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ResearchMarch 13, 2026· 6 min read

xAI Posted 6 Identical Senior Roles in 48 Hours. Five Days Later, the Cofounders Were Gone.

Job postings are corporate exhaust. When a company suddenly posts 6 identical senior roles in 48 hours, something happened. We built a detector that catches these signals before the press does.

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ResearchMarch 9, 2026· 7 min read

We Analyzed 52,000 Job Listings for Ghost Jobs. Your Odds Are Worse Than You Think.

52,398 listings. 1,778 companies. Nearly a third of all dated postings are older than 90 days. Here's what the data actually looks like inside the hiring pipeline — and which companies are worth your time.

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EngineeringMarch 7, 2026· 6 min read

How We Built a Job Data Pipeline on a $30 Database

We built a distributed job market data pipeline — ATS scraping across a dozen providers, a three-stage domain validation gate, dozens of enrichment sources, and 7 VMs coordinated through a $30 Postgres database. Here's how.

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GuideMarch 5, 2026· 4 min read

Do ATS Systems Actually Reject Your Resume? What Job Seekers Get Wrong

Applicant tracking systems aren't rejecting you because of a missing keyword. Here's what's actually happening — and why you should check if a job is real before tailoring your resume.

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GuideMarch 3, 2026· 4 min read

How to Spot a Ghost Job Posting: 4 Red Flags (2026)

About a third of job listings show poor quality signals. Here's how to evaluate whether a job posting deserves your application before you spend 45 minutes on a Workday form.

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ResearchMarch 1, 2026· 5 min read

Job Listing Quality Statistics 2026: We Scored 1,000 Listings

How many job listings are actually worth applying to? We scored 1,000 real listings with a 51-signal quality engine and validated against two frontier LLMs. Here's what the data shows.

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