Pinned, not buried
One reader is enough
Your story isn't a post that has to go viral. It's a receipt filed under the company's name, found by whoever looks them up before their interview. It works with an audience of one.
Real hiring experiences, by company
Know what happened
before you apply.
Real candidate experiences, anonymous by default and searchable by company: the rounds, the waiting, the replies (or not), the offers and the ghosting.
No name. No company email. About 30 seconds to share.
Final round | HushLoop
“Six interviews later, the only thing moving was my follow-up email.”
27Red Flag
Flag score | “we’ll circle back”
The candidate timeline
“Applied in May. Finished the assignment in June. Got “great news soon” in July. It is now emotionally September.”
A timeline is not a hiring strategy.
Last recruiter activity
34 days ago
✦‘Competitive pay’ is not a number✦Six rounds is a hostage situation✦Your take-home is not their roadmap✦A rejection is still a reply✦If it’s urgent, why are you ghosting?✦Vibes are not a benefits package✦Pizza Friday is not a raise✦“We’re a family” — then pay me like one✦Seen at 10:02. Replied never.✦‘Competitive pay’ is not a number✦Six rounds is a hostage situation✦Your take-home is not their roadmap✦A rejection is still a reply✦If it’s urgent, why are you ghosting?✦Vibes are not a benefits package✦Pizza Friday is not a raise✦“We’re a family” — then pay me like one✦Seen at 10:02. Replied never.
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No corporate speak
The hiring lore, minus the HR filter.
01
Tell the whole plot
Drop the timeline, the salary switch-up, and the ‘quick chat’ that ate your afternoon.
02
Rate the reality
Score the replies, pay, culture, and whether anyone remembered your name.
03
Save a fellow human
One honest post can rescue someone from six rounds and a surprise deck.
The Ghost-o-meter
How ghosted are you, exactly?
Slide to how many days it's been since they said “we'll get back to you”. We'll tell you where you stand, and hand you a follow-up to send.
Step 1 · Days since their last reply
9days
Your status
Mild haunting
Read receipts on. Replies off. Classic.
Step 2 · Odds they reply on their own
48%
The ghost fades as their interest does.
Step 3 · Send them this follow-up
“Hi again, wanted to follow up on my interview from last week. Any update on timelines?”
See what other candidates went through there
Look the company up. No account needed.
Still on read? We've got you.
Find out if you're being impatient or being ghosted, then send the follow-up you've been drafting in your head for a week.
Am I overthinking this?
Tell us where you're stuck and for how long. We'll tell you if it's patience or a ghost.
Where did they leave you?
days of staring at your inbox
The dot is roughly how long a reply after a technical round usually takes. The bar is you.
The verdict
Okay, now it's slow
Day 10, and the usual is about 7. Not a ghost yet, but definitely the sound of footsteps upstairs.
What to do: Send one short, polite follow-up. The polite poke can draft it for you.
The polite poke
A follow-up that sounds keen, not desperate. Fill in the blanks, pick a mood, copy.
Last thing that happened
Mood
Hi,
Hope your week's going well! I wanted to check in on the final round, 10 days ago. I enjoyed the conversation and I'm still genuinely excited about the role.
Whenever you get a moment, could you share where things stand and what the next step looks like?
Thanks so much,Why post here, not there
Your story deserves better than a feed.
You could post it on the professional network where your manager follows you. Or on a big review site with an employer dashboard. Or in a group chat that forgets it by Friday. Here's the difference.
The professional network
Where your boss, your team and every future recruiter read your posts. Honesty there has a price.
The big review sites
Built as much for employers as for you. Profiles, dashboards, polished responses.
The group chat
Great tea, gone by Friday. Nobody can find it before their interview.
Posting elsewherePosting on Ghosted
Posting on GhostedYour identity
ElsewhereUsually your real name and photo, or an account that can be traced back to you.
GhostedAnonymous by default. Your name is encrypted, and it's only shown if you choose to go public.
What you control
ElsewhereOften all or nothing: public, or don't post.
GhostedPick exactly which details appear (name, role, city, LinkedIn), and switch back anytime.
Who pays
ElsewhereOften funded by employer products, which isn't the same as being on your side.
GhostedCompanies can't pay us to hide, edit, bury or boost a story. Ever.
Can you check?
ElsewhereClosed code. You take their word for how your data is handled.
GhostedOpen source. Anyone can read exactly how your identity is protected.See the code
What it's built for
ElsewhereGeneric star ratings for workplaces in general.
GhostedHiring specifically: rounds, days of silence, pay vs the posting, offers revoked.
Shelf life
ElsewhereA post that's buried in two days, or a chat that scrolls away.
GhostedEvery story is pinned to the company, so the next candidate finds it before their interview.
Cost
ElsewhereFree to read, with the best bits behind a paywall or a sign-up wall.
GhostedFree to read, free to post, free forever.
We describe the kinds of places people usually post, not any particular company. Every platform is different, and some do parts of this well.
The obvious question
“The big sites already have millions of people. Why post where nobody is?”
