Guessing ATS job board slugs misfires half the time, study of 2,127 firms finds

A developer building a company-to-job-board index across 2,127 firms found that guessing URL slugs from company names works only about 26% of the time, and nearly half of those matches point to the wrong employer. Because Ashby and Lever do not include a company name in their API responses, there is no direct way to confirm board ownership from the payload alone. Greenhouse is the exception, returning a company name field that enables straightforward verification. A common but flawed workaround — comparing the company name against the job URL — simply checks whether the guessed slug matches itself, making it incapable of catching errors. The only reliable cross-platform method is cross-referencing known job titles from an independent source against the titles returned by the board.