I tested 42 large employers to see which ones you can actually scrape. Only 7 worked.

Before you write a scraper for a company's careers page, ask a cheaper question: is the data even reachable?

I checked 42 of the most sought-after employers in one region. Seven were reachable. The other thirty-five were not, and no amount of clever parsing would have changed that.

Here is how the split works, and how to test any company in a single request.

Two kinds of applicant tracking system

Companies don't type jobs into job boards. They enter each role once into an applicant tracking system, and that system pushes copies outward.