Writing a fair and useful review
Someone weighing that company will read your ratings. Nothing to write: rate honestly and pick the ready-made statements you actually lived — negative ones too.
The ratings you give a company may be the most honest thing someone weighing that company ever sees. The job ad is where the company describes itself; your review is what it looks like from inside. There is nothing to write here: you rate, and you pick from ready-made statements that were written to be fair to everyone.
Sharing a negative experience is fine. A low rating is published too; the measure is not whether the company likes it, but whether you actually lived it.
How the form works
Your relationship to the company and one overall rating — that is all that is required. A rating runs from 1 (very negative) to 5 (very positive).
Ten more areas can be rated: work environment, management, career, work-life balance, pay, benefits, remote work, tools, hiring, onboarding. Leave out any area you cannot judge — leaving it blank is not a "3"; it simply does not count toward that area's average.
Once you rate an area the form offers a few statements about it: things you liked for a high rating, things that could be better for a low one. "More" shows the area's full list.
At most five "liked" and five "could be better" statements — for the whole review, not per area. The limit is for the reader: five statements say something, thirty say nothing.
Published the moment you save. No waiting. Readers can report it; if a moderator takes it down, the reason appears under My Reviews.
Why there is no free text
Reviews here used to have a title, pros and cons. We removed them because moderators are not lawyers: even a sentence that looked reasonable could turn out to be a claim about a person, an insult or an accusation nobody could verify — with both the author and us standing behind it. Ready-made statements carry none of that: they name nobody, claim nothing, and describe an experience. You can see which statements exist on any company page; the list is the same for everyone.
Rating honestly
Rate your own experience. What happened to you, not what you heard.
Keep the areas apart. Pay can be poor while the team is good; giving both the same rating paints the reader a false picture.
Give the overall rating last. "How was it as a whole" is easier to answer once you have thought about the parts.
Don't reach for the extremes — unless it really was one. 1 and 5 are honest ratings too.
The same experience, two ways to pick
Not this: a 1 in every area, five "could be better" statements, all about pay.
This: pay 2 with "salary level" and "alignment with the market"; work environment 4 with "team communication". The reader sees what was good and what was not.
Not this: a 5 in every area, no statements.
This: overall 4, remote work 5 with "flexible hours", career 3 with "promotion criteria". That is the one people believe.
Your review is published as soon as you save it and appears on the company page without your name. Curious how what you rate will be read? See How to read employee reviews.