The average company in the MIT SMR/Glassdoor Culture 500 sample had 2,182 reviews, representing about 4% of its total employment. The source also characterizes the average company as having over 2,000 employee reviews, equivalent to about three full-length books' worth of textual data.

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A single Glassdoor review could reflect one employee's idiosyncratic view, but aggregating hundreds or thousands of reviews paints an accurate picture of a company's culture.

Aggregating Glassdoor Reviews for Accurate Culture Assessment

MIT Sloan Management Review project page on measuring culture in leading companies, including the Culture 500 dataset. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/measuring-culture-in-leading-companies/

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Culture 500 Sample Size per Company

A large sample of reviews is not enough for accurate culture measurement unless the reviews accurately represent the views of the company's workforce as a whole.

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