Questions, answered plainly

No. Rating rows have no user ID column at all. When you submit a rating we compute a one-way HMAC-SHA256 token from your user ID and the specific employment record, store that token, and discard the inputs. There is no key that reverses it — not for your employer, not for us.

The token is deterministic: the same user and the same employment record always produce the same token. So we can find your existing review to update it, without ever storing who you are.

Scores only appear once a company has five or more approved reviews. At small companies a single visible score could be traced back to the one person who left it. The threshold is three for individual managers and teams.

Your rating tokens are overwritten with a randomly generated deletion token. The reviews stay so aggregate scores remain accurate, but the link back to you is destroyed permanently and cannot be reconstructed.

Each night we read your approved ratings and build a preference profile — how much you weight culture, management quality, growth, fairness, and work-life balance. Job matches score 60% on how well a company scores in the dimensions you weight highly, and 40% on semantic similarity between your career profile and the role.

Matching activates after three approved ratings. Below that there is not enough signal to distinguish your preferences from the average, and a bad recommendation is worse than none.

No. The recommendation engine only ever reads your aggregated preference profile. It never queries the rating tables directly. That separation is enforced in the database schema, not just in policy.

Your name, email address, and profile photo. That is the full extent of what LinkedIn releases through Sign In with LinkedIn. Work history, skills, and connections are not available to third-party applications, so you add those yourself or upload a resume.

Google, Apple, and LinkedIn, all through OpenID Connect. You can link more than one to the same account — sign in with Google today and connect LinkedIn later without creating a second profile.

No. Aggregate, anonymised company scores are the product. Individual profiles and individual ratings are never sold, licensed, or shared with employers.

Yes, with no card required. Free covers your full profile, unlimited anonymous ratings, company browsing, connections, and messaging. Premium adds salary percentiles, AI job matching, and profile view history.

Reviews are tied to an employment record on your profile. We check that the employment record exists and matches the company before accepting the rating, and every review passes human moderation before it affects a public score.