Wigiwork FAQ

Wigiwork is a private Discovery Network where tech professionals can remain anonymous while companies discover them for remote, hybrid, and onsite roles. Companies search by skills, salary expectations, availability, and location, then use Profile Access through the approvals and settings you control.

Your anonymous profile combines Wigi Highlights with key professional signals such as your tech stack, experience, work preferences, achievements, and salary target—without displaying your name, contact details, or real profile photo. Verified companies and approved agencies can review this profile before using Wigiwork's consent-based access controls.

Companies use Wigiwork to hire remote developers, software engineers, and AI engineers through a private Discovery Network. Hiring teams search anonymous profiles by tech stack, salary, and availability across the USA, Europe, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, then request access when a role and professional match.

Many of these professionals are employed and do not apply on public job boards. Wigiwork uses consent-based access, so the anonymous profile is reviewed first. Identity access happens only through the professional's approval or chosen Automatic Access settings. Companies pay on action, with no placement fees or recruiter commissions.

Yes. Wigiwork is free for tech professionals to join, create an anonymous profile, set a salary target, manage visibility, and receive access requests from verified companies. There is no fee to stay discoverable or explore remote, hybrid, and onsite roles.

Wigiwork automatically creates your Wigi Highlights and refreshes them as your professional profile changes. Software engineers, AI specialists, fintech professionals, data engineers, and security talent can remain available to the market without paying subscriptions, commissions, or placement fees.

Wigiwork keeps your direct identity and contact details hidden during anonymous discovery, so you can explore opportunities without publicly announcing a job search. Verified companies see only your anonymous profile until you approve access, and you can block specific employers, competitors, or domains.

This supports professionals who are employed, under NDA, or working in sensitive sectors. Your Wigi Highlights can stay discoverable for remote developer, fintech, AI, cloud, or engineering roles while identity access follows the approvals and settings you control.

Companies search the Discovery Network by skills, salary, location, availability, and work preference. When a profile aligns, Wigiwork can Shortlist the professional and the company can send an Access Request. The professional then reviews the role anonymously and decides whether to approve.

This process shifts hiring from public applications to consent-based access. Companies review fit before contact, while professionals avoid recruiter spam, identity exposure, and salary mismatch. The result is a more structured path from discovery to conversation.

When a company requests access, you receive the name of the requesting company or approved agency, together with the available role details and compensation information, while your identity remains hidden.

You can approve, decline, block, or reply anonymously. Profile Access reveals the approved profile details and your verified email, while any additional contact details remain optional. For Private Listings, the approved agency or recruiter may be shown while the underlying hiring company remains hidden until the relevant connection is accepted.

Wigiwork helps tech professionals find remote tech jobs across the USA, Europe, Ukraine, and wider Eastern Europe without applying publicly. You set your salary target, location, and availability, and verified companies request access when your anonymous profile matches the role.

This includes remote developer, AI engineer, fintech, DevOps, data, QA, mobile, and cybersecurity opportunities. Because salary and work format are shown upfront on the anonymous profile, professionals can filter out misaligned roles before Profile Access is granted.

Wigiwork lets you set your salary target upfront, so companies see compensation expectations before requesting access. This helps reduce lowball offers and lets both sides confirm salary alignment before an interview begins.

Professionals can use a fixed floor or flexible range, choose a preferred currency, and define payment terms such as hourly or yearly. Salary, availability, and location are visible in the anonymous profile, helping hiring managers evaluate fit before contact.

LinkedIn is public and identity-first, while Wigiwork is private and access-first. Companies discover anonymous profiles by skills, salary, and availability, while identity access stays under the professional's control.

This changes the hiring flow. Instead of identity-first public profiles and open applications, Wigiwork uses anonymous profiles, Wigi Highlights, and user-controlled access. That structure is useful for professionals who want market visibility without public job-seeking.

Wigiwork is built for verified tech startups, SaaS companies, AI teams, fintech firms, enterprise employers, and approved recruitment agencies hiring specialist tech professionals. Each employer or agency workspace must complete verification before accessing the Discovery Network.

These employers hire remote developers, AI engineers, product managers, DevOps engineers, cybersecurity professionals, data specialists, and other technical talent across the USA, Europe, Ukraine, Poland, and wider Eastern Europe. Verification helps limit spam and low-quality outreach.

