Posting Guidelines

You can review a company if you work there now or worked there before, as an employee, contractor, or intern. You can review a manager or leader only if you worked with them directly or close enough to see how they lead. You can share an interview experience if you interviewed there.

One review per company and one per manager. If your experience changes, edit your review instead of posting a new one.

•Stick to what you saw and experienced yourself, not what you heard from others.

•Be specific. "Changed priorities every week, so sprints rarely finished" helps more than "terrible manager."

•Describe behavior, not character. "Didn't respond to messages for days" is fair. "Lazy and stupid" is not.

•Include the good along with the bad when there is some. Balanced reviews are more believable.

•Write when you're calm. Reviews written in anger are more likely to cross a line.

Know The Boss lets you name the manager or leader you're reviewing, so the guidelines here are stricter than for companies.

You can write about how they do their job, for example:

•Management style, communication, decisions, and follow-through.

•How fairly they treated you and your team, including workload, credit, and feedback.

•Whether you would want to work for them again, and why.

You can't post:

•Anything about their personal life, family, relationships, appearance, health, religion, politics, or sexual orientation.

•Their contact details, home location, or personal social media.

•Claims that they committed a crime, like fraud, theft, or assault, stated as fact.

•Rumors, guesses about their motives, or things you only heard from other people.

If something serious happened to you, like discrimination or harassment, you can describe your own experience and how it was handled. Please also report it to HR, a lawyer, or the right government agency, who can investigate in a way we can't.

Don't name or describe coworkers who aren't the subject of your review, like peers, HR staff, or recruiters, in a way that identifies them. Executives can be named when you are describing their leadership.

Never post anyone's phone number, email, address, or other personal details, including your own if it could put you at risk.

You can talk about pay, benefits, hours, policies, culture, layoffs, and visa sponsorship. That's what the site is for, and the law protects your right to discuss your working conditions.

Don't post genuine trade secrets, like source code, unreleased product details, internal financials that aren't public, customer names under confidentiality, or security information.

•Threats, including veiled ones, and anything encouraging violence or self-harm.

•Hate speech, slurs, or attacks on anyone's race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or national origin.

•Harassment, bullying, or sexual content.

•Accusations of crimes against a named person stated as fact.

•Personal information about anyone, as described above.

•Spam, ads, links to sell things, or text copied from other websites.

•Reviews of your own company written to raise its score, reviews of a competitor, and reviews you were paid or rewarded to write.

•Reviews by someone who didn't work there, or more than one review of the same company or manager.

•Posts that try to identify an anonymous reviewer, or that respond to or argue with other reviews.

Every post is screened by automated tools, including AI models, before it appears. Posts that might break these guidelines go to a person, who decides whether to publish them. Anyone can report a post, and reported posts are reviewed again.

We don't edit reviews to make them fit the rules. If a post breaks a rule, we hold or remove it, and you can submit a new version.

We don't check whether every statement in a review is true, and we don't remove reviews because they are negative, because a company or manager disagrees with them, or in exchange for money.

If you believe a review breaks these guidelines, report it with the button on the review, or send us the link and the reason through the contact form. Please don't report reviews just because you disagree with them, and don't try to find out who wrote them or encourage employees to post positive reviews in return for anything.

You are welcome to ask current and former employees to share honest reviews, as long as you don't tell them what to say or reward them for it.

If you're a person named here and would rather not be listed at all, you can ask to be removed using the "Request removal" link at the bottom of every page.

If we removed something you posted and you think we got it wrong, send us the link or a description through the contact form, and we will take another look.