Community Guidelines

A negative review is not a violation. A false one is.

Content stays up if it is a genuine account of your own experience — even if it is harsh, even if it is one-sided, even if the company disputes it. Your experience being unrepresentative does not make it untrue.

Content comes down when it makes verifiable claims of fact that did not happen, exposes private information, or targets an individual rather than describing a workplace.

• Be specific. “Bad management” helps nobody. “Four reorgs in eighteen months, each with a new roadmap” helps everybody.
• Say when. A company in 2019 may be a different company now. Give the reader the date.
• Say what you saw. First-hand experience is worth ten repetitions of something you heard.
• Include the good. A review that finds nothing positive reads as a grievance. A review that credits what worked lands harder.
• Criticise roles, not people. “My skip-level” rather than a name, unless the person is a public-facing executive.
• Verify if you can. A verified badge makes your review substantially more credible and costs you no anonymity.

• Fabrication. Inventing events, or reviewing a company you have no connection to.
• Doxxing. Home addresses, personal phone numbers, personal email, medical information, immigration status, family details — about anyone, including people you are criticising.
• Targeting individuals. Naming people below a senior public-facing level in a way that makes them the subject rather than the context.
• Harassment and threats. Including organising others to contact someone.
• Hate speech. Attacks based on a protected characteristic.
• Astroturfing. Companies posting fake positive reviews, or competitors posting fake negative ones. Both are detected and both end in a ban.
• Spam and self-promotion. This is not a place to sell things.
• Impersonation. Of a person or of a company.

You can claim your company page by verifying a work email on its domain. Once claimed you can update the page and post official responses on any review.

You cannot remove reviews. Not one.

What you can do is respond. A specific, non-defensive response from a company — “this was true, here is what changed” — consistently reads better to candidates than the review it answers. A response that argues with the reviewer does not.

If a review contains a false statement of fact, report it and say specifically which claim is false and why. Reports that amount to “this is unfair” are dismissed.

Most reviews here are anonymous, and that is the design. People still working somewhere are the ones with the most useful information and the most to lose.

But anonymity does not change the rules:

• Anonymous content is held to exactly the same standard.
• Anonymous accounts can be warned, suspended and banned like any other.
• Moderators can see who wrote reported content, and every such view is logged with a written reason.
• A court order overrides anonymity. Write as though it might.

Automated checks flag content for spam patterns, personal information and hate terms. A high score holds a post for human review — it never deletes one. Most automated holds are false positives on phone-number patterns and are cleared within a day.

Human enforcement escalates:

1. A warning, with the specific guideline cited.
2. Temporary suspension.
3. Permanent ban.

We skip straight to the end for doxxing, threats and coordinated fake reviews.

Every removal tells you which guideline was breached and how to appeal. Appeals go to a different moderator than the one who decided. Every moderation action is permanently recorded in an audit log with the moderator’s name and reason.

Use the “...” menu on any post, comment or profile. Tell us which specific part breaks which specific rule — a report that says “this is false” without saying which claim is false cannot be actioned.

Reports are not shared with the person reported.

Reporting things you merely disagree with wastes moderator time that would otherwise go to real violations. Repeatedly filing baseless reports is itself actionable.