Companies discover your profile by searching the Discovery Network using skills, experience, salary target, availability, and work preferences. If your anonymous profile matches, Wigiwork can Shortlist it for the role and the company can request access.

Your Wigi Highlights gives hiring teams enough context to assess fit without showing your direct identity. This helps remote developers, AI engineers, cloud specialists, and senior technical professionals stay visible to the market without using a public resume.

On Wigiwork, companies and approved agencies start the conversation by sending an Access Request or a credited first message based on your anonymous profile. The professional reviews the role, salary, and company details first, then decides whether to respond.

This changes the usual job application flow. Professionals can stay visible to the market while employed, review opportunities privately, and reply anonymously or approve, decline, or block an Access Request—without publicly exposing their job search or missing the right opportunity.

When you approve a request, the company or approved agency can view the profile details included in the access you grant for a defined period. At that point they can review deeper profile details and move the conversation forward with direct contact.

Because the company already reviewed skills, role fit, salary target, and availability before requesting, the conversation starts with more context. This reduces repetitive screening and makes the process more useful for both sides.

Wigiwork verifies companies and approved recruitment agencies before they can access the network. Verification reviews business information, company details, and the accountable workspace owner before employer access is approved.

The goal is to reduce fake companies, spam, and low-quality outreach. Professionals can still review the requesting company before approving access, which adds another layer of control to the consent-based process.

No. Wigiwork does not require a public identity-based profile or public resume. You build the profile. Wigiwork automatically generates your Wigi Highlights, while skills, work preferences, and salary expectations remain visible and your direct identity stays hidden during discovery.

This model is useful for employed professionals, professionals under NDA, and people who want to explore remote or hybrid roles privately. Full Profile Access happens only through your approval or the Automatic Access settings you choose.

Wigiwork supports discovery for senior roles such as CTO, fractional CTO, technical lead, engineering manager, product leader, and specialist consulting positions. Professionals can define role type, availability, salary, and preferred work model in the profile.

That helps companies search for leadership talent by experience, location, and hiring format. It is also useful for senior professionals who want to stay available to the market without publishing that interest publicly.

No. Wigiwork is built for direct employers, startup founders, hiring managers, internal talent teams, and approved recruitment agencies. Every organization must apply for verified access before it can use the Discovery Network.

Verification uses accountable business details, including the registered company name and registration information where available. This keeps access limited to accountable organizations rather than open browsing by unknown users.

Yes. Wigiwork supports team-based hiring workflows for founders, hiring managers, internal recruiting teams, and approved agencies. A verified workspace can manage anonymous discovery, Access Requests, roles, and professional conversations in one place.

This is useful for companies hiring across multiple functions or geographies. Team collaboration matters when sourcing developers, product managers, data specialists, or security talent across the USA and Europe at the same time.

Yes. Recruitment agencies and staffing firms can use Wigiwork after verification and approval. Approved agencies then operate within the same privacy, trust, and consent-based access rules as direct employers.

Agencies can search anonymous profiles and request access, while identity access remains controlled by the professional's approvals and Automatic Access settings. The model keeps agency participation structured rather than open-ended.

No. Wigiwork does not use placement fees, recruiter commissions, salary markups, or monthly retainers. The platform uses a transparent action-based credit model instead.

That difference matters for employers comparing cost across recruiters, job boards, and internal sourcing tools. Companies pay when they take a step such as request access, not through percentage-based recruiter fees.

Yes. A verified company account can manage multiple roles across different tech stacks, locations, and work formats. This includes remote, hybrid, onsite, full-time, contract, and specialist hiring streams.

That is helpful for teams running parallel hiring for software engineering, product, cloud, QA, or fintech roles. One workspace can centralize discovery activity while keeping access requests tied to the correct role context.

Wigiwork was created to give tech professionals a private way to explore better opportunities without going public. The platform combines anonymous profiles, salary visibility, and user-controlled access so companies can discover fit before Profile Access is granted.

This responds to common problems in tech hiring such as recruiter spam, public exposure, and salary mismatch. It is especially relevant for employed professionals who want market visibility without broadcasting that they are open to change.

