Zombie roles
1650
10,766 clustered roles · 77 companies
Human hours wasted
2.1M hrs
$93.3M wage equivalent
Employer of the week
Databricks
38 GJI · 206 zombies
Hall of Shame
Browse zombie roles by function, or rank companies. Same title, multiple seats = one role.
| Role | Company | Category | Open | Seats | GJI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial Account Executive - Boston Boston, Massachusetts, USA | Datadog | Sales | 2,744d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Commercial Account Executive Denver, Colorado, USA | Datadog | Sales | 2,715d | 7 | 85 GJI |
| Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Data Systems San Francisco, California | Databricks | Engineering | 2,533d | 4 | 85 GJI |
| Senior Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals San Francisco, California | Databricks | Engineering | 2,094d | 3 | 85 GJI |
| Senior / Staff Fullstack Engineer Europe | Linear | Engineering | 2,003d | 2 | 85 GJI |
| Staff Data Scientist San Francisco, California | Databricks | Data / ML | 1,881d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Producer Shanghai, China | Wieden+Kennedy | Creative | 1,869d | 2 | 85 GJI |
| Senior Software Engineer - Backend San Francisco, California | Databricks | Engineering | 1,826d | 9 | 85 GJI |
| Senior Software Engineer New York | Assembly | Engineering | 1,815d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Senior / Staff Product Engineer Europe | Linear | Engineering | 1,733d | 2 | 85 GJI |
| Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA | Datadog | Engineering | 1,727d | 2 | 85 GJI |
| Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California | Databricks | Engineering | 1,696d | 4 | 85 GJI |
| Solutions Architect Toronto, Canada | Databricks | Engineering | 1,660d | 16 | 85 GJI |
| Solutions Architect - Digital Native Business United States | Databricks | Engineering | 1,618d | 2 | 85 GJI |
| Solutions Architect - Retail, Travel & Hospitality Atlanta, Georgia; Central - United States; Remote - North Carolina; West Coast - United States | Databricks | Engineering | 1,560d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Solutions Architect - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Gaming United States | Databricks | Engineering | 1,556d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Senior Software Engineer Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA | Datadog | Engineering | 1,540d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure and Tools San Francisco, California | Databricks | Engineering | 1,534d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Sr. Product Manager, Data Engineering San Francisco, California | Databricks | Engineering | 1,532d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Solutions Architect - Emerging Enterprise United States | Databricks | Engineering | 1,524d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Solutions Architect - Emerging Enterprise (Startups) United States | Databricks | Engineering | 1,524d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Client Service Intern Shanghai | Landor | Sales | 1,512d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Junior Consultant Madrid | Interbrand | Other | 1,510d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Senior Software Engineer - Backend Bordeaux, France; Paris, France | Datadog | Engineering | 1,477d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering Menlo Park, CA | Robinhood | Engineering | 1,413d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Solutions Architect - Manufacturing Chicago, Illinois | Databricks | Engineering | 1,400d | 2 | 85 GJI |
| Staff Software Engineer - Backend San Francisco, California | Databricks | Engineering | 1,394d | 11 | 85 GJI |
| Senior Influence Manager (m/w/d) Berlin, Germany; Düsseldorf, Germany | Ogilvy | Marketing | 1,377d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Software Engineer, Frontend New York, NY (HQ) | Ramp | Engineering | 1,322d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Content Creator Global- Remote | VaynerMedia | Creative | 1,310d | 2 | 85 GJI |
| Staff Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals San Francisco, California | Databricks | Engineering | 1,287d | 3 | 85 GJI |
| Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Data Systems San Francisco, California | Databricks | Engineering | 1,287d | 4 | 85 GJI |
| Paid Social Senior Associate Dallas, TX; New York, NY | PMG | Marketing | 1,273d | 2 | 85 GJI |
| Paid Social Lead Dallas, TX; New York, NY; Chicago, IL. | PMG | Marketing | 1,268d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Engineering Manager - Compute Infra Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California | Databricks | Engineering | 1,266d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Researcher, Safety Training San Francisco | OpenAI | Data / ML | 1,245d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Senior Software Engineer Dublin, Ireland | Intercom | Engineering | 1,239d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Creative Intern Amsterdam | Design Bridge and Partners | Creative | 1,237d | 1 | 85 GJI |
| Strategic Projects Lead, Generative AI San Francisco, CA; New York, NY | Scale AI | Strategy | 1,226d | 1 | 84 GJI |
| Commercial Account Executive (DACH) Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Dublin, Ireland | Datadog | Sales | 1,169d | 1 | 82 GJI |
How we calculate this
Last scrape (ATS ping): 2026-10-20 14:43:46 UTC. Age is the board's first-published date, not the first time our scraper saw the row.
- Age / Open
- Days since Greenhouse first_published, Lever createdAt, or Ashby publishedAt. Intern and new-grad titles that name a class year (Summer 2027) are aged from that recruiting cycle, not from a recycled ATS id. Reposts do not reset it — we do not currently detect scrub-and-repost cycles.
- Zombie
- A clustered role open 180+ days. Talent-pool and general-application titles are dropped before this count.
- Seats
- Same company + same normalized title = one role. Distinct ATS job ids are seats, not extra ghosts. The city next to the link is the location of that linked job, not a random office in the cluster.
- GJI
- min(100, age + repost + perm + churn). Age is 0/10/25/35 under 180 days, then 50 + 1 per extra 30 days, capped at 85. Repost and headcount-churn are 0 until we measure them. A 6-month zombie is not scored like an 8-year one.
- Hours wasted
- For each zombie: days open × 4.5 applications/day × 0.75 hours (3.375 hours/role/day). Only zombies. Then company totals are rounded.
- Wage equivalent
- Hours × $45/hour. That rate is an assumption, not a surveyed wage.