Know what you are
walking into.
Everything an employer would rather you learned in month four. The overtime that never gets paid. The manager everyone leaves because of. The number they were always going to offer. Written down by the people who worked there, and tagged so you can compare it.
Free. Anonymous by default. See exactly how it works before you type anything.
Every company gets a danger score
- Looks safe
- 0–21
- Mixed signals
- 22–44
- Caution
- 45–69
- High risk
- 70–100
Built from structured red flags and ratings, damped until enough people have spoken. Not a star average with the anger sanded off.
A job with no salary is not a job listing
Salary range
Competitive, depending on experience
Salary is mandatory here
That is the literal error an employer gets. The form will not submit without a number, so you never spend three rounds finding out you cannot afford the job.
Where this is up to
LinkedOut is new and it is empty
There are no seeded reviews here, no imported ratings, no numbers borrowed from somewhere else to make the site look established. It fills up when people write things down, and not before. The first review about a company is the one that makes the next person believe they are not imagining it.
Why the number means something
A review site is only worth reading if you can see how it reaches its conclusions. Here is the whole mechanism, and it is the same one running in production.
Red flags, weighted
Reviewers tag what happened from a fixed list — wage theft, retaliation, unsafe conditions, broken hiring promises. Each tag carries a fixed weight, so a company cannot be dragged down by volume of adjectives.
- Wage theft / unpaid wages1.00
- Illegal practices1.00
- Harassment tolerated1.00
- Discrimination0.95
- Retaliation against speaking up0.95
Five heaviest of fifteen.
Verified employees count for more
Prove you worked there — a work email, or evidence a moderator checks — and your review carries one and a half times the weight of an unverified one in the score.
Your evidence is never shown on your profile or your review.
One review cannot brand a company
A single report carries 40% of the score it would otherwise produce. The damping lifts as more people say the same thing, and disappears at twelve reviews. Anger on its own does not move the number. Agreement does.
Pay works the same way: under three reports for a role we refuse to print a median and show you the raw entries instead.
The full calculation →What LinkedOut will not do
Every review site says it is on your side. These are the four things that decide whether that is true, written down so you can hold us to them.
We do not scrape reviews
Nothing here was lifted from another site or generated to make the place look busy. Every review has an account behind it that agreed to the rules. That is why a young LinkedOut looks empty instead of looking full.
We do not sell your data to employers
A company can buy a job listing. It cannot buy a list of its reviewers, a name, an email, an IP, or a hint about which of its ex-staff wrote what.
We do not remove criticism for money
There is no takedown tier and no appeal desk that a budget opens. Content comes down when it breaks the community rules, and a moderator decides that.
You cannot buy a better score
The danger score is computed from reviews and nothing else. Claiming a company page gets an employer a public reply box, not a lever on the number.
What protects you when you write
Most people who need this site are still employed, or still owed money, or still frightened of a reference. That is the case we designed for.
Anonymous by default
Reviews publish as Anonymous employee unless you deliberately attach your name. The link between a review and an account is never exposed in the interface, to employers or to anyone else.
Verification evidence stays with moderators
Proving you worked somewhere weights your review 1.5×. The work email or document you used is seen only by moderators — never on your profile, never on the review.
A scan before you publish, not a deletion after
Naming an individual or stating a crime as fact is held for a human and you are told exactly what tripped, so you can rewrite it into something that survives.
Anonymity here is enforced in the query, not the CSS
It still has limits, and we say so plainly: a story specific enough to identify you can identify you, and a court order is a court order. Read what anonymity does and does not cover before you write about a small team.
Someone wrote it down before you took the job. Or nobody did, and you can be the one who does.
Here because someone reviewed your company?Read what you can and cannot do about it