claude-resume-kit/job_scout/ROSTER_REVIEW_2026-08-18.md

Scout roster review — 2026-08-18

Analysis only. No changes made to COMPANIES. Every claim below was verified by probing the live endpoint; unverified candidates are listed separately as probe-worthy, not as recommendations.

Method: aggregated the scan-stats tables from the four most recent full runs (2026-07-14, 07-27, 08-07, 08-18), cross-referenced state/decisions.json (253 decisions), and live-probed candidate ATS endpoints.

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1. Three scrapers are silently broken

Same failure class as the dbt Labs 404 fixed earlier today, but worse: these return HTTP 200 and plausible-looking rows, so the report shows "0 matches" and nothing looks wrong. A company that scrapes garbage is indistinguishable from a company with no openings.

Company	What it actually returns	Verified
Roche	Shanghai, Kyiv, Petaling Jaya, Bogota, Berlin, Mannheim, Penzberg. Zero Swiss roles despite Basel HQ — the locationsearch=Switzerland URL param is being ignored and an unfiltered default page is scraped.	live scrape, 10/10 rows non-CH
Meta	1 row: "Research Scientist Intern, AI/ML, Core Ads Growth (PhD)". Meta Zurich is a real engineering office. The offices[0]=Zurich filter or the lazy-load scroll is failing.	live scrape, 4 jobs across 4 runs
Apple	21 rows, all internships, "Where we're hiring", and "US - Specialist: Seasonal, Part-time". Zero actual engineering reqs.	live scrape, all 21 rows

This invalidates a conclusion in the yield data. Apple shows 21 decisions, all skip, 0 signal — that reads as "Apple is a bad fit" but it is really "the scraper only ever saw the internships page." Don't drop Apple on that evidence; fix the scrape first, then judge.

2. Seven boards have no title filter at all

_title_filter is absent on BKW, SBB, BFH, PostFinance, Swissgrid, Novartis, Palantir. This is why reports drown in Mitarbeiter/in Hausdienst, Financial Accountant, Studiengangsleiter Master Physiotherapie, SAP Consultant Treasury.

Company	Eligible → match ≥2 (4 runs)	Reading
BKW	61 / 75 scraped	81% of the entire board "matches"
SBB	27 / 27	100% — filter is doing nothing
BFH	29 / 48	60%
Novartis	105 eligible → 21 match	23 skips vs 3 shortlists

These need a title filter, not removal. BKW/SBB/BFH/PostFinance/Swissgrid are the Bern/Thun WLB-exception tier where below-bar comp is deliberately accepted — the lane is intentional, the noise is not. RUAG already carries a 29-term filter and behaves (13 eligible → 7 match); it is the model to copy.

3. The yield metric in the decisions log is confounded

Raw decision counts reward boards with no title filter — more rows surfaced means more skip rows recorded. Normalising to signal (shortlist+applied+maybe) per eligible role inverts the ranking: Snowflake (5 decisions → 1 applied, 1 shortlist, 1 maybe off 14 eligible) is a far better board than Novartis (31 decisions → 3 shortlists off 105 eligible). Worth keeping in mind before reading the decisions log as a quality signal.

4. Dead lanes

• MET Group + Louis Dreyfus: 1,464 roles scraped across 4 runs → 0 eligible, 0 matches. Ever. Both are title-filtered correctly; they simply have no CH/remote-CH engineering roles. LDC is Geneva/Rotterdam-anchored (French). The commodity-trading lane is configured and producing nothing.
• Norway (Telenor, Equinor, NATO JWC Stavanger) — three of 34 companies on a lane your own notes call mostly closed: comp below the 180k bar, Norwegian at A2, no clearance. Equinor just came back rejected at 79 days. Consolidation candidate, though NATO JWC has an open application pending.