Good. That's the point.
Millions of users is exactly why your story disappears there. On Ghosted it doesn't have to compete with anything: it's pinned to the company, and it's waiting for the one reader who needs it most, the next candidate about to walk into the same process.
Our goal: hiring without the frustration
Ghosted isn't here to scare you off a job. It's here so you can apply with your eyes open, and so the processes that waste people's time finally feel some pressure to change.
Apply with confidence
Know the rounds, the usual wait and the real pay before you start, so nothing about the process catches you off guard.
Push back on bad processes
Endless rounds, unpaid ‘assignments’, silence after the final interview: when it's written down where everyone can see it, it gets harder to keep doing.
Give good employers credit
Companies that reply fast and treat candidates well rise to the top. Green flags are as loud as red ones here.
Keep candidates going
A rejection or a ghosting says more about the process than about you. Seeing that it happened to others too makes it easier to keep applying.
First stories count most
Be the first receipt
On a crowded site you're review number 4,000. Here, your story can be the first thing anyone reads about that company's hiring, and it shapes its Flag Score from day one.
Value on day one
Useful before anyone else joins
The Waiting Room tracks every application you're waiting on, counts the days of silence and tells you when a follow-up is fair. That works if you're the only person here.
Hiring, specifically
They measure something else
The big review sites rate working at a company, after you got in. Nobody records the part that hurts: rounds, days without a reply, pay vs the posting, offers pulled, jobs that never existed.
Honesty without a price
No blowback, ever
The professional network is where your manager, your team and every future recruiter read your posts. Here you're anonymous by default, and nothing links your story to you.
Moderated from post one
Clean by design
Goofy, our AutoMod, removes vulgarity, hides people's names and checks accusations before anything goes up, so what you read here is worth trusting, even early.
What one story does
- 1
Today
You share what happened, in about three minutes, anonymously.
- 2
Next week
Someone searching that company finds it before their final round.
- 3
Next month
A few more stories land, and the company has a real Flag Score.
- 4
Next year
Nobody walks into that process blind again.
Every platform with millions of users started with a first thousand.
Be in the first thousand that make hiring honest.
Tiny red flags, huge plot twists
The things they conveniently forget to mention.
The job description said “fast-paced.” It omitted the part where nobody had a map.
The salary range
Posted: ₹18–24 LPA
Offered: ‘Let’s first see how you perform.’
The take-home
Estimated: 90 minutes
Included: strategy, design, code, deployment, emotional damage.
The follow-up
Sent: Tuesday
Status: spiritually delivered.
✦‘Competitive pay’ is not a number✦Six rounds is a hostage situation✦Your take-home is not their roadmap✦A rejection is still a reply✦If it’s urgent, why are you ghosting?✦Vibes are not a benefits package✦Pizza Friday is not a raise✦“We’re a family” — then pay me like one✦Seen at 10:02. Replied never.✦‘Competitive pay’ is not a number✦Six rounds is a hostage situation✦Your take-home is not their roadmap✦A rejection is still a reply✦If it’s urgent, why are you ghosting?✦Vibes are not a benefits package✦Pizza Friday is not a raise✦“We’re a family” — then pay me like one✦Seen at 10:02. Replied never.
The Hall of Flags
Receipts, ranked.
Community scores, not employer-sponsored vibes.
Put the first company on the board.
Every company's Flag Score comes from candidates' experiences. Yours takes about 30 seconds, and you could be one of Ghosted's first 50 voices.
Show up, level up. Bring a friend, level up faster.
Every story you read, react to and add earns XP. Keep a daily streak and climb from LV 1 to the deep-red levels everyone notices. Inviting someone who shares their story is the biggest XP boost there is. No money, no spam, nobody learns who you are.
The pitch
Everyone rates the job.Nobody rates the hiring.
You gave them six rounds.
A weekend-long “two-hour” assignment.
Your notice period, your references, your hopes.
They gave you silence.
Ghosted is where that silence finally gets a score.
Receipts, not ratings
Not another five-star vibe check. Rounds, days waited, pay vs the posting, offers pulled. The stuff that actually decides whether you should apply.
5things we score, not 1 star rating
Anonymous by design
Your name is encrypted, your handle is random, and nothing links your anonymous posts to you. Go public only if you want the credit.
0names shown unless you say so
Nobody's for sale
No paid tiers. No profile polishing. No “remove this review” button for anyone with a budget. Companies can reply, show what they changed and pledge to answer faster, all free, all labelled, and judged by your stories. They never see who wrote them. And the code is open, so you can check.
₹0companies can pay to change a score
Recruiters have ATS software, hiring managers and a whole HR team.
Candidates finally have Ghosted.
The interview gauntlet
Can you survive a hiring process?
Every tile is a step in the process. Most are fine. Some are red flags, and a recruiter will hit you with their finest move. Clear the board to reach the offer. Three red flags and you're out, just like real life.
- Applied
- Screening call
- Take-home
- Tech round
- Final round
- Offer
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