Onyx is 58 people whose product is a defensible opinion. The work is slow, careful, and occasionally makes powerful people angry. If that reads as a warning, it is. If it reads as a job description, keep going.
Recruiting pages are usually the least credible thing a company publishes. We'd rather you self-select out now than leave at month three.
Every rating carries a named lead reviewer. Every watchlist case names who signed it. When we're wrong, the correction names the same person. Accountability is individual here, not institutional.
Analysts write. Engineers write. The methodology, the cases, the post-mortems — they're all documents first. If producing a careful 4,000-word argument sounds like punishment, this is the wrong company.
Rated projects dispute scores. Some send lawyers. Twice, someone has offered an analyst money. The company's job is to absorb that pressure so the score doesn't move — and so far, it hasn't.
Salary ranges are posted because asking you to guess is a negotiating tactic, and we don't rate projects that play games with disclosure.
The process mirrors the work: written, evidenced, and on a published timeline. We tell you where you stand at every step, including no.
We read every speculative application that includes a piece of work. If you've written something careful about a project we rate — especially something that disagrees with our score — send that.