Applying through each ATS

Greenhouse powers a large share of startup and scale-up hiring. Its forms are consistent, which makes them fillable — and CAPTCHA-protected, which decides where the filling has to happen.

Lever forms look short and are not. The custom questions sit below the fold, and the location field will not accept what you typed unless you pick from its list.

Ashby is the newest of the major systems and the most particular. If you have ever filled an Ashby form and been told a field you completed is missing, this is why.

Workday runs much of enterprise hiring, and it is the one major system where the application genuinely cannot be automated end to end. Here is why, and what still helps.