Ascend application questions — all 9, word for word
Ascend hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 9 questions, 2 of them required. None of them is a required, fixed-choice question about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
16 roles were open when this was last checked, mostly in engineering and sales. The questions below are the form's own wording, not a paraphrase.
What Ascend has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Ascend titles them, in San Francisco, Remote:
- Customer Success Manager
- Data Scientist, Product
- Forward Deployed Engineer
- Lead Product Manager
- Senior Software Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Brand Designer
- Solutions Engineer
- Capital Markets Manager
- Sales Development Representative
- Product Support Specialist
- Product Operations Lead
2 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 213 employers measured ask (median: 18), the least standard being “In 100 words, or fewer, tell us why you are interested in this position at Ascend, and how it aligns with your professional goals in the next 2-3 years?”.
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 | No |
| Resume/CV | file | Yes |
| Cover Letter | file | No |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | No |
| How would you describe your gender identity? | text | No |
| How would you describe your racial/ethnic background? | text | No |
| How would you describe your sexual orientation? | text | No |
| Do you identify as transgender? | text | No |
| Do you have a disability or chronic condition (physical, visual, auditory, cognitive, mental, emotional, or other) that substantially limits one or more of your major life activities, including mobility, communication (seeing, hearing, speaking), and learning? | text | No |
| Are you a veteran or active member of the United States Armed Forces? | text | No |
| Website | text | No |
| Are you excited about the idea of working onsite at our San Francisco office? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| In 100 words, or fewer, tell us why you are interested in this position at Ascend, and how it aligns with your professional goals in the next 2-3 years? | textarea | 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 |
|---|---|
| Voluntary diversity questions (EEOC) | 6 |
| Cover letter | 1 |
| Other | 1 |
| Remote or on-site | 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:
Oshi Health · Ownwell · Pacaso · Pagerduty · Pathai · Pave
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Ascend's asks for 2 of them, and Greenhouse does not save a partial application by default.