I've seen company's with Glassdoor reviews similar to your description while job hunting. You see the high star rating and look further, but then start reading

I've seen company's with Glassdoor reviews similar to your description while job hunting. You see the high star rating and look further, but then start reading and it sticks out like dogs balls. At least I thought so. It was exactly the pattern you described - lots of short pure fluff reviews giving high stars, with long detailed reviews giving low stars. The impression was enough to put me off - but the grapevine later confirmed it. It was so obvious, I don't see how anybody doing their due diligence during a job search could possibly miss it. Speaking for myself it was the nail in the coffin. A company could get a lot of low star reviews for any number of reasons - maybe they went through a rough patch and had to let go of a lot of people. A company that holds all their best people might not get many reviews at all. In other words, if there aren't hundreds of reviews, I'd take the overall rating with a grain of salt and perhaps go to the interview anyway. But flagrant manipulation like this leaves no doubt. Not only are they prepared to blatantly deceive new employees, it confirms no one likes working there. Which means the people who do end up being employed there either didn't bother putting in the work, or have a low EQ. Just as painted by the article.