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# How old are the open jobs on Greenhouse careers pages? We measured 5 companies

Most careers pages run on a board such as Greenhouse or Lever, and the board's public API lists every open job with the day it was first posted. We read 25 open jobs each at 5 companies. At Figma, 21 of the 25 were 60 days old or more; at Stripe, 7.

By OpenKrill. Published 2026-10-08. Updated 2026-10-08.

## The short answer

| Company | 60 days or older (of 25) | Median age | Oldest |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stripe | 7 | 35 days | 270 days |
| Airbnb | 8 | 38 days | 258 days |
| Figma | 21 | 269 days | 633 days |
| Databricks | 13 | 65 days | 1,031 days |
| Anthropic | 9 | 52 days | 657 days |

All 5 companies use Greenhouse. Each answer holds at most 25 jobs per company, in the order the board lists them, and on 2026-10-08 all 5 boards held more than that.

So read each row as a sample of 25 postings, not the whole board. Age counts from the day the board says the job was first published.

## How to find open jobs on a Greenhouse or Lever board

A Greenhouse careers page has a board name, such as `stripe` in `job-boards.greenhouse.io/stripe`. The public Job Board API lists that board's jobs as JSON, each with a `first_published` date. Lever, Ashby and SmartRecruiters publish similar APIs.

Company Jobs Finder does the lookup for you. Give it a company name, and it finds the board and returns each job's title, department, locations, posting day and apply link.

Filters for a keyword, a location, remote work and a "posted since" day narrow the list. The [answers about company job searches](https://tools.openkrill.app/answers/company-jobs) show sample questions and results.

## Is an old posting a ghost job?

Not by itself. A ghost job is a listing a company has no real plan to fill, and a long-open posting is the first sign people point to.

The US labor statistics survey counts a job as open only when it could start within 30 days and the company is actively recruiting. A posting cannot show either from outside.

Some roles stay open on purpose: sales roles, hard-to-fill senior roles, and postings that hire several people. Use age as a question for the recruiter, together with a vague description or no named team.

## What these numbers cannot show

- **Reposts.** If a company closes a job and posts it again as a new job, the new posting gets its own first-published date, so the age starts over.
- **Hiring activity.** The board shows what is listed, not how many people applied or were hired.
- **The rest of the board.** The sample is the first 25 jobs in the board's own order. A full count needs every page of the board.

To run the same check on companies you care about, follow the [Company Jobs Finder install guide for Claude](https://tools.openkrill.app/integrations/company-jobs/claude). More job search tools are on the page of [tools for job seekers](https://tools.openkrill.app/for/job-seeker).

**Try it:** run the same check yourself with [Company Jobs Finder](https://tools.openkrill.app/integrations/company-jobs/claude), with no key, or read every post on the [Agent Tools blog](https://tools.openkrill.app/blog).

## Sources

- [@VadimStrizheus on X](https://x.com/VadimStrizheus/status/2105696780939882972): points out how many job board listings are ghost jobs that nobody plans to fill.
- [@brandon_galang on X](https://x.com/brandon_galang/status/2107612087157473379): lists applied AI roles and where to find them on company boards.
- [Greenhouse, Job Board API](https://developers.greenhouse.io/job-board.html): the public, keyless board API; each job carries first_published and updated_at dates.
- [Lever, Postings API](https://github.com/lever/postings-api): the public postings API behind Lever careers pages.
- [Ashby, Job Postings API](https://developers.ashbyhq.com/docs/public-job-posting-api): every published posting of a company, each with a publishedAt time.
- [SmartRecruiters, Posting API](https://developers.smartrecruiters.com/docs/posting-api): the public job postings of a SmartRecruiters company.
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, JOLTS definitions](https://www.bls.gov/jlt/jltdef.htm): a job counts as open only if the position exists, could start within 30 days and is being actively recruited for.
- Our own runs: Company Jobs Finder and the other tools named above, on 2026-10-08. A timer runs the same calls again every 7 to 30 days.

## Change log

We measure the numbers in this post again every 7 to 30 days and check that every source still loads. A new line appears here only when something in the post really changed.

- **2026-10-08.** Published. *Why:* First version, with the numbers we measured with our own tools on 2026-10-08.