Wigiwork is built for professionals across software engineering, AI, fintech, data, product, design, cybersecurity, and other technical fields. It is also built for companies that want access to private, off-market talent rather than only active applicants.

The model is useful for people who are employed, discreet, or not using public job boards. It is also useful for hiring teams trying to reach private, off-market professionals through more structured signals.

Companies find employed tech professionals on Wigiwork by searching anonymous profiles through the Discovery Network. The search uses skills, experience, salary targets, location, availability, and work preferences rather than public resume data.

When there is fit, the company sends an Access Request. Identity access then follows the professional's approval or chosen Automatic Access settings. This gives companies a path to off-market talent while allowing professionals to remain anonymous until they choose otherwise.

Traditional job boards are built around public resumes and active applications, while Wigiwork is built around private discovery. On Wigiwork, identity stays hidden during discovery and access follows the professional's approvals and chosen settings.

That changes both visibility and workflow. Instead of applying into a public feed, Wigiwork creates your Wigi Highlights and lets aligned employers discover you with role and salary context already attached.

Wigiwork addresses privacy risk, recruiter spam, salary mismatch, and wasted outreach in tech hiring. Professional identity stays hidden during discovery, while professionals control access and companies review structured signals before making contact.

This helps reduce noisy sourcing and low-fit conversations. It also gives hiring teams a clearer way to reach developers, product managers, and specialists who do not want public exposure while remaining open to the right role.

Many tech professionals avoid job boards because public applications can expose their job search, generate recruiter noise, waste valuable time, and push them into high-volume hiring pipelines with weak salary alignment.

Wigiwork replaces that pattern with private discovery, salary visibility, verification, and consent-based access. The result is a more structured process for companies and a more controlled market presence for professionals.

Wigiwork is designed to get your profile set up in just a few minutes by adding your skills, salary target, location, experience, and work preferences. The platform then generates your anonymous profile and Wigi Highlights for discovery by verified companies.

This gives professionals a private way to enter the market without publishing a resume. Setup is designed for software engineers, AI specialists, fintech professionals, and other tech professionals who want controlled visibility rather than public exposure.

To join Wigiwork, you add your technical skills, work history, salary target, location, and preferred work format such as remote, hybrid, or onsite. This information supports the anonymous profile and Wigi Highlights used for discovery.

Personal identity details remain hidden during discovery. Companies use the anonymous version of your profile to evaluate role fit, while deeper identifying information is shared only through Profile Access and sharing controls you choose.

Yes. Your profile is anonymous from day one. Your direct identity stays hidden during discovery and is shared only through Profile Access or sharing controls you choose.

This means you can stay visible to the market without turning on public job-seeking signals. It is useful for employed professionals exploring new opportunities without public exposure.

Yes. You can change your visibility, go Offline, or reactivate your profile at any time. This lets you step in and out of the market without losing your profile history, skills, salary target, or saved preferences.

That makes Wigiwork useful beyond a one-time job search. Professionals can keep the Wigi Highlights ready long term and adjust visibility as their role, availability, or career goals change.

Wigiwork helps professionals find remote developer and AI engineer jobs across the USA, Europe, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe. Verified companies search anonymous profiles and request access when skills, salary, availability, and work format align.

This also applies to fintech, DevOps, data, QA, mobile, cloud, and cybersecurity roles. Because the profile stays anonymous during discovery, professionals can explore remote opportunities while employed and keep identity access under their approvals and chosen settings.

Wigiwork helps reduce fake remote tech jobs by verifying companies and showing professionals the company and opportunity context before Profile Access is granted. Professionals can review who is contacting them and why.

Your anonymous Wigi profile shows your work format and salary expectations, while each opportunity includes the role context—helping you spot mismatches before granting Profile Access.

Wigiwork protects data by separating personal identity details from the searchable professional profile. Verified companies first review anonymous skills, experience, salary target, and role fit. Your verified email and approved profile details are shared only when Profile Access is granted through your approvals or chosen settings.

This structure reduces unnecessary exposure during discovery. It lets professionals in sensitive roles be discovered while controlling access to identity and deeper profile details.

No. Companies and approved agencies cannot search for candidates using a name, email address, phone number, or current or previous employer name.

