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Not from anything we publish. An anonymous post returns no author id in any API response — not a hash, not an obfuscated token. There is nothing in the payload to correlate across posts except the handle itself.

Your handle is derived by HMAC-SHA256 from a per-account secret and the post’s scope. Reversing it would require both that secret and the server’s signing key, which live in different systems.

The real risk is not cryptographic — it is what you write. A detail only three people could know identifies you regardless of what the platform does.

Because it is the same person, and that is deliberate. A reader should be able to tell whether they are looking at two independent accounts or one person twice. Your handle for a different company is unrelated and cannot be linked to it.

Two situations, both recorded:

• A moderator reviewing content that was reported or auto-held. Every such view writes a permanent log entry with the moderator’s name, a written reason and a timestamp.
• A valid, binding legal order. Where we are permitted to notify you first, we will.

Nobody at LinkedOut can casually look up who wrote a review. The moderation queue is the only path, and it leaves a trail.

Not from us. A claimed company page can see the reviews — everyone can, they are public — but never who wrote an anonymous one. Your work email, if you verified one, is used only to check the domain and is never shown or shared.

That you confirmed a work email on that company’s domain. It does not mean we checked your claims — it means you were demonstrably there. On an anonymous review that reads as “verified ex-employee, name withheld”, which is the most useful thing a review can say.

It is used once, to check the domain, and then stored only for that check. It never appears on your profile, is never attached to a review, and is never shared with your employer. Free providers are rejected because they prove nothing.

• Specifics. “Bad management” helps nobody. “Four reorgs in eighteen months” helps everybody.
• Dates. A company in 2019 may be a different company now.
• First-hand experience. Worth ten repetitions of something you heard.
• The good parts too. A review that finds nothing positive reads as a grievance. One that credits what worked lands harder.

Yes — pick “Interviewed here” as your relationship. Interview reviews are among the most-read on the platform, because the process is the first honest signal a candidate gets.

Start writing the review and type the name. Company pages are created automatically the first time somebody reviews an employer.

Possibly, and we cannot advise you. LinkedOut does not know what you signed, and the consequences of breaching it fall on you. Describing your own working conditions is generally different from disclosing confidential business information — but if you are unsure, get advice before posting.

An automated check scored it above our threshold — most often because it contains something that looks like a phone number or an email address. That check is a regex, and it is frequently wrong.

A human looks at it, usually within a day. If it is cleared it goes back up exactly as you wrote it.

No. Content stays up if it is a genuine account of your own experience, even if it is harsh and even if the company disputes it. What comes down is fabrication, doxxing, harassment, and posts that target an individual rather than describing a workplace. A company disagreeing with a review is not a reason.

You will have received an email naming the specific guideline and a link to appeal. Appeals go to a different moderator than the one who made the original decision. Every moderation action is permanently logged with the moderator’s name and their reason.

A role that is posted but not actually being filled — kept open to collect résumés, to look like the company is growing, or because nobody closed the requisition. It costs every applicant an evening.

Three signals, combined into a score:

• How long the listing has been open
• How many people have applied
• How many of them a member has reported hearing back from

A listing open for months with hundreds of applicants and almost no recorded responses gets flagged. It is a heuristic, not a certainty — it is shown as a warning, not a verdict.

This only works because people apply through the platform and the response times get recorded. The application tracker is where that data comes from.

By one published formula, recalculated every five minutes:

No editorial curation, no paid placement. Switch to “Recent” any time for strict reverse-chronological.

Your profile, your posts, and a keyed hash of your IP and device for recognising your own logins.

Never: your raw IP address, your precise location, photo GPS data, your search history, or your browsing anywhere else. There are no advertising or tracking scripts on this platform.

Download everything from Settings → Data privacy.

No — and this is the one answer people are most often surprised by, so it is worth being blunt.

Your personal data is permanently deleted after 30 days. Your reviews stay published, reattributed to “Deleted member”.

If closing an account erased its reviews, any company able to pressure a former employee into deleting their account could clear its own review page — and every remaining review would be from someone who was not pressured.

If you want specific posts gone, delete those posts first, then close the account.

Contact support@linkedout.example from the email address on the account. Recovery requires identity verification and is logged in the audit trail — there is no self-service path, because a self-service path is a self-service path for an attacker too.