Find your companies
Click Groups in the Job Tracker sidebar. The page is headed Inside the companies you're applying to, with one board per company and every role at that company included.
The Your companies tab lists every company you've saved or applied to a role at, joined or followed. Each row shows:
- the company and your furthest stage there, such as Applied, Interviewing or Offer (or Following if you follow it before applying);
- how many notes its board has and how many are new this week;
- how many members applied;
- the latest note.
Click Open board to read a company's board. Companies whose boards have no notes yet are folded into one line under the list; click Show all to see them. If you haven't saved or tracked a job yet, you'll see No companies yet and a Go to Job Tracker button.
To take a company off your list, click Leave (or Unfollow for a company you only follow), then confirm. Your notes stay on its board. A company comes back if you track another role there or follow it again.
The Job Tracker no longer has a separate Companies page; finding companies now happens on the Find companies to follow tab.
Follow a company before you apply
- On the Groups page, open the Find companies to follow tab. It suggests companies where other members in your job family applied.
- Type in Find a company to search.
- Click Follow. The button changes to Following, and the company joins your list.
How many companies you can follow depends on your plan: 3 on Free, 10 on Lite, 30 on Plus, 75 on Extra and unlimited on Premium. The tab shows how many you're following out of your limit. To follow another company when you've reached your limit, unfollow one first, or click See plans.
Read a company board
A company board is headed Applying to the company name. It shows how many members applied and how many notes are pinned. On Plus and above, it also shows how many members heard back and the typical time to a first reply.
Use the filters to show All notes, notes from people applying for a particular type of role, or notes tagged Before you apply. Click an active filter again to turn it off. Boards can also include tips from the We Are Distributed team and, for some companies, our research on the company's hiring process.
Some boards include notes from the company's hiring team. They're marked Hiring team and show who wrote them and where. Click Hiring team in the filters to see only those. On paid plans, All notes shows the hiring team notes for your job families and any that aren't tied to a role.
On Free, you'll see only a preview of each note, including hiring team notes. A paid membership unlocks every note in every group.
Post a tip
Once you've applied to a company, you can share what you learned on its board, on any plan, including Free. Applications marked Closed count too. Posting doesn't unlock reading: on Free you still see previews of other members' notes.
- Open the company board.
- Click Share what you learned and write your note.
- Choose which role you're posting as, and turn on Before you apply if your note is advice for people who haven't applied yet.
- Click Post tip. A message confirms Note pinned.
You can also share a tip straight from the Job Tracker when you move an application forward; see How to track job applications.
A meter under the box counts your words up to 20. Tips of 20 words or more can earn Career Pass points; see Career Pass: Points, Achievements & Customization.
If you haven't applied yet, the board shows Mark as applied, which takes you to the Job Tracker.
Role groups
Roles now share their company's board, so there's no separate list of role groups and no invite to join one when you mark a job as applied. If you have a link to an older role group, it still opens. Post an update there by typing in the box under Keep this group open and clicking Pin it.
Get emails about new notes
Tick or untick Email me new notes at the top of the Groups page to turn email notifications for your companies on or off. You can also use the Email me new notes switch at the bottom of a company board.
Leave a group
To leave a company, click Leave next to it on the Your companies tab (see above). In an older role group, click Leave group, then select Yes, leave to confirm. A message confirms You've left the group.
Switch between a group and your tracker
When a role group is linked to one of your applications, click Open in tracker in the group header to go back to it in the Job Tracker. To return to the full list of groups, click ← All groups.
For weekly accountability, you can also use Job Search Check-ins to track your progress alongside your group.