Employer discovery is based on professional criteria such as skills, seniority, salary expectations, availability, location, and role fit. This prevents Wigiwork's employer search from being used to look for a specific person or employees of a named company.

Consent-based identity access means your direct identity details are not revealed through ordinary profile discovery. Verified companies can review your anonymous profile and Wigi Highlights, but identity access is provided only through controls you have authorized.

This may happen when you approve an Access Request or when a company meets the Automatic Access settings you have chosen. You can manage or revoke access through your Wigiwork controls.

Wigiwork reduces scraping risk by limiting exposed profile data, restricting employer access to verified organizations, and keeping identity behind user-controlled access. Employer discovery runs through a restricted Discovery Network—not an open resume database, social platform, or public job board. It's where professionals can be discovered while keeping their identity protected.

Because profile access is permission-based, the visible data surface is narrower than on public sites. Verification, limited access, and identity separation all help reduce the kinds of scraping and mass data collection common on open platforms.

Yes. Wigiwork is designed for professionals and employers that need more discretion, including fintech, cybersecurity, enterprise technology, and other regulated or sensitive technical roles. Privacy controls are built into the discovery process itself.

Anonymous profiles, company verification, identity separation, and consent-based access all support hiring in environments where confidentiality matters. This is relevant for both the professional and the employer side of the workflow.

Wigiwork keeps your name, contact details, profile photo, and employer hidden by default, so you can look for tech jobs anonymously. Companies see only your anonymous profile, including skills, experience level, salary target, and work preferences.

Your anonymous profile includes Wigi Highlights that help companies understand your professional fit without identifying you. Identity access happens only through your approval or the Automatic Access settings you choose, which is useful for employed professionals and professionals under NDA.

Yes. Wigiwork is designed for professionals who need discretion because of NDAs, confidentiality obligations, or sensitive work. The anonymous profile lets you present technical capabilities, leadership experience, and salary target without exposing employer information.

This is relevant for fintech, cybersecurity, enterprise, AI, and infrastructure roles where confidentiality matters. The Discovery Network allows market visibility while reducing the risk that a public profile could reveal sensitive employer associations.

Permission-based access means companies can discover your anonymous profile, while identity access happens only through your approval or the Automatic Access settings you choose. When a company is interested, it sends an Access Request and waits for your decision before Profile Access is granted. During this time, you can review the company and opportunity, then choose whether to approve or decline access.

This keeps the hiring process structured. You can approve, decline, block, or ask questions anonymously first, making it easier to review salary, role, and company fit before granting Profile Access.

Yes. Wigiwork lets you block companies, domains, emails, names, and other identifiers from your dashboard. This helps prevent your current employer, a competitor, or any unwanted organization from discovering your anonymous profile.

Blocking works alongside your profile visibility settings and access controls. Together, these features let professionals stay discoverable to the wider market while excluding specific companies from the Discovery Network.

Not necessarily. Companies can still evaluate your skills, salary target, availability, and role fit while your identity stays hidden. If the company sees alignment, it can send an Access Request, and you decide what Profile Access to grant.

The anonymous profile removes identity from the first step, but it does not remove the signals needed for hiring. For many professionals, that makes market participation easier because privacy and visibility can exist at the same time.

Fully Anonymous shows your core professional story — title, skills, experience, location, and salary target — with no name, no photo, and no employer names. Semi-Anonymous adds your work-experience descriptions so companies see the depth of what you've done. Open Profile opens the profile sections you choose to logged-in, verified hiring accounts.

In every mode, your name, real photo, and contact details are designed to stay hidden until you grant Profile Access — and the public internet only ever sees the Fully Anonymous version. Switch modes anytime from your dashboard.

We strip direct identity from your profile, our systems flag details that look like they'd give you away, and employers are strictly prohibited from trying to identify anonymous candidates outside approved workflows. But honesty matters here: a truly distinctive combination — a rare title, an exact tenure, a one-of-a-kind project — can narrow things down if someone is determined.

The fix is simple: keep your visible details true but general. And if you ever suspect someone tried to identify you, report it at privacy@wigiwork.com or via Report a Concern — we investigate and enforce.

Report it in one tap from Anonymous View. Highlights are built from your full profile to make your strongest case, and they're designed to leave out your name, contacts, photo, and employer names — when something slips through, we act on it.

