Got ghosted by tech companies so I built a tool to track ghost jobs
Last year I was looking for a new role. I sent out applications, did the prep, waited. What came back was mostly nothing. Not rejection emails, just silence. The job listings I'd applied to stayed live for weeks. Some for months. As a software engineer, I decided to dig into it properly. I built a system to continuously track job postings across companies, logging posting dates and measuring how long roles stay open before closing or don't. After 35,000+ listings across 200+ companies, some patterns are hard to ignore. Some listings have been open for 700+ days at companies you'd recognize.…
Got ghosted by tech companies so I built a tool to track ghost jobs launched on May 16, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,574 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
The jobs that just won’t close
Roles that remain active for over a year , even at major tech companies. Are these ghost listings, hard-to-fill positions, or permanent open seats? Based on 200+ companies using Greehouse ATS, most companies close a job posting within 60 to 90 days. But a surprising number of roles, across startups and Fortune 500 companies alike, remain open for a year, two years, sometimes longer. These long-running listings may reflect persistently unfilled roles, evergreen hiring pipelines, or internal demand that never fully stabilizes. In other cases, they signal structural inefficiencies in recruiting or deliberate “always-on” hiring strategies. "A listing open for 400 days isn't just a hard role to…from csvfirst.pythonanywhere.com
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Last year I was looking for a new role. I sent out applications, did the prep, waited. What came back was mostly nothing. Not rejection emails, just silence. The job listings I'd applied to stayed live for weeks. Some for months. As a software engineer, I decided to dig into it properly. I built a system to…
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