Anonymous women's workplace reviews turned into star ratings and "Best Companies" lists — useful first-hand signal, but the rated employers are also the paying customers, and by its own disclosure the scoring method isn't fully published.
What it's really for A women-only employer-review platform aggregating anonymous workplace ratings.
What our grade covers The grade on this page is about its women's ratings of employers, not everything the site does.
Medium Scoring Confidence Mostly sourced, but a detail or two still needs a primary source, so the grade could shift slightly.
- Operating since
- 2014 (12 years) · source
- What it costs you
- Free to read The reviews are free to read.
- How they make money
- A women-only employer-review platform: female employees anonymously rate companies on 15-18 workplace metrics, which roll up into 1-5 star scores and ranked "Best Companies for Women" lists.
- What they do
- It collects anonymous, self-reported ratings from women about their current and former employers and aggregates them into searchable company scores and periodic "best companies" rankings.
- What to watch for
- The reviews are anonymous and self-reported rather than employment-verified, and the same employers being rated are also sold branding, recruiting, and job-matching products — though InHerSight states paying for those products does not let them remove reviews or change ratings.
- Composite score
- 2.60 / 5.00 → grade C+
How the grade was reached
Does the site take money from the very entities it ranks? Pay-for-placement, vendor-funded data, and affiliate commissions all pull this down. The less the ranking can be bought, the higher the score.
What is the ranking actually built on? Hands-on testing scores highest, then verified first-hand reviews, then opinion or popularity surveys and self-reported figures, then pay-to-rank, which scores lowest.
Is the methodology published, specific, and reproducible? Can a reader see how a given rank was reached, or is it a black box?
Are commercial relationships, sponsorships, and affiliate arrangements disclosed clearly and near the rankings themselves, rather than buried?
How hard is it to game? Controls against fake reviews, solicited reviews, and vendor gaming raise this; an open box anyone can stuff lowers it.
Evidence
- InHerSight was founded in 2014 by Ursula Mead (formerly VP at The Motley Fool); CNBC's Upstart 25 notes it launched with $995,000 in funding, with The Motley Fool as lead seed investor, and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. Source: CNBC — Upstart 25: InHerSight →
- Women anonymously rate current or former employers on roughly 15-18 metrics (e.g., management opportunities, maternity leave, salary satisfaction, flexibility) on a 1-5 star scale; ratings are aggregated into company scores, and 'Best Companies' lists require a minimum number of employee submissions to qualify. Source: HuffPost — InHerSight lets women rate employers →
- InHerSight markets paid employer products across awareness/branding, candidate/job-match recruiting, and insights/dashboards, with pricing handled via a sales consultation rather than published publicly. Source: InHerSight for Employers →