How to Remove Glassdoor and Indeed Reviews (2026 Employer Guide)

Read the review next to the rules before you decide it is removable. Indeed publishes its standard in Company Reviews: Best Practices, Policies, and Guidelines, and it opens with the line that governs everything below, that Indeed may remove Company Page content that breaks its guidelines or policies. Glassdoor says in its Employer Center guide that it maintains strict community guidelines so reviews and responses are helpful, balanced and authentic, and that reviews go through a two-touch moderation process of an automated check plus, sometimes, a human one.

Not grounds for removal: a one-star review from someone who really worked there. A review you consider unfair. A review that gets a detail wrong. Indeed answers this one directly in its employer FAQ, quoted in step 4.

Grounds Indeed publishes: unlawful, fraudulent, discriminatory, threatening, abusive, libelous or defamatory statements. Obscene material and discriminatory slurs. Personal details about someone outside their role at a company. Content from a reviewer Indeed has evidence was paid, forced or pressured to post. Reviews for a company the writer never worked for. More than one review per person per company.

If you would rather not build the case yourself, our Glassdoor review removal service and Indeed review removal service document the breach and charge only when the review comes down.

Indeed sets this out in Adding and Deleting Company Reviews. Two details matter for employers reading this step. Indeed says you can only write one review per company, and it says a resubmitted review replaces the existing one rather than adding to it.

The same page is why an employer cannot shortcut the process. Indeed states in its Managing Company Reviews guide that only the reviewer can delete their own post. Leaning on a former employee to withdraw a review is outside anything either platform supports, and it hands the reviewer a screenshot.

Indeed asks reviewers to give their own opinion without stating opinions as facts, to use examples from their own time at the company, and to avoid naming or identifying people who are not public figures. Each of those is a hook for a report when a review ignores it.

Two further grounds sit in the same document. Under review integrity, Indeed says it may remove reviews where there is evidence the reviewer was paid, or forced or pressured to post content. Under best practices, it limits each person to one review or answer per company, and to companies they work for or have worked for.

Glassdoor publishes its own rules as Community Guidelines in its help center. Read the current version there and name the section in your flag rather than paraphrasing it. Glassdoor decides its own flags, so the wording you use is the whole submission.

Indeed answers the question most employers arrive with, in its own FAQ on Managing Company Reviews. Can I remove a negative review? Indeed answers no, reviews stay up unless they violate the content guidelines, and you can respond professionally or report the review if it does not follow them.

Two outcomes short of removal are worth knowing. Indeed says a review may be redacted instead, with the offending text removed and the star rating kept. And where a review landed on the wrong company, Indeed says employers with claimed Company Pages can submit a migration request to move it. That is the fastest win available when two businesses share a name.

Glassdoor describes the flag in The Ultimate Guide to Glassdoor Reviews, where it tells employers they can flag reviews that do not meet its content standards and seek additional review from the Content Moderation team. Flag each review on its own, with the specific rule it breaks.

Both platforms publish rules for the response itself, and both of them ban the two things angry employers do. Glassdoor asks employers to be courteous and professional, not to include the name of the individual they believe wrote the review, and not to threaten the writer with legal or other punitive damage. Indeed asks employers not to try to work out who the author is, since reviews are anonymous, and not to threaten legal or other actions.

Know how each one moderates. Glassdoor says it moderates employer responses after they post, so a response that misses the guidelines can appear briefly and then be removed, with an email telling you. Indeed says responses post shortly after submission and its Trust and Safety team reviews a response if someone reports it. Glassdoor also notes your response carries the date and your job title, and that the original reviewer gets an email when you reply.

Write for the candidate reading over the reviewer's shoulder. Two to four sentences, one concrete issue, what changed if anything changed. If your Google profile has the same problem, the arithmetic in our rating recovery guide applies there too.

The difference between a DIY flag and a specialist case:

• DIY flag: one report, usually arguing the review is unfair, in a queue that declines exactly that argument.
• Specialist case: the named rule, the evidence behind it, and a filing written for a moderator who reads dozens a day.

Worth it when your report already came back rejected, when you are mid-hiring-push and every week of a damaged profile costs real candidates, when the volume is high, or when a cluster of reviews landed after a layoff and needs to be documented as a pattern. Repvive works on that model: no removal, no fee. Start with our Glassdoor review removal service or our Indeed review removal service and we will tell you which reviews have a rule behind them.