Amca application questions — all 13, word for word
Amca hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 13 questions, 10 of them required. None of them is a required, fixed-choice question about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
68 roles were open when this was last checked, mostly in engineering and operations. The questions below are the form's own wording, not a paraphrase.
What Amca has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Amca titles them, in El Segundo, CA, El Segundo, Davenport, Iowa, USA, El Segudo, CA:
- Avionics Assembly and Test Technician
- Build Engineering Specialist
- Capabilities Director
- Corporate Counsel (Commercial and Intellectual Property)
- Designer
- EHS Engineer
- Electrical Design Engineer
- Electrical Engineering Internship (Summer 2027)
- Electrical Engineering Internship (Winter Spring 2027)
- Electrical Test Engineer
- Engineering Internship, Business Operations (Summer 2027)
- Engineering Project Manager
12 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 213 employers measured ask (median: 18), the least standard being “Tell us the story of something you've put into the world for others to use or experience. It can be a project, product, event, community, initiative, anything.”.
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| First Name | text | Yes |
| Last Name | text | Yes |
| Preferred First Name | text | No |
| text | Yes | |
| Phone | text | Yes |
| Resume/CV | file | Yes |
| Link your portfolio. | text | Yes |
| What's your favorite work of design (broadly understood) from the past 10 years and why? | textarea | Yes |
| What's an underexplored medium for impactful design today? | text | Yes |
| Write anything else here you think we should know about you. | textarea | No |
| GPA (undergraduate) | text | Yes |
| ITAR Status U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Residence ("Green Card" holder), Status as a "protected person" under 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3), Not Applicable |
select | Yes |
| Onsite Availability Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | No |
| Portfolio | text | No |
| Tell us the story of something you've put into the world for others to use or experience. It can be a project, product, event, community, initiative, anything. | textarea | Yes |
| What do you think you have the potential to be top 0.01% in the world at? It can be personal, professional, anything you can think of. | text | Yes |
| If you were referred, who referred you? | text | No |
| Cover Letter | file | No |
| Website | text | No |
| Internship Start Date | text | Yes |
| Internship End Date | text | Yes |
What it's really asking about
Grouped by what each question is for, so you can prepare the answers that repeat across employers.
| Topic | Questions |
|---|---|
| Other | 6 |
| Portfolio and links | 2 |
| Cover letter | 1 |
| Education | 1 |
| Remote or on-site | 1 |
| Role-specific screening | 1 |
| Start date | 1 |
What other employers ask
The same question rarely comes out the same way twice. These employers' forms are measured the same way, from their own job boards:
Ghx · Ginkgo Bioworks · Gitlab · Gocardless · Gofundme · Grafana
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Amca's asks for 10 of them, and Greenhouse does not save a partial application by default.