Want a peek inside company doors? Check out Glassdoor.com

How would you like to know what employees really think about a company, the managers who work there, and what they are paid for specific jobs in certain cities? As more people enter the job market during what promises to be a grim season of layoffs, that's the kind of information that could come in very handy during a job search.

Bookmark Glassdoor.com. The site launched in June with the aim of providing a believable peek into several companies from the vantage of present and past employees. Anyone can anonymously sign up, enter a company, job title, salary, and then review her company, providing pros, cons and some pretty direct advice to management.

In a good sign that the site will be around for awhile, Glassdoor received $6.5 million in venture capital funding this week. Glassdoor's CEO, Robert Hohman, told The New York Times that many of the site's visitors find their way there after visiting some of the major online job boards first. They seem to be using it as a tool to research companies that are listing jobs. Some companies have more written about them than others, but in all, Glassdoor says there is info on 14,000 companies in 98 countries, and the critiques are building. You have to sign up or leave a review to read all the reviews. Same goes for salary info. It is definitely a useful site to glean some helpful information when combined with other company research.

The site is ad-supported but not yet profitable. Plans also call for Glassdoor to allow companies to contribute company info to provide another side of the story gleaned from visitors, most likely for a fee. Reading all sides of a company's story is all good, but it may also mean that visiting the site in the early stages may be far more interesting than visiting after companies bring their branding game to it.

Has anyone checked out Glassdoor.com yet?