Ghost jobs
Ghost jobs, or fake postings
Some postings left long ago and nobody told them. We looked for where they linger the most.
9 October 2026Data: as of today5 min read
216
ghost postings are up under Technology & Software Employers in Hungary’s name. Each first appeared more than 45 days ago and is still live.
In this article:Most ghostsOldestRepostersWhy do they stay up?
The most haunted employers
A posting is a ghost if it has been up for more than 45 days and is still live on the original site. Right now there are 831 of them among 1,516 live postings, that is 55%. These employers have the most.
Top 5Live postings older than 45 days
per employer
- 1Technology & Software Employers in Hungary216oldest: 51 days old
- 2Deutsche Telekom TSI Hungary Kft.25oldest: 211 days old
- 3Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals Employers in Hungary20oldest: 51 days old
- 4Canonical16oldest: 54 days old
- 5TestIT10oldest: 78 days old
The longest-haunting
For each employer we took the oldest posting that is still live and ranked them. At the top of the list is Deutsche Telekom TSI Hungary Kft.: “DevOps Engineer” has been up for 7 months.
Top 5The oldest posting still live
days up
- 1Deutsche Telekom TSI Hungary Kft.211 days“DevOps Engineer”
- 2Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Hungary210 days“DevOps Engineer - Cloud Identity & Access Management Engineer”
- 3Bluebird207 days“DevOps Engineer állás”
- 4Raiffeisen Bank165 days“INTEGRÁCIÓS ÜZEMELTETŐ”
- 5Roland Berger162 days“Trainee”
Those who keep summoning them
Some employers post the same job title several times as separate postings. Innoview does it the most: “Java Developer” is up in 3 copies. This can be genuine mass hiring too; the numbers do not show which.
Top 5The same posting, several copies
separate postings
- 1Innoview3דJava Developer”
- 2Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Hungary2דCloud DevOps”
- 3Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Hungary2דDevOps Engineer”
- 4TransPerfect2דQA Automation Engineer”
- 5TSMG2דQuality control specialist for AI/ ML with Hungarian language”
Why does a posting stay up?
There are three reasons a posting stays up for months. From the outside we cannot see which one applies to a given employer, but there is hardly another.
- Impossible requirements
- They ask for so much at once that the right candidate practically does not exist: a two-metre-tall, blond, ripped, handsome prince, and no salary above a million forints on offer either. You can find someone like that, but it takes a very long time, and the posting stays up meanwhile.
- The look of growth
- Plenty of open positions tell the outside world that the company is growing and hiring. Sometimes they do not even want to hire anyone, they only want to create that impression.
- Plain negligence
- The position was filled or cancelled, but nobody took the posting down. There is no intent behind it, nobody is simply looking after it.
How we counted
- Only postings that are still active on the original site count. The senior level is left out, so the numbers describe the board’s default view.
- Company names are compared lower-cased and trimmed, so “Example Ltd.” and “example ltd.” count as one employer.
- LinkedIn is left out because it has no “still active” state, only a time window.
- The “Why does a posting stay up” section describes the three possible reasons. Which one applies to a given employer is not something the numbers show.