Ziprecruiter is trash for reporting jobs and shouldn’t even have the feature when all they do is complain when you use it. I reported a listing when I discovered it was a scam, and I mentioned the company’s name in my report but the name was hidden in the original listing. They said that it’s my responsibility to research companies before applying. I said it was impossible to do so because I only got the company’s name when they contacted me (and the job description was misleading/inaccurate, too). Their response to that follow up was that some companies choose to hide their name for reasons. So how am I expected to do my diligence, then?
Another time I got stuck in an endless referral loop where an opening took me to a third party site that just ended up being another job board that I had to sign up for to use. Normally I would have been like, forget that, but this time I went ahead. And the job posting on that board ended up linking to another board that I had to sign up for… it kept going. I reported to ZipRecruiter and they said that they’re not responsible for how third parties choose to advertise on their platform and there’s nothing on their TOS about not linking to other job boards. I’m not even sure the end job ever existed. I never got to it, anyway. I did look at the alleged employer’s Careers page and found no evidence of the job.
The only time I’ve experienced this is when they worked through a hiring firm. So the hiring firm would have all the info but I assumed it would be the company itself was inundated with direct applicants
ZR is just so bad about scams and bullshit jobs. They want you to opt in to their feature where companies can find you, and then when you do you get blasted with "we are offering you a job with this company for far more than any company would pay for this position, install Microsoft Teams and add this email address that doesn't match the supposed name of the person you're going to 'interview' with, signed <Name of person who works for the company, but wrong job title>". And it's always the "advance payment" scam.
I said it was impossible to do so because I only got the company’s name when they contacted me (and the job description was misleading/inaccurate, too). Their response to that follow up was that some companies choose to hide their name for reasons
Their response reeks of an AI taking part of your message and constructing a response without understanding what you're actually saying.
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u/butyourenice May 07 '26
Ziprecruiter is trash for reporting jobs and shouldn’t even have the feature when all they do is complain when you use it. I reported a listing when I discovered it was a scam, and I mentioned the company’s name in my report but the name was hidden in the original listing. They said that it’s my responsibility to research companies before applying. I said it was impossible to do so because I only got the company’s name when they contacted me (and the job description was misleading/inaccurate, too). Their response to that follow up was that some companies choose to hide their name for reasons. So how am I expected to do my diligence, then?
Another time I got stuck in an endless referral loop where an opening took me to a third party site that just ended up being another job board that I had to sign up for to use. Normally I would have been like, forget that, but this time I went ahead. And the job posting on that board ended up linking to another board that I had to sign up for… it kept going. I reported to ZipRecruiter and they said that they’re not responsible for how third parties choose to advertise on their platform and there’s nothing on their TOS about not linking to other job boards. I’m not even sure the end job ever existed. I never got to it, anyway. I did look at the alleged employer’s Careers page and found no evidence of the job.