Free tool · Based on original research
Which ATS does your target company use?
Search any S&P 500 company and see which applicant tracking system screens its applications — plus the resume advice specific to that ATS's parser.
Why this matters before you hit "apply"
When you apply to a large US company, your resume is parsed by software before any human sees it. Which software matters: our study of all 503 S&P 500 careers pages found that Workday alone handles ~30% of S&P 500 hiring, and the "enterprise big three" (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle) cover 56% of detected companies. Each one parses resumes differently — a layout that sails through Greenhouse can get mangled by Workday.
The data behind this tool comes from our original research: Which ATS Does Each S&P 500 Company Use? (We Indexed All 503) — including per-sector breakdowns, what 9,260 live job postings actually ask for, and the full downloadable dataset.
Company deep-dives
For companies where we collected enough live postings, we built a full hiring breakdown — the exact ATS, role mix, in-demand skills, and experience requirements.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you know which ATS a company uses?
- We scraped all 503 S&P 500 careers pages, followed redirects, parsed embedded iframes and scripts, and matched URL hostnames plus HTML signatures against ~25 known ATS vendors. For ambiguous cases we probed the public board APIs of Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and Workable directly. Detection rate: 57% (288 of 503 companies).
- Why does it say "Not detected" for some companies?
- About 43% of S&P 500 careers sites are single-page apps that load their ATS via JavaScript, which our static crawl can't see. For those companies, use the safest formatting: single-column .docx with standard section headers — that parses correctly in every major ATS.
- Why does the ATS matter for my resume?
- Each ATS parses resumes differently. Workday and SAP SuccessFactors mangle tables and multi-column layouts; Oracle's PDF parsing is weak, so .docx is safer; iCIMS rewards exact keyword matches from the job description. Knowing the parser lets you fix the specific things it breaks on.
- Where does the data come from?
- Our original June 2026 study of all 503 S&P 500 companies and 9,260 live job postings. The full methodology and downloadable raw data are in the research post.