How Bossholes Grades Employers (The Actual Math)

Every employer grade on this site is computed by a formula. No editor assigns grades, no company can negotiate one, and the written text of a review never moves a score. Here is exactly how it works.

Reviews are structured, not vibes

When someone reviews a company, they answer structured questions. How many interview rounds. Was there an unpaid assignment. How many days of layoff notice. Was severance offered. Did the posted salary range match the offer. Each answer has a fixed point value, and each review scores 0 to 100 from those answers alone.

A ghosted candidate costs an employer 30 points. A layoff with zero notice costs 30. Locking people out of their laptops before telling them costs 20. The scoring rules are the same for every company on the site.

The math that stops manipulation

Scores are averaged with a statistical prior that pulls toward 50. In plain terms: one furious review cannot produce an F, and one suspicious rave cannot produce an A. With a single review, the score can never even fall below 33. As real reviews accumulate, the prior fades and the true average takes over.

A letter grade only appears once a company has 5 published reviews. Below that, the page says Insufficient data, because that is the honest answer.

Where the layoff data comes from

Companies with 100 or more employees are required by the federal WARN Act to file notice with state governments before mass layoffs. We ingest those filings directly from state labor departments. They are public records: dates, headcounts, and locations, straight from the company's own paperwork.

What the grades mean

90 and above is an A. 80s are a B, 70s a C, 60s a D, and below 60 is an F. If you ask how any specific grade was calculated, the answer is a formula you can check yourself, not a judgment call.

Search your employer on the homepage. If they earned an F, now you know it was earned.