I can personally say that I’ve yet to get any pressure from a company to give a positive review. SFFN declines reviews that do that.
I did have one company request we expedite the review good or bad. We didn’t.
There have been companies that have declined to send items to SFFN due to our...
There are four ways to go with covering products:
1. Shill it. (Hey Guys! This is Austin and this product is paying my bills this week! - GN at LTT Roast)
2. Politely review it: Decline stuff that's absolute garbage so you can maintain some form relationship with companies (Most in the tech...
They'll have some excuse, but it probably boils down to the idea that every employee is a sales person. It's a corporate ideal that profit should be extracted at all levels of interaction.