State of entry-level hiring: week 38, 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 5,801 postings we read this week, 2,904 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, 44 verified roles
• OpenAI, 33 verified roles
• Flexport, 19 verified roles
• Robinhood, 18 verified roles
• Ramp, 13 verified roles
• Brex, 11 verified roles
• Cloudflare, 10 verified roles

Where the roles are

• San Francisco, 112 verified roles
• New York, 109 verified roles
• remote roles, 63 verified roles
• Denver, 18 verified roles
• Chicago, 15 verified roles
• Seattle, 11 verified roles
• Atlanta, 9 verified roles

Pay transparency

13% 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