited to continue networking and sharing/reading posts!

Great moderation and helpful platform. Too many social platforms sacrifice the good of the larger community for the benefit of individual users. I love Fishbowl because their platform has a zero tolerance policy to toxic users which makes sense for a professional platform. Other apps don't seem to understand this principle. Great moderation and constructive incredibly helpful conversations make this app above any others in its space.

Same glitch for at least a year. Fishbowl has had the same glitch since I got it over a year ago and the developers don’t seem to care. You get multiple notifications about your post being liked and reacted to in different ways but when you keep on it you will only see one or two. Either no one’s actually liking it, or fishbowl is not properly aggregating the likes. There’s no way I have 20 likes in my notifications and I click it into itNow there’s an additional glitch where you just see three circles in a Venn diagram. It’s getting worse not better is my point.

Welcome to the Mariana Trench. All I can say is yikes. This place is a breeding ground for industry gossips to get together and slurp some tea. The anonymity factor throws any hope of professionalism out the window, transforming most users into rabid middle schoolers discovering social media for the first time. There really needs to be a better system for monitoring bullying. I got banned from a thread simply for posting positivity amidst a sea of voices spewing unwarranted hate at an OP. Unreal. There are pockets of goodness here and there, but it’s not really worth breathing in the toxic sludge seeping out from the industry’s bottom feeders. This app allows cowardly people to live out the worst version of themselves. If you’re looking for a constructive community that will help your career, stick to LinkedIn. No one has your best interest in mind here. Any helpful words of advice that can be found within this tank are drowned out by an abundance of abusive language. I am ashamed to call these people my colleagues, but I know they represent the minority.

Just a Worse version of Reddit.. Another user called me an idiot and wished death from COVID upon me because we disagreed about lockdowns. I responded that he was the idiot for not knowing COVID survival rates. This was wrong of me, I should not have stooped to his level, but so was FB’s response. My account was suspend for abusive behavior, while the other user’s comment wishing my death was not even removed. When my account suspension was lifted, I wanted to email the mod team questioning my suspension, and saw that the mod team has now blocked my ability to contact them or send support requests (which I had never even done before) The app is an ok concept but the management is horrific. Do not download, you’re better off just using Reddit.

Profile is forever pending. AND I accidentally posted under my real name thinking I was anonymous (thankfully it was only about my hedgehog, Bearclaw). As it turns out, I’m given no other options but to have my information displayed until my profile information isn’t “pending”. Too bad because I love the concept of the app itself and because it’s new, it’s kind of like the Wild Wild West. Which can be both titillating and jarring all at the same time. Haha! 🙃🫠

Fun app, kind of buggy. App has good content and enough users to create interesting discussions. However it has a bunch of bugs to work out - about 10% of the time the app just simply won’t open. And when you search for bowls to join they often just won’t show up in the search even though they definitely exist. Not sure if that last one is a bug or a way that the app tries to be more “selective.” But it’s annoying if you’re a marketing professional who can’t find the marketing bowl.

Great but needs fine tuning. Overall the app is pretty great. Smooth UI and a variety of bowls to get info on a given topic. I like how you can change how you post (your name, organization, or role). One of the most annoying things about this app is when you click a Fishbowl link in the app, it opens up the built-in web browser instead of using the native app like Reddit, Twitter, Fb, literally every other social media does. It is maddening.

Better than Brainstorming Staff Meetings!. What’s better than sitting around with a bunch of colleagues coming up with the same things they always have? Eating bologna on two stale heels of Wonder Bread and no condiments comes to mind. This forum is rife with numerous helpful ideas that actually work, no esoteric postulating. You may be anonymous as many are. Some are newbies some seasoned, but the responses range from some form of “I’m in the same boat,” to powerful solutions. Best use of my time in 26 years!

Spam. People should stay away from this app. It started in SF as a joke to the American corporate culture that people’s gossip within the office is entertaining. Basically, an app for people to troll and start argument. Now they are trying to turn around to keep it professional and don’t really care about their original users. Because they got all your information and they sell them to all the marketers who need them. They are the trolls of the professional world. Btw their series A round is backed by one of the owner of tiktok. It says a lot about what their company is going for, making money off your time and data without telling you.

