I'm not sure that that's any better. Is a potential employer reading that post going to know that? Is it going to change their perception? Is it enough to balance having falsified information on your resume?
That is ridiculous. This is like saying that no one can ever say "I've worked in a workplace where I felt discriminated against", using their own name and tell how they felt, as whoa, suddenly someone could jump to the conclusion that they now know which employer the person is saying has a discriminatory atmosphere and that the person might as well have named them! Without any chance for the employer to clear their own name! This is so ridiculous it hurts.
To me, this is like me saying "I've met some pretty awful people..." and you saying "How dare you talk about my sister like that!"
My anti-procrast settings kicked in after posting the comment above, but I wanted to add this update. He actually links directly to his CV from that page: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jasonpunyon
According to that CV, the employer was Bigger Hedge Fund.
Kinda a funny coincidence that there's another person with the same name on LinkedIn who also recently quit a programming job at an investment management firm and lives in the NYC area. Anyways, the fact that he links directly to his CV makes it even less anonymous who he's talking about.
Those company names are anonymized (except for my DBA and Stack Exchange). According to that CV I've worked at "A Management Consulting and Reinsurance Company", "Big Hedge Fund" and "Bigger Hedge Fund".
