Until now, whenever Prosple received a new set of reviews from an employer, we would delete all previous reviews for that employer and replace them with the new set.
On one hand, this approach meant that the reviews on Prosple reflected only the most recent opinions of graduates. However, it also meant that a large amount of valuable feedback was removed each year.
To improve this, we’ve updated our system so that older reviews are no longer deleted when new reviews are added.
We’ve included dates on each review and will soon sort them from newest to oldest, ensuring that students see the most relevant and recent reviews first.
Additionally, we’ve enhanced our aggregate review score calculation to give greater weight to recent reviews over older ones. This update means the score students see is more likely to reflect the current state of an employer’s environment and rewards employers for recent improvements in their internship and graduate programs.
For example, if you had five 5/10 reviews from last year and added five 10/10 reviews this year, the average score under our old system would have been 7.5/10.
With our new system emphasising recent reviews more heavily, the score would now adjust to 7.9.
As part of this update, we will also begin restoring previously deleted reviews.
This may cause changes in the aggregate scores for some employers, but you will be notified by email if this affects your score.