State of entry-level hiring: week 36, 2026

Every week we read the full description of every job posting we harvest and keep only the ones that ask for no prior experience. This is what that filter caught this week.

The gap between the label and the requirement

Of the 6,810 postings we read this week, 3,674 asked for prior experience somewhere in the description despite being filed as junior or entry-level. That is the search-result noise a graduate is expected to sort through by hand.

Companies with genuinely entry-level openings

• Gopuff, 250 verified roles
• Anthropic, 40 verified roles
• OpenAI, 29 verified roles
• Flexport, 19 verified roles
• Ramp, 10 verified roles
• Cloudflare, 10 verified roles
• Vanta, 8 verified roles
• Brex, 8 verified roles

Where the roles are

• San Francisco, 95 verified roles
• New York, 87 verified roles
• remote roles, 71 verified roles
• Chicago, 12 verified roles
• Denver, 11 verified roles
• Seattle, 8 verified roles
• Atlanta, 8 verified roles

Pay transparency

12% of the verified roles in our current corpus publish a salary range in the posting itself. Where one exists we show it, because a graduate should not have to reach an interview to learn what a job pays.

The freshest verified roles right now