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Senior Data EngineerAcme Corp · New York, NY
Day1
First postedThe role appears with its original description.
- Requirements: 3+ years of experience
- Team: Data Platform
Open 1 day0 reposts
Free Chrome extension
Before you apply, see what the posting won’t tell you.
Find out if the company is really hiring, how long this job has truly been open, and how many times it has been reposted — before you spend hours applying.
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Senior Data EngineerAcme Corp · New York, NY
Day28
RepostedRepostedIt disappears, then returns as “new”.
- Board label: Posted today
- Real age: 28 days
Open 28 days1 repost
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Senior Data EngineerAcme Corp · New York, NY
Day56
Description changedThe title and requirements are edited.
- Requirements:
3+ years5+ years - Title:
Data EngineerSenior Data Engineer
Open 56 days1 repost
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Senior Data EngineerAcme Corp · New York, NY
Day143
Still openThe board shows “2 days ago”. Job Forensic shows the full run.
- Reposted 4 times
- Hiring Activity: Low
Open 143 days4 reposts
Works where you already search
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Everyone is racing to automate the application.
Auto-apply agents. Resume tailoring. ATS matching. A whole category of tools now exists to send your application faster. But before any of that runs, one question comes first: is the job even real?
- Find matching jobsDiscovery and matching
- Tailor the resumeTailored to each posting
- Beat the ATSKeywords and formatting scored
- Auto-apply at scaleApplications sent on autopilot
- ?Is the job even real?The question that comes firstJob Forensic checks this
A few of the tools in the race
TsentaCareer agent that finds matching jobs and applies for you.
JobCopilotApplies every day to jobs listed on company career pages.
LazyApplyChrome extension that applies to jobs in bulk with one click.
LoopCVSearches and applies in the background, every day.
AIApplyResume, cover letter and auto-apply tools in one place.
SimplifyAutofills applications and tracks every one you send.
Jobright.aiAI job search agent with autofill and an apply agent.
MassiveApplies on your behalf with a custom resume for each job.
JobHire.aiFinds matching jobs and submits applications for you.
JobsuitAI resume builder that tailors your resume to each job.
The bigger picture
Drag to match your pace and see how many of your applications could land on ghost jobs.
Per day10of 50 applications
Per month (30 days)300of 1,500 applications
Real openingGhost job 20 of 100
How we estimate: applications per day × 30 days × ghost-job rate. Greenhouse’s rate describes postings on its own platform, not your applications, so your real number will vary with the boards, industries and roles you apply to.
39%
of hiring managers surveyed said their company posted a fake job in the past year.
This counts companies that posted at least one, not the share of listings. CNBC explains
Resume Builder survey of 649 hiring managers, May 2024Source
3 in 5
candidates say they suspect they’ve come across a ghost job.
Greenhouse 2024 State of Job Hunting, about 2,500 workers in the US, UK and GermanySource
3 in 10
companies said they currently have a fake job listing up.
Resume Builder survey, May 2024Source
Statistics are from 2024 and may have changed. Job Forensic does not claim to prove that any individual job is fake. It surfaces hiring patterns so you can decide.
What Job Forensic adds to the race.
Use whichever tool you like to find, tailor and send applications. Job Forensic answers the question that comes before all of them.
Evidence, with a confidence level
Every job gets a Hiring Activity rating of High, Medium or Low, plus a confidence score that shows how much history stands behind it. We show you evidence, not a verdict.
The full timeline of the job
See when a posting first appeared and whether it was removed, returned, reposted or edited. Job boards show one “posted” label. We show the history behind it.
The whole company, not one posting
Hiring by department and country, visa sponsorship, required experience and the company’s hiring trend, so you know where the real openings are.
Built to plug in
Start with the free Chrome extension. Pro, coming soon, adds alerts and an MCP so your AI assistant can use the same data before it applies anywhere.
Use any tool in the race. Check the job first.
Add to Chrome – freeA job post is a snapshot. Hiring is a story.
Forensic sequence reconstruction · Sample data
239-Day Requisition Chronology
Observed: Jan 11 → Present (Cumulative 239 Days)
- 1Jan 11First ObservedOrigin requisition indexed
- 2Feb 03JD Modified4% text delta updated
- 3Mar 27RemovedDormant for 18 days
- 4Apr 14ReturnedRe-indexed with same ID
- 5Jun 09RemovedDormant for 23 days
- 6Jul 02RepostedATS timestamp reset
- 7TodayActive (Day 239)Labeled “2 days ago”
Six steps from job post to smarter decisions.
Sample data from the extension popup
See which teams are really hiring, week by week.
Added vs. removed roles, job-family mix and open-role age for each department. Sample company, sample data.
open roles
30-day change
avg. days open
roles reposted
Roles added vs. removed per weekAddedRemoved
Open roles by job family
Every company, one page of evidence.
Click Know More in the extension and land here. Sample company, sample data.
jobforensic.com/company/acme-corp
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Acme Corp
Medium Hiring Activity
System confidence 84%
Open roles
147
Added · 30d
38
Removed · 30d
26
Net change
+12
Avg. days open
58
Closure rate
41%
Overall hiring behavior
Open roles over the last 13 weeks. Hover the line.
11%
roles reposted
18%
JD edited after posting
6%
evergreen-type roles
44d
avg. time to removal
Hiring by country
Share of 147 open roles and 30-day net change
Remote-eligible
19%
Top cities
Hiring by department
Open roles and 30-day change in postings
Visa sponsorshipNew
Detected from job description text
● Mentions sponsorship 34
● States no sponsorship 19
● Not stated 94
● States no sponsorship 19
● Not stated 94
Based on posting wording, not an employer guarantee. Confirm with the recruiter.