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5. Verified adds — both confirmed live

Amazon / AWS — the single biggest gap

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search.json?normalized_country_code[]=CHE → clean public JSON, 32 CH roles. Among them, live right now:

• Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering — Zurich
• Sr. Delivery Consultant – AI/ML, Professional Services — Zurich
• Sr Specialist SA – GenAI, Specialists Team Germany/Switzerland — Zurich
• Senior Security Assurance Solutions Architect, AWS Security Assurance — Zurich

Why this matters more than any other candidate: AWS is the primary cloud in the evidence base (SW-1 migration, the Swisscom data products). claims.json:274 marks GCP evidence: unverified, output: forbidden — which is exactly what hard-gated the two Google GenAI FDE reqs this morning. An AWS-native FDE req in Zurich is the same lane without the cloud gap. Clears the comp bar. No adapter work needed beyond a thin JSON fetcher.

Axpo — the energy-trading lane, finally live

https://careers.axpo.com/jobs.json — Teamtailor on a custom domain. 400 roles, 98 tech-ish. Note the feed is JSON Feed format keyed items, not jobs, so the existing fetch_teamtailor needs a small tweak (and the demo-board fingerprint guard still applies).

Live right now: "Forward Deployed AI Engineer (f/m/d)", plus Senior Application Manager/Solution Architect, Quantitative Modeller, Junior/Financial Data Analyst, Leiter/in IT Division Hydroenergie.

Memory (user_role_targeting_energy_trading) names Axpo and Alpiq explicitly as targets — data/ platform engineering inside a trading shop, not ETRM or quant. Only MET was ever configured, and MET has produced nothing. Axpo is German-speaking (Baden/Zurich), which fits the DE/EN profile that rules out the Geneva traders.

6. Verified negative — do not add

• Coinbase proper. Greenhouse board coinbase is live (169 jobs) but has exactly 2 EMEA-remote roles, both non-engineering (Business Controller, Threat Assessment Manager). The Ventures board removed earlier was portfolio-only, so Coinbase was never really covered — but covering it properly gains nothing. Crypto lane stays Kraken + Bitcoin Suisse.
• Alpiq, Glencore, Swiss Re, Sunrise — no SmartRecruiters, Greenhouse, Ashby or Lever board found. Careers sites are bespoke/JS-rendered with no discoverable JSON API in a network trace. Not worth Playwright maintenance on spec.
• The remote-EU data-infra tier as a category (ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redis, Temporal, Airbyte, Starburst…). Skipping this deliberately: Grafana is already on the roster and memory flags it as below-bar geo-fenced comp. These firms band EU-remote salaries the same way, so the whole tier fails the 180k bar regardless of role fit. Elastic/Confluent/Grafana already cover the archetype.

7. Probe-worthy — not yet verified, do not add on my word

• CERN (careers.cern/jobs) — has dedicated "Data Science, AI & Analytics" and "Information Technologies" fields of work. English-working international organisation in CH, i.e. the same lane as the BIS Basel application. Needs a scrape-mechanics check. Best remaining unverified candidate.
• Swiss Post (career.post.ch) — Bern-headquartered, has an "Informatik und Digital Services" category, fits the Bern WLB tier alongside PostFinance (already scraped, and a Swiss Post company). My probe timed out on networkidle; needs a retry with a laxer wait.
• NATO NCIA (ncia.nato.int/careers.html) — the current nato adapter returns 4 reqs, all JWC Stavanger. NCIA is NATO's actual technology arm (Brussels/The Hague/Mons) and is a separate pipeline. Worth checking whether it is separately scrapable — it would be the one way to keep a NATO lane without the Norway constraints.
• SIX Group — fingerprinted as SuccessFactors (career_company=sixgroupse). Zurich financial- market infrastructure. Endpoint pattern is known; content unverified.

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Suggested order of work

1. Fix Roche / Meta / Apple — restores three companies that currently contribute nothing while appearing healthy. Highest value per unit effort, and it's a correctness bug, not a preference.
2. Add Amazon/AWS — trivial adapter, an on-profile Zurich FDE req live today.
3. Add Axpo — small fetch_teamtailor tweak for the items key; opens the energy lane.
4. Add title filters to BKW, SBB, BFH, PostFinance, Swissgrid, Novartis, Palantir.
5. Decide on MET/LDC and the Norway three — a judgment call, not a bug.
6. Probe CERN, Swiss Post, NATO NCIA, SIX.