Imply application questions — all 7, word for word
Imply hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 7 questions, 7 of them required. None of them is a required, fixed-choice question about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
8 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 Imply has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Imply titles them, in Burlingame, California, United States, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Seoul, South Korea:
- Director, Product Management (Remote)
- Enterprise Account Executive (Remote)
- Senior Software Engineer (Remote)
- Staff Software Engineer (Remote)
- Senior Customer Architect (Remote)
- Software Engineer (Full Stack, Backend Focus) (Remote)
- Software Engineer II (Remote)
7 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 213 employers measured ask (median: 18), the least standard being “Which programming language(s) do you have expert-level professional experience with?”.
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| First Name | text | Yes |
| Last Name | text | Yes |
| text | Yes | |
| Phone | text | Yes |
| Resume/CV | file | Yes |
| Cover Letter | file | No |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | Yes |
| Website | text | No |
| Have you managed a team before? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Please describe your experience selling within the observability or SIEM space. | textarea | Yes |
| What percentage of your quota attainment has been through net new logos? | text | Yes |
| Do you have professional experience building or maintaining distributed systems? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Which databases have you worked with professionally? PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis (+2 more) |
multiselect | Yes |
| Which programming language(s) do you have expert-level professional experience with? Java, Go, C++, None, Other |
multiselect | Yes |
| Do you have 2+ years of professional backend software development experience? Yes, No |
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 |
|---|---|
| Years of experience | 7 |
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:
Degreed · Dollar Shave Club · Doximity · Dropbox · Elastic · Enova International
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Imply's asks for 7 of them, and Greenhouse does not save a partial application by default.