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Companies keeping their job boards up to date

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Senior Software Engineer at Taro Community19 days ago

I have applied for a few positions that sometimes I get an email saying they filled the position (but the position still remains on their website).

What's the best way to make sure this is fresh (so we avoid wasting time on jobs that have already been filled)?

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    Tech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
    17 days ago

    Many job boards show a timestamp indicating when the job was posted (including jobs on Taro). Use this to find jobs in the last 2-3 days. Anything above a week is quite old and will already have had tons of applicants.

    The quality of the job board also matters a lot. For larger platforms, you'll come across recruiting agencies who are further removed from the actual job, and you'll have "ghost" jobs from larger companies that are not being monitored.

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    Tech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
    17 days ago

    It is almost impossible to keep jobs up to date. Often times the recruiter/hiring manager will forget to take down a job posting after it's been filled. Sometimes the position is 90% of the way to being filled (i.e. an offer has been extended), but they're leaving up the job posting just in case the candidate rejects. Sometimes the recruiter behind the job posting literally got laid off, and the headcount was also shut down (this unfortunately happens quite a lot in the current market).

    As Rahul mentioned, heavily prioritize the fresh jobs, those posted within the last 3 days. For top companies (e.g. FAANG), you want to apply within the first 24 hours as those companies can easily get 500+ applicants within the 1st day - I remember a Netflix SW1 position got 2,500+ applicants within 24 hours!

    After you go through the jobs that are younger than 3 days, you can apply to others if you have time. If a job has been up for 1 month+, it's almost certainly dead.

    I hope this helps as well: "What are the best websites for applying for tech jobs?"

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      Senior Software Engineer
      Taro Community
      17 days ago

      Thanks this is great advice to apply for fresh jobs! The company said they’d keep me in mind, sorta bummer it was filled since it was an earlier stage niche AI startup, but I’m glad I got a response which not everyone gets.

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      Tech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
      14 days ago

      The company said they’d keep me in mind, sorta bummer it was filled since it was an earlier stage niche AI startup, but I’m glad I got a response which not everyone gets.

      I'm glad they didn't ghost you - That is hard for companies to do in the current market as any decent company is swamped with candidates and will inevitably forget some of them.

      If you felt like the "We'll keep you in mind" was genuine, I would reach out again in 3-6 months and see how they're feeling. Maybe you'll catch them right before they throw up a job posting, hehe.