Your Highlight also regenerates automatically after you update your profile, so keeping your details accurate keeps your Highlight sharp and safe at the same time.

Your real photo is never displayed — every WigiPic is a stylized illustration. But one generated from your own photo can resemble you, which makes it a little easier for someone who knows you to connect the dots. It's a style choice, and it's yours to make.

For maximum anonymity, pick a WigiPic from the archive that doesn't look like you. Either way, it pairs with the rest of your anonymity controls — it never replaces them.

One tap gives you a new username, a new WigiPic, and a new anonymous profile ID, regenerates your Wigi Highlight, and revokes any active Profile Access and share links. Your professional profile and Profile Strength stay fully intact — a clean identity, zero rebuild.

Identity Reset is permanent, and it can't erase what previous viewers may have saved or remembered — which is exactly why it pairs well with switching to a more private mode at the same time.

Wigiwork lets professionals set a salary target upfront so verified companies can see compensation expectations before requesting access. This helps align role and budget earlier in the hiring process.

Your salary target appears on your anonymous profile alongside Wigi Highlights, skills, availability, and work model. That allows hiring managers to evaluate compensation fit before identity is revealed or a conversation begins.

Wigiwork does not technically block a company from sending a request below your stated salary or rate expectation. However, your expectation is displayed before the company requests access, so it sees your terms before contacting you.

You can quickly decline any request that does not meet your expectations. Deliberately misleading candidates, manipulating compensation information, or repeatedly disregarding stated expectations may violate Wigiwork's employer rules and lead to account restrictions.

Yes. You can indicate whether your salary or rate expectation is fixed or flexible, using the compensation options available for your profile.

Companies see your expectation before requesting access. This helps establish compensation alignment early, although Wigiwork does not technically prevent every company from submitting a request below it.

Yes. Wigiwork supports multiple currencies across regions, so professionals can define salary targets in USD and other currencies. They can also set payment terms such as hourly, weekly, monthly, or yearly.

This matters for cross-border hiring across the USA and Europe, where role budgets may be managed in different currencies. Clear salary expectations help companies confirm alignment before sending an Access Request.

Wigiwork reduces lowball offers by displaying your salary or rate expectation before a company requests access. This allows companies to review compensation alignment before starting a conversation.

Wigiwork does not impose automatic salary floors based on country, role, or skills, and it does not technically block every request below your expectation. You remain in control of whether to approve or decline, while misleading or manipulative employer behaviour may result in enforcement action.

Wigiwork is a private alternative to LinkedIn and public job boards for hiring developers. Companies discover anonymous profiles of employed or off-market tech professionals, review skills and salary expectations, and request access only when there is hiring fit.

The Discovery Network focuses on structured signals rather than public visibility. Hiring teams can review work model, location, availability, and role alignment before contact, which helps when sourcing software engineers, remote developers, and technical specialists who do not apply publicly.

Wigiwork helps companies hire remote developers, software engineers, AI engineers, and fintech professionals across the USA, Europe, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe. Hiring teams search anonymous profiles by tech stack, salary budget, availability, and location, then request access when fit is clear.

This is useful for companies hiring across markets such as the USA, UK, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and wider Europe. Identity access happens only through the professional's approval or chosen Automatic Access settings.

Yes, after the professional grants Profile Access. Every Profile Access includes a verified contact email, while additional contact details and profile sections depend on the access granted.

Before Profile Access, the company reviews the anonymous profile and Wigi Highlights. That lets hiring managers assess skills, experience, work model, location, salary, and availability first, while professionals keep control over identity and timing.

Wigiwork includes software engineers, remote developers, AI and machine learning engineers, data specialists, fintech professionals, cybersecurity talent, cloud and infrastructure engineers, QA engineers, mobile developers, and product leaders. Profiles are structured around skills, experience, salary, and work model.

This lets hiring teams evaluate fit before identity is revealed. Companies can search by stack, location, seniority, and availability across the USA and Europe, then request access only when the profile matches the role.

Wigiwork uses a credit model with no placement fees, recruiter commissions, salary markups, or monthly retainers. Companies can review anonymous profile summaries first and use credits only when they take an action, such as sending an Access Request.

