C3 AI Ascend Internship Program: Summer 2027 application questions — all 11, word for word
C3 AI Ascend Internship Program: Summer 2027 hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 11 questions, 10 of them required. 1 of them is a required, fixed-choice question about your eligibility to work.
3 roles were open when this was last checked, mostly in product and engineering. The questions below are the form's own wording, not a paraphrase.
What C3 AI Ascend Internship Program: Summer 2027 has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as C3 AI Ascend Internship Program: Summer 2027 titles them, in Redwood City, CA:
- AI Product Manager - MBA Intern (Summer 2027)
- Data Science - Intern (Summer 2027)
- Software Engineer - Intern (Summer 2027)
11 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 213 employers measured ask (median: 18), the least standard being “By clicking the “I Accept” button, you confirm that you have read C3 AI’s Applicant & Candidate Privacy Notice [https://c3.ai/c3ai-inc-applicant-and-candidate-privacy-notice] and you provide the specific consents identified below. Except where C3 AI expressly asks for your consent, C3 AI processes your personal data for recruitment on the basis of its legitimate interests and to take steps at your request before any employment relationship, and you are not required to consent to that processing: C3 AI collects your personal data for the purposes of managing C3 AI's recruitment related activities as well as for organizational planning purposes globally. Consequently, C3 AI may use your personal data in relation to the evaluation and selection of applicants including for example setting up and conducting interviews and tests, evaluating and assessing the results thereto and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment processes including the final recruitment. Some evaluations are assisted by automated tools: C3 AI uses AI-based matching to compare your application against the requirements of the role and, for some roles, an AI-based “Voice AI” tool that records and analyzes a voice screening interview. A member of our team reviews the results and makes the final decision, and no decision is made based solely on automated processing. You may request more information about the logic involved, request a review by a person, and — for voice interviews — decline to be recorded and request a standard interview instead, in each case without any penalty to your application. C3 AI does not disclose your personal data to unauthorized third parties. However, as a global corporation consisting of multiple affiliated companies in various countries, C3 AI has international sites and C3 AI uses resources located throughout the world. C3 AI may from time to time also use third parties to act on C3 AI's behalf. You agree to the fact that to the extent necessary your personal data may be transferred and/or disclosed to any company within C3 AI group of companies as well as to third parties acting on C3 AI's behalf, including also transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided C3 AI with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and in the United States of America; in such cases, the transfer is based on, as applicable, the Standard Contractual Clauses (according to Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914, and, for transfers from the United Kingdom, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum), the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where applicable, or other GDPR-compliant mechanisms. You may withdraw any consent at any time, and exercise your rights of access, correction, deletion, objection, and (where applicable) your ARCO rights, by contacting C3 Legal at c3legal@c3.ai withdrawing consent will not affect processing carried out before the withdrawal. C3 AI will not retaliate against you for exercising these rights or for declining to consent. Full details of how C3 AI handles your information, how long it is kept, and your rights are set out in our Applicant & Candidate Privacy Notice [https://c3.ai/c3ai-inc-applicant-and-candidate-privacy-notice].”.
The eligibility questions
These are required, and answered from a fixed list rather than in your own words: work authorisation, visa sponsorship or security clearance. Employers often use questions like these to filter applications automatically, but Greenhouse's public data does not say whether C3 AI Ascend Internship Program: Summer 2027 does — so treat them as the answers most likely to matter, not as a verdict. Answer them honestly either way.
| Question | Answers accepted |
|---|---|
| Do you now or will you in the future require immigration sponsorship to work at C3 AI? required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Do you now or will you in the future require immigration sponsorship to work at C3 AI? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| First Name | text | Yes |
| Last Name | text | Yes |
| text | Yes | |
| Phone | text | Yes |
| Resume/CV | file | Yes |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | Yes |
| How did you hear about C3 AI? Billboard, C3 AI Event, C3 AI Website, Digital Advertisement, Friend, Heard about C3 AI in the press/media (+4 more) |
select | Yes |
| If you heard about us from a campus recruiting event, then please indicate which event you attended. Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue, Stanford, UC Berkeley (+4 more) |
select | No |
| Which level of degree are you currently pursuing? Undergraduate, Masters, PhD |
select | Yes |
| What is your expected graduation month and year? December 2026, May/June 2027, December 2027, May/June 2028, December 2028, January 2029 or later |
select | Yes |
| Are you being referred to this role as part of the Campus Referral Program? No, Yes |
select | Yes |
| What is the full name of your referrer? (If you selected no, please type: N/A) | text | Yes |
| Are you willing to work from our Headquarters in Redwood City, CA, full-time, 5 days a week? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| By clicking the “I Accept” button, you confirm that you have read C3 AI’s Applicant & Candidate Privacy Notice [https://c3.ai/c3ai-inc-applicant-and-candidate-privacy-notice] and you provide the specific consents identified below. Except where C3 AI expressly asks for your consent, C3 AI processes your personal data for recruitment on the basis of its legitimate interests and to take steps at your request before any employment relationship, and you are not required to consent to that processing: C3 AI collects your personal data for the purposes of managing C3 AI's recruitment related activities as well as for organizational planning purposes globally. Consequently, C3 AI may use your personal data in relation to the evaluation and selection of applicants including for example setting up and conducting interviews and tests, evaluating and assessing the results thereto and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment processes including the final recruitment. Some evaluations are assisted by automated tools: C3 AI uses AI-based matching to compare your application against the requirements of the role and, for some roles, an AI-based “Voice AI” tool that records and analyzes a voice screening interview. A member of our team reviews the results and makes the final decision, and no decision is made based solely on automated processing. You may request more information about the logic involved, request a review by a person, and — for voice interviews — decline to be recorded and request a standard interview instead, in each case without any penalty to your application. C3 AI does not disclose your personal data to unauthorized third parties. However, as a global corporation consisting of multiple affiliated companies in various countries, C3 AI has international sites and C3 AI uses resources located throughout the world. C3 AI may from time to time also use third parties to act on C3 AI's behalf. You agree to the fact that to the extent necessary your personal data may be transferred and/or disclosed to any company within C3 AI group of companies as well as to third parties acting on C3 AI's behalf, including also transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided C3 AI with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and in the United States of America; in such cases, the transfer is based on, as applicable, the Standard Contractual Clauses (according to Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914, and, for transfers from the United Kingdom, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum), the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where applicable, or other GDPR-compliant mechanisms. You may withdraw any consent at any time, and exercise your rights of access, correction, deletion, objection, and (where applicable) your ARCO rights, by contacting C3 Legal at c3legal@c3.ai withdrawing consent will not affect processing carried out before the withdrawal. C3 AI will not retaliate against you for exercising these rights or for declining to consent. Full details of how C3 AI handles your information, how long it is kept, and your rights are set out in our Applicant & Candidate Privacy Notice [https://c3.ai/c3ai-inc-applicant-and-candidate-privacy-notice]. I Accept |
multiselect | Yes |
| Do you consent to receiving follow up communication via text message (or SMS message) regarding your application to the phone number you provided? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Review the role description provided below and select the role which you believe best aligns to your career interest. Software Engineer, Platform, Forward Deployed Engineer |
select | 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 | 8 |
| Education | 1 |
| How you heard of them | 1 |
| Visa sponsorship | 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:
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Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — C3 AI Ascend Internship Program: Summer 2027's asks for 10 of them, and Greenhouse does not save a partial application by default. Settle the eligibility questions first — they are the ones with no room to elaborate, so knowing your answer before you start tells you whether the rest of the form is worth your time.