Community Guidelines

What we want

• Honest criticism. Say the company lies about work-life balance. Say the appraisal process is rigged. Say the culture is toxic. We will never remove a post for being negative or damaging to a company's image — that is the entire reason this site exists.
• Specifics over adjectives. "Expected online until 11pm most weeknights" helps a job-seeker. "Bad company" doesn't.
• The gap between promise and reality. What were you told during interviews, and what did you actually find? That gap is the single most useful thing you can share.

What gets blocked

• Contact details. Phone numbers, email addresses, LinkedIn profiles, Aadhaar or PAN numbers. Never post these about anyone, including yourself. This is the one thing we cannot publish in any form — masking a phone number still leaves enough to identify someone.
• Confidential documents. Internal financials, client data, source code, unreleased product information. "Leaks" here means the truth about culture — not company documents.
• Photos of people. Faces, ID badges, screens, whiteboards.

Swearing

You can swear. We mask the word for display — "a complete f***ing nightmare" — and publish everything else exactly as you wrote it. Nothing about your point gets softened, and your original text is kept on record.

We mask rather than reject because losing a whole honest review over one angry word helps nobody, and because a page of uncensored swearing gets dismissed by exactly the people who most need to read it.

Naming individuals

You may name a specific person in a review. Because this carries real risk for both you and the person named, every post that names someone is held for manual review before it is published. When we review it, we ask:

• Is this a factual account of workplace behaviour, or a personal attack?
• Would this be equally useful with the role instead of the name?
• Does it allege something that, if untrue, would seriously harm them?

We often publish these with the name replaced by the role. The signal a job-seeker needs — "the engineering managers here micromanage" — survives that edit intact.

Reporting content

Every post has a Report link. Our grievance officer responds within 36 hours, as required under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. See the Grievance Officer page.

If a report is upheld, the content is removed and the decision is logged. If it's rejected, the content stays up and we explain why. We do not remove accurate criticism because a company objects to it.