Glassdoor, a California-based employer review platform, is planning to greatly expand its Chicago footprint with plans to hire up to 500 people in the “next several years.”
The tech company announced Friday that it has signed a long-term lease for two full floors in a new office building in the West Loop at 1375 W. Fulton St. The new 52,000-square-foot office can accommodate up to 400 of the anticipated new hires, and Glassdoor says it plans to have employees in the building by next summer.
The new office is an addition to Glassdoor’s existing office at 1330 W. Fulton St., where it currently employs 300 people. Between the two offices, Glassdoor says it can accommodate up to 800 employees in the Windy City.
Glassdoor opened an office in Chicago three years ago with just 30 employees. Since then, the company has steadily grown its sales, customer success, product and engineering teams.
In April, Glassdoor announced that it was expanding its product and software engineering operations in Chicago, the first city outside of San Francisco that Glassdoor has put an engineering team. The tech company said it was hiring for front-end, back-end, machine learning and test engineers, as well as data scientists, product managers and designers.
“Chicago has quickly grown into one of Glassdoor’s largest employee bases, in large part due to the region’s impressive talent pool,” said Christian Sutherland-Wong, Glassdoor’s president and chief operating officer, in a statement. “We look forward to adding exciting job opportunities to Chicago’s economy and continuing to build a world-class team that will fuel Glassdoor’s global growth.”
Besides Chicago and San Francisco, Glassdoor has offices in Mill Valley, Calif., Uniontown, Ohio, London, Dublin, São Paulo and Paris. Across all of its offices, Glassdoor currently employs nearly 900 people.
Glassdoor isn’t the only company expanding its tech presence in Chicago. Earlier this week, consulting giant Accenture announced that it is adding 600 high-skilled tech jobs in Chicago by 2022. Additionally, both Facebook and Google are growing fast in Chicago, and Salesforce is planning to add 1,000 new jobs in Chicago over the next five years and move into a new 57-story tower on the riverfront.
