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sharms on Jan 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankin...

I was taking a look at companies and saw a fair amount of this. The influenced positive reviews do appear to have a pattern to them and are fairly easy to spot, but it skews the numbers if you were not digging that deep.

colechristensen on Jan 22, 2019 [–]

Looking at the dates of reviews really helps. They tend to cluster when people are being asked to review.

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