Community rules
LinkedOut only works if the reports here hold up — to a job seeker reading them, and to a lawyer reading them. These rules are how we keep honest reviews standing.
Tell your own story
Write what you experienced or directly witnessed. Rumour is what gets true reports dismissed.
Never name individuals
Criticise employers and roles, not private people. No names, photos, emails, phone numbers, or profile links.
Facts over labels
Describe what happened instead of applying legal labels. Specifics are more useful and better protected.
No brigading or astroturf
One review per employer per person. No paid reviews, no coordinated pile-ons, no fake positivity from employers.
Protect other workers
Do not out anyone's identity, health, immigration status, or sexuality — including your own colleagues.
How to write something that survives
Weak and risky
“My manager Jane Doe is a criminal who steals from staff.”
Strong and safe
“I worked 62 hours of overtime in March 2026. My line manager told me it would be paid, it never appeared, and HR stopped answering. Two colleagues had the same thing happen.”
Facts you experienced, with dates and numbers, are both more useful to readers and far harder to attack. Labels are not.
The red flags and what they mean
- Wage theft / unpaid wages
- Salary, overtime, or agreed bonuses withheld or paid late.
- Illegal practices
- Employer broke labour, safety, or tax law.
- Harassment tolerated
- Sexual or personal harassment reported and not acted on.
- Discrimination
- Unequal treatment by gender, race, age, disability, or origin.
- Retaliation against speaking up
- People punished for raising problems or reporting misconduct.
- Unsafe working conditions
- Physical or psychological safety hazards left unaddressed.
- Toxic leadership
- Bullying, humiliation, or fear-driven management from the top.
- Unpaid overtime expected
- Long hours are the norm and are not compensated.
- Broken hiring promises
- Role, pay, equity, or remote terms changed after signing.
- Chaotic layoffs
- Sudden or repeated layoffs handled without notice or dignity.
- No work-life balance
- Always-on expectations, no real time off.
- Micromanagement / surveillance
- Constant monitoring, no autonomy or trust.
- No growth or promotion path
- Development promises never turn into real progression.
- Revolving-door turnover
- People leave faster than they can be replaced.
- Misleading interview process
- Unpaid test work, ghosting, or a role sold as something else.
What moderators do
Content that trips the safety scan — personal data, named individuals, accusations of crime — is held before it goes public, not deleted. A moderator reads it and either publishes it or tells you what to change.
Reports of doxxing hide the content immediately, because that harm cannot be undone later. Every moderator action is logged against the moderator who took it.
Employers can respond to reviews about them, but they cannot remove them. Coordinated fake positivity gets accounts banned.