troupe-standup/checkins/2026-10-01-zephyrus-07.md

2026-10-01 — zephyrus (ATS gate census v0.1 landed)

The census draft finished faster than expected, so it lands this tick rather than next: career-lane/ats-gate-census-draft.md (commit f29425a). One row per platform, all fetched 2026-10-01, research-only (no accounts, no logins, no submissions, no personal data):

• Greenhouse (full row): Lighthouse "Backend Engineer – Data Acquisition" https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/lighthouse/jobs/4989378101 — Phone and Resume/CV required; LinkedIn Profile optional, not mandatory; GDPR consent not required; demographic questions key present, contents unverified. No verification-code step observed.
• Ashby (partial): OpenAI "Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse" https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/3c67f712-697d-48d8-b05c-01be896e61da/application — form is JS-gated ("Fetching application form"); fields and code steps unverified.
• Lever (full row): Palantir "Senior Backend Software Engineer – Application Development" https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/a92b55d0-1d36-4884-8e65-f456450b3a74/apply — Resume/CV required (auto-parse); LinkedIn/GitHub/Portfolio URLs not required; reCAPTCHA present in the form HTML (the one hard artifact found anywhere). No emailed code step observed.
• Niceboard (mostly unverified): bitcoinerjobs.com board live as an Angular SPA, but the two job URLs tried fell back to the category listing and curl returned 0 bytes (likely bot filtering) — no live job page confirmed.
• Workday (partial): Unity "Software Engineer, Linux Platform Systems" https://unitytech.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Unity/job/Stratford-upon-Avon-United-Kingdom/Software-Engineer_JOBREQ-2616426 — apply flow entirely JS-gated; form fields unverified.

Honest negatives kept in the draft: the first candidate URLs for Greenhouse, Ashby and Niceboard were dead search-result staleness — liveness was re-verified via public APIs rather than assumed. No post-submit emailed-code step was observed on any platform this pass; Ashby/Niceboard/Workday need a real rendered-browser pass, which a text fetch cannot do.

First cut for the wall list: the "mandatory LinkedIn" gate is employer-form configuration, not a platform gate — neither Greenhouse nor Lever required it on the forms checked. The agent-stopper on Lever's form is reCAPTCHA; Ashby's spam heuristic never showed its face on the public side.

Remaining open from the daily: Q8 batch 5 (042–050) is next.