Scourcard
How Companies Actually Treat Applicants
A hiring process leaves a trail - how fast they moved, whether anyone told you where you stood, how many rounds turned into how many more. Scourcard is what that trail looks like once enough candidates have walked it.
A job posting tells you what a company wants. It almost never tells you what it's actually like to go through that company's hiring process - whether recruiters respond, whether interviews start on time, whether a rejection ever actually arrives. That gap is exactly what a real, pattern-based read on a company's hiring process is for.
What actually gets rated
Communication
Did anyone tell you where you stood, or did every update require you to chase it? This is the category candidates rate first, and it's usually the one that colors how they remember the whole process.
Speed
Not just how long the process took overall, but whether the pace was ever explained. A slow process with clear expectations reads completely differently than the same timeline with total silence in between.
Respect for your time
Same-day reschedules, a fifth round that wasn't mentioned up front, a take-home assignment that took six hours for a role that never called back - this is the category that catches the process asking more of a candidate than it was ever willing to give in return.
Interview experience
Whether the questions actually reflected the job, whether interviewers seemed prepared, whether it felt like a two-way conversation or an interrogation. The parts of an interview that never make it into a job posting but shape the entire impression of the company.
Scam & ghosting signals
Pulled out and flagged above the star rating on purpose, not folded into the average - the single most important thing to see first if a majority of candidates report the same pattern.
Why this doesn't exist anywhere else
General company-review sites are built around what it's like to work somewhere once you're already hired - compensation, management, culture, the day-to-day. None of that tells you anything about the six weeks before an offer, which is its own, completely separate experience with its own separate failure modes: silence, reschedules, a process that asks more than it gives back.
Scourcard is scoped to exactly that window - built from candidates who actually went through a company's hiring process, rating the specific things that happen during it, with scam and ghosting patterns pulled out and flagged separately rather than averaged away into a single number.
What this looks like in practice
A real Scourcard breakdown, for a role you're considering, before you ever apply.
FAQ
Scourcard, answered.
Where does the data on a company's Scourcard actually come from?
Real candidates who went through that company's process, rating it across the same categories every time - communication, speed, respect for their time, interview experience - plus a separate flag for scam or ghosting patterns when enough candidates report the same thing.
Can one bad review tank a company's Scourcard?
No - a single rating is one data point, not a verdict. Scourcard is built to surface patterns across enough candidates that one outlier experience (good or bad) doesn't define the whole picture.
Is Scourcard the same thing as a general company-review site?
No - general review sites are almost entirely about what it's like to work somewhere once you're hired. Scourcard is scoped specifically to the hiring process itself: how a company treats you before you ever get an offer.
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