Job board scraper bug: Greenhouse ages reset by edit dates, not posting dates
A developer found that a scraper showed zero Greenhouse job postings older than six months, which is implausible for a live job board. The cause was reading an edit timestamp (updated_at) rather than the first-published date, so every recruiter edit reset a listing's apparent age. Switching to the first_published field changed the share of listings older than 180 days from 0.0% to 14.5% across 259 companies. Measured across Greenhouse, Ashby, and Lever boards, the median open role had been posted about 51 days earlier, with roughly 14% older than six months. The author notes that long-running open listings are not necessarily fake, since some teams keep rolling requisitions open for ongoing hiring.
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