This gives hiring teams more cost control than traditional recruiter models. Instead of paying a percentage of salary, companies decide when to use credits on contact actions for aligned developers, data engineers, QA engineers, or mobile specialists.

Traditional tech hiring often prioritizes volume over alignment. Job boards generate large applicant pools, cold outreach depends on public data, and recruiters can add retainers or placement fees without improving fit.

Wigiwork uses anonymous profiles, salary visibility, and consent-based access instead. Companies review structured information before contact, while off-market professionals can be discovered privately. That makes the process more focused for both hiring teams and professionals.

Wigiwork is not a public resume database, recruiter workflow, or inferred-intent sourcing tool. Professionals create anonymous profiles directly, define salary and availability, and control identity access through their approvals and chosen settings.

Companies search a Discovery Network built on professional-provided data rather than inferred public signals. That difference matters for hiring managers comparing recruiter fees, LinkedIn outreach, and sourcing tools that still depend on public visibility.

Every company and agency workspace must complete verification before accessing the Discovery Network. Wigiwork reviews organizational legitimacy, accountability, registration information where available, and signs of real hiring intent.

Verification is designed to improve trust before contact begins. It helps professionals deal with fewer fake roles, lower-quality recruiters, and organizations that do not have a clear reason to access anonymous profiles.

Verification is required because employer access is restricted and professional identity stays hidden during discovery. Wigiwork checks the organizations requesting access so professionals can evaluate requests from verified entities rather than unknown or unconfirmed sources.

This supports a more trusted hiring environment than public platforms. It helps reduce impersonation, spam, and irrelevant outreach while maintaining the privacy model that makes the Discovery Network useful in the first place.

Wigiwork reduces recruiter spam by limiting access to verified companies and approved agencies, showing salary expectations upfront, and keeping identity access under professional control. Companies must be verified, and the first message to a locked profile uses credits.

That makes outreach more structured than on public job boards or open professional networks. Professionals see the company and opportunity context before deciding whether to respond or grant Profile Access.

If a company or approved agency misuses the platform, spams professionals, or misrepresents opportunities, its access can be limited, suspended, or revoked. This helps protect the quality of the Discovery Network.

Enforcement matters because the product depends on trust in anonymous profiles and consent-based access. A verification model without rule enforcement would not protect professionals or maintain signal quality for companies.

Wigiwork is built for verified startups, scaleups, SaaS, AI, fintech, and enterprise technology companies—along with approved agencies—with genuine hiring intent. Activity suggesting fake roles, misleading opportunities, or misuse can trigger review and enforcement.

This does not mean every request is perfect, but it does mean access is tied to a hiring use case rather than open browsing. That gives professionals more context than they usually get on public platforms.

Wigi for Life is your long-term, identity-protected career profile inside Wigiwork. It keeps your skills, work history, salary target, and preferences ready so you can stay available to the market without maintaining a public resume.

The profile supports ongoing visibility rather than a one-time application cycle. Keep your professional profile current and Wigiwork refreshes your Wigi Highlights as it changes, while you choose when to stay visible or go Offline.

Yes. You can update your anonymous profile, skills, work history, salary target, location, and work preferences at any time from the dashboard. You can also adjust your activity status depending on whether you are open to offers or offline.

This makes the profile useful as a long-term career record. Instead of rebuilding a public profile each time you search, you maintain one identity-protected profile that stays current and ready for discovery.

Your Fully Anonymous profile may appear in search results when Public Discoverability is on. Public Discoverability is enabled by default and can be switched off at any time.

Logged-out visitors and search engines only see your Fully Anonymous profile. Your identity stays hidden unless you approve access.

Yes. Wigiwork lets professionals receive opportunities without actively applying to public job listings. Companies search the Discovery Network and send Access Requests when your anonymous profile aligns with a role.

This is useful for employed professionals who are open to better roles but do not want public job-seeking signals. Salary, skills, and work preferences are visible first, while identity access remains controlled by your approvals and chosen settings.

Your Wigiwork profile stays under your control when you change jobs. You can update work history, skills, salary, availability, and visibility settings without losing the rest of your long-term profile.

This makes the Wigi for Life profile portable across employers and career stages. It can remain active or Offline depending on your current goals while keeping the same identity-protected career record intact.