Workday's job API tells you there are 2,000 jobs, then says 0 on page two

Workday is where large enterprises actually post. NVIDIA has 2,000 open roles there, Salesforce 1,477, Adobe 832. It answers an anonymous POST with no key. It also has two behaviours that are not in any documentation you can read without an account, and both of them fail silently. One of them costs you 98% of the board without raising anything. The number that changes after page one Ask for the first twenty postings and the response carries a total : POST /wday/cxs/nvidia/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/jobs {"appliedFacets":{}, "limit":20, "offset":0, "searchText":""} 20 jobPostings, total: 2000 Ask for the next twenty and the count is gone: offset 20 -> 20 jobPostings, total: 0 offset 40 -> 20 jobPostings, total: 0 Not null, not absent. Zero. The postings keep coming; only the count collapses. Measured on four enterprise tenants: tenant total at offset 0 at offset 20 at offset 40 NVIDIA 2000 0 0 Salesforce 1477 0 0 Adobe 832 0 0 Sony 94 0 0 Same shape every time, so this is Workday and not one tenant's configuration. Why that costs you 98% of the board Here is the loop everyone writes, and it is not a bad loop: offset , out = 0 , [] while True : page = fetch ( offset ) posts = page [ " jobPostings " ] if not posts : break out += posts offset += len ( posts ) if offset >= page [ " total " ]: # looks obviously right break On page two page["total"] is 0 , and 20 >= 0 is true. The loop exits, reports no error, and hands back what it has. I ran both versions against NVIDIA: declared total on page one 2000 the obvious loop collected 40 2% keeping the first total instead 2000 100% Forty postings out of two thousand, and nothing anywhere says so. No exception, no warning, no partial-result flag. Just a job board that looks very quiet. The fix is one line moved: offset , out , total = 0 , [], None while True : page = fetch ( offset ) posts = page [ " jobPostings " ] if not posts : break out += posts offset += len ( posts ) if total is None : # the first answer is the only honest