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What is a good Glassdoor rating?

Context matters, but broadly 4.0+ is strong. Trends, response rate and CEO approval matter as much as the headline score.

There is no universal threshold, but broadly a rating around 4.0 and above reads as strong, while context matters more than the headline number. Just as telling are the trend direction, how recently reviews were posted, your response rate and CEO approval, because candidates read those as signals of whether you engage with feedback. A steady 3.8 that is climbing, with thoughtful employer responses, can reassure more than a stale 4.2. Nuance matters because candidates are quite sophisticated readers of these pages. The pitfall is chasing the score itself, by soliciting reviews aggressively or disputing critics, rather than fixing the recurring themes the reviews are actually pointing to.

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