A developer building an index across 2,127 companies found that guessing a job-board slug from a company name lands on a live board belonging to someone else about as often as it lands on the right one.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives25
- Confidence55
Three of the four public ATS endpoints wrap their list in a jobs key, so the parser passes its first test and then reports an empty array whether the vendor is wrong, the board is empty or the upstream threw a 502.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption32
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
A dev.to census of 1,551,977 job postings across 12 open ATS endpoints found BambooHR's isRemote flag empty in all 50,616 it saw. Having a field and having data in it are separate claims.
Reality
- Evidence63
- Adoption31
- Hype gap−9
- Incentives34
- Confidence60
An operator running automated applications across twelve ATS platforms says the first gate is a parser, not a recruiter, and a PDF that renders as an image parses to nothing at all.
Reality
- Evidence24
- Adoption16
- Hype gap+31
- Incentives84
- Confidence41
A developer normalizing seven applicant tracking systems hit the failure mode that never pages anyone: a well-formed success response containing nothing at all.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption22
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives32
- Confidence56