Glassdoor Reputation Management
Glassdoor shapes how candidates and current employees perceive your company, directly affecting recruiting outcomes and retention — reputation management here is about talent, not just customers.
Why a Glassdoor rating isn’t a simple average you can back-calculate
Glassdoor calculates a company’s overall rating using a proprietary algorithm applied to all-time approved reviews, and it weights more recent reviews more heavily than older ones. Glassdoor doesn’t publish the exact formula, but it has confirmed the rating isn’t a flat, unweighted mean of every star rating a company has ever received — which is why a burst of very old reviews behaves differently than the same volume of recent ones.
A company needs at least 5 reviews before Glassdoor will display an overall rating and a descriptive label (such as "Excellent" or "Good"); those label cutoffs were themselves set using data percentiles across the reviews Glassdoor has collected. The overall rating figure is rounded to the nearest 0.1 and refreshes on a roughly 7-business-day cycle as new reviews are approved.
Employees can also rate specific Workplace Factors — Career Opportunities, Compensation & Benefits, Culture & Values, Diversity & Inclusion, Senior Management, and Work/Life Balance — when they write a review. Those sub-ratings give candidates and employers a more granular read on culture and leadership, but Glassdoor does not publish them as a disclosed input formula for the single overall star rating shown on a company’s profile.
What actually moves a Glassdoor rating
- Recency weighting — more recent employee reviews influence the overall rating more than older ones, so a stale review history behaves differently than an actively maintained one.
- A minimum-review threshold — no overall rating or label displays until a company has at least 5 approved reviews.
- Guideline compliance — reviews Glassdoor removes for violating its Community Guidelines (confidential info, harassment, incentivized/coerced content) don’t count toward the rating at all.
- A periodic refresh cycle — the displayed rating updates roughly every 7 business days as new approved reviews come in, rather than instantly with each submission.
- Workplace Factor sub-ratings (culture, senior management, compensation, career opportunities, work/life balance, diversity & inclusion) are collected per review and shown separately, giving candidates a fuller picture beyond the single overall number.
How we approach Glassdoor
- Response management for employee and candidate reviews
- Guidance on Glassdoor’s content and response policies
- Monitoring across ratings, culture and leadership scores
- Coordination with HR and leadership on response strategy
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Packages start at $110.
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