How the record works.
Every entry records the same things. The facts make it countable. The cost is what the count is for.
Why anonymous
Desperation reads as a red flag, and the people hiring can see your profile. The honest version of your situation is the exact version that hurts you most to post, so it never gets counted.
Post it on LinkedIn and it gets clicks, but it also puts a question in the mind of every recruiter who sees it: why is this person still looking after six months? Friends and family get pieces of it, never the whole story, and holding the rest alone is overwhelming. There is nowhere to be fully honest about this without it costing you.
Here there is. Nothing you write is shown until a person has removed anything that could identify you, and none of it can be traced back to you.
What happens to what you write
The answers you pick from a list count immediately. They are fixed options — a department, a range of months — so there is nothing in them that could name you, and that is what lets the numbers be current rather than curated.
Anything you write in your own words is treated differently. A person reads it and removes anything that could identify you before a word of it is shown. That happens by hand, so it takes a little time. If you give us a way to reach you, it is stored apart from your story, never joined to it.
One limit is worth stating plainly, because it runs the wrong way. This form reaches people who are still looking, so anyone who has already left the field and landed somewhere else has left the sample too. Whatever share of people this market pushes out of tech for good, the number here will be the low estimate.
What the record becomes
When enough people have answered, the numbers show what everyone feels and no one can prove: that doing everything right stopped being enough. That is the thing a headline cannot wave off.
How the platform ranking works
Each person orders only the platforms they actually used, worst first. That matters: a raw count of complaints would rank Workday top simply because more employers put people through it. A relative ballot cannot be won on volume.
The order is the share of a platform’s own users who put it in their worst two. Second place counts, which is what makes it hold up while the numbers are small. The position is the finding; the figure beside each row is how many people ranked it, so you can discount a thin one yourself.
The short phrases under each platform are things people reported, plus a starting set drawn from vendor changelogs, employer applicant-FAQ pages and public bug trackers. They describe what the software does, not what any company intends. Nothing a person submits appears until someone has read it, and no submitted phrase is attached to a named platform before then.
If something here is wrong about your product, write to hello@stilllooking.co and it will be corrected or removed.
Methodology
Self-reported, unverified, self-selected. Every claim shows the number it rests on. We compare people within the record to each other; we never state what share of all workers this represents. It is testimony at scale, not a poll.