Experience required
Years explicitly stated in the description
Recent activity and longest-open roles
Lifecycle events from daily observation
Data AnalystReposted · 3 days ago
ML EngineerNew · today
Product ManagerRemoved · 5 days ago
Staff Data EngineerOpen 214 days · reposted 4×
Top hiring companies
Find companies that are actively hiring.
Explore companies with the highest hiring activity based on real data. Filter by department and discover where opportunities are growing.
Top 10 Companies by Hiring Activity
Sample data · change in open roles over the last 30 days
Three levels, in plain words.
Every result comes with a confidence score, so you know how much history sits behind it. Green means active hiring. Red means the job looks stale. Confidence grows as we collect more data.
Job Forensic Pro · MCP server · Coming soon
Plug real hiring data into the AI you already use.
Job Forensic Pro is an MCP server. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT or any assistant that supports MCP, then ask hiring questions in plain English and get answers backed by our company data.
Your AI assistantIllustrative example
Ask about any company, department or country…↑
Connect once. Ask anywhere.
- Add the Job Forensic MCPConnect it to your assistant the same way you add any MCP server.
- Ask in plain EnglishHiring by department, country, visa sponsorship, experience and pay.
- Get answers and alertsRanked shortlists on demand, plus alerts when new jobs appear or hiring activity changes.
Works with
CClaudeGChatGPT+Any MCP-compatible assistant
What your assistant will be able to answer
Hiring by department
See which teams are growing, holding steady or slowing down.
Which teams at Stripe are growing?
Hiring by country
Know where a company is adding roles, and where it is pulling back.
Where is Datadog hiring outside the US?
Visa sponsorship
Spot which companies and roles mention sponsoring visas.
Mentions sponsorship 34States no sponsorship 19Not stated 94
Which of these roles sponsor visas?
Required experience
See how many years each department actually asks for.
Engineering
Data
Sales
0–2 yrs3–5 yrs6+ yrs
What experience does Data ask for?
Average salary
Compare pay ranges by role, company and location.
median $150K
$128K$176K
Illustrative range · Senior Data Engineer, New York
What does Senior Data pay at Stripe?
Alerts
Get told when new jobs appear or when hiring activity meaningfully changes.
New job · Staff Data Engineer · Datadog
Stripe hiring activity rose to High
Alert me when Stripe’s hiring changes.
Specialized top-hiring lists
Describe what you’re looking for and get a ranked shortlist of the companies hiring most for it: department, country, seniority, visa support.
DataCanadaSeniorVisa sponsorship
Who is hiring Senior Data people in Canada and sponsors visas?
1DDatabricks
+49%
2SSnowflake
+41%
3NNVIDIA
+38%
Pro is coming soon. Join the waitlist and we’ll tell you when the MCP opens.
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Add to Chrome – free- Job Forensic Chrome extensionHiring Activity, listing age and repost count on every job you open.
- Basic company profile pagesOpen roles, hiring trend and tracked history for every company.
- 3 full company reports, on usUnlock the complete intelligence page for any three companies and see the full picture.
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Join the waitlist- Job Forensic Chrome extensionHiring Activity, listing age and repost count on every job you open.
- Unlimited full company reportsHiring by department, country, visa sponsorship, experience and more, for every company we track.
- Smart hiring alertsGet notified about new jobs and meaningful shifts in hiring activity for the companies, roles, domains, fields and departments you follow.
Want AI access? Pro adds the MCP and top-hiring lists.
Pro
Coming soonFor power users who want AI working on their search too.
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Billed monthly
Join the waitlist- Limited access to the Job Forensic MCPPro onlyConnect Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-compatible assistant and ask hiring questions in plain English.
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- Plus everything in Plus:
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Hiring history for the companies you’re applying to.
We add 100+ new companies every day, so the list keeps growing.
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- companies tracked
- 800K+
- jobs tracked daily
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- new companies added daily
Stop guessing which jobs are real.
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Add to Chrome – freeQuestions, answered.
Short answers about how Job Forensic works and what it can and can’t tell you.
What does Hiring Activity mean?
Hiring Activity is Job Forensic’s assessment of how actively a company appears to be hiring for a specific role. We analyze the job’s historical behavior together with broader company hiring patterns, such as how long the role has been active, reposting behavior, job-description changes, and company-wide job movement. The result is shown as High, Medium, or Low to help you quickly understand the strength of the hiring activity behind the posting.
Can you prove a job is fake?
No. Job Forensic does not label jobs as “fake” or claim to know a company’s internal intentions. Instead, we identify patterns that may indicate lower hiring activity, such as unusually long posting histories, repeated reposting, or weaker company-wide hiring behavior. Our goal is to give you better context so you can make a more informed decision before applying.
Do you track internal hiring?
Not directly. Job Forensic analyzes publicly available job postings and hiring behavior that we can observe over time. We do not have access to a company’s private recruiting systems, internal headcount plans, or confidential hiring decisions. Our intelligence is based on observable external hiring activity.
Is the extension free?
Yes. The Job Forensic Chrome extension is free to use and gives you a quick view of a job’s Hiring Activity, System Confidence, and key historical signals. More detailed company and hiring intelligence may be available through the Job Forensic website and future premium features.
What is the Job Forensic MCP?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to outside tools and data. Job Forensic Pro will be an MCP server you can attach to the assistant you already use, such as Claude or ChatGPT, so it can look up company hiring data, build shortlists and set alerts for you. It is coming soon, and you can join the waitlist in the Pro section.
When will Plus and Pro be available?
Plus and Pro are coming soon. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you when they open. The Chrome extension and basic company pages are free, and you can unlock three full company reports without paying.