Work email — 👎. I deleted this app as soon as I realized you had to include your work email. First, I don’t want to include my work email in the case I leave my job and then can’t access my account in the future. Second, I don’t want unnecessary emails to my account that breaks my email agreement with my school by using my email for social media-work related or not. I tried my personal email that ends in .edu and was told it is not valid. This brings up the conversation of do professionals not work in higher education? All seems so silly to me so it’s easier to delete this app than try to find ways around it. I would be interested in the app if this unnecessary issue was righted.

Learning resource for professionals. A place to get advice, insights, and resources from industry peers. It’s not just an ordinary forum, but a community you’ll be glad to be part of. I love the users here—even met some in real life! They’re willing to share honest thoughts and are more open to all sorts of discussions. Definitely recommend! Just one request feature: Please have a function to sort threads on each bowl the same way you could on the search tab.

Do NOT poorly review your workplace. take a step back for a second. Don’t you think everyone hates different aspects about their job and/or coworkers? Some people at those jobs may need the employment for they can’t get hired anywhere that pays better. If you have the opportunity to contribute to cancelling a workplace because of your personal experiences, you very well are contributing to putting those people out of those jobs. This is going to cause major workplace instability for the next generation if we program this unnecessary feedback mindset into the public. HR is there for any issues! So are Lawyers! grow up

Terrible. 0/5. This is, by far, THE most annoying app I have ever used. I was forced to download it to view a post regarding a career path I’m interested in— can’t even see the post on the app. No problem right? Just go back to the webpage and sign in, that would make sense— right? Wrong. Not with fishbowl. I had this downloaded for a grand total 30 minutes and I’m done. Reddit, LinkedIn— anything is better than this. Edit: also, might shock people to know, some of us are in two industries at once. Like accountants who work at law firms. Woah, mindblown. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Poor experience.. Not a fan of the app. It’s sluggish and bloated. Feed curation isn’t very good, you’ll see repeating posts a lot. Search also isn’t good, if multiple comments on a post contain your query, you’ll see the post in your search results multiple times. Also, no way to delete your posts. I’ve seen a user accidentally reveal their full name, delete their account, and the comment was still visible with their name. Fishbowl doesn’t seem to care about privacy because of how easy it is to accidentally reveal personal info.

Attorney. I have honestly never liked an app so much. It’s given me so much support, insight, and advice etc. Also, it has shown me I’m not alone in certain ways I feel about my profession. Further, it’s shown just how motivational I can be to others by replying to them with support, advice, agreement. It’s truly an innovative, helpful, and for me at-least a mental health boosting app!

Fishy…. My industry is listed, but the app wouldn’t let me input my specific field- I had to chose from a list of other fields that were not accurate. Strange that they ask for a work email… I didn’t proceed because the questions got so specific that if a colleague were to inquire about how much my role is paid, they could easily figure out that it was me who shared the info… might work for large companies, but too risky for medium-sized and small companies… I wouldn’t trust the data that’s in here… app is not well-thought out and does not overcome my privacy concerns.

Good in theory but serious confidentiality issues. Any changes you want to make to your profile have to a) be approved b) take an extraordinary amount of time to get said approval (7-10 days in my experience). They also don’t allow you to go back and delete a comment. I made the mistake of revealing (in my mind) too much personal info on an anonymous post and I had to call out that I was fearful of retaliation by my company TWICE before they would remove it for me. I was very uncomfortable with this process since I had to break my anonymity to Fishbowl just to get it removed. Big failure on security in my eyes. Caused me to significantly reduce my interaction with the app as a result.

Hard to navigate; should be able to change name. Very hard to navigate app. The app autocorrected my name and I tried to go in and rename myself and it wasn't an option (neither was going back to edit it when I realized). It's hard to understand the privacy settings too. But its major function of searching through posts are good.