Who runs it
DonutApply is made and run by Steerius, LLC. The same company answers support and privacy questions at support@donutapply.com. The privacy policy and terms are its commitments to you.
Where the jobs come from
- Employers' own sites only. Every listing is read from a company's own careers site or the hiring system it runs on (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, iCIMS, SmartRecruiters, Oracle, SuccessFactors and others), or from Y Combinator's board, where its startups post their own jobs. Nothing comes from a job board anyone can post to.
- Some 70,000 company job boards are read, most of them every day.
- Removed when the job is gone. A posting comes down once the company takes it down, or once its site has not shown it for 10 days.
- US only. A posting placed outside the US is not listed.
- Ghost jobs flagged. A posting reposted again and again under the same title is flagged as a likely ghost job. See what a ghost job is.
How the public figures are worked out
The salary pages, hiring pages and company pages are rebuilt every day from the same listings.
- Pay is the top of the pay range each open US posting states, in yearly dollars (an hourly rate times 2,080), counted by posting and rounded to the nearest $1,000. Postings that state no pay, internships and part-time roles are left out. A posted range is what a company says it may pay, not what anyone was offered.
- Hiring counts are open US postings on companies' own job boards as read that day. A posting is new when it says it was posted in the last 30 days, or, when it says no day, when DonutApply first saw it in that time.
- The kind of work is read from the job title, so a title can count under more than one kind.
- Rising companies are scored from public evidence: SEC Form D filings, funding news, Y Combinator, Hacker News hiring threads, venture firms' portfolios and each company's own hiring pace. How the score works.
The rules it keeps
- It never submits an application, and never sends a message, for you.
- It never invents a fact about you: a field nothing in your record answers is left blank.
- You answer every CAPTCHA.
- Your tracker, profile, resumes and notes are private to you.
- Its AI runs on US-based providers with zero data retention: what you send is not kept, sold or used to train models.
Corrections
If a company page, a figure or a guide is wrong, email support@donutapply.com. A company that asks for its page to come down is taken off the site.
