Lithic application questions — all 20, word for word
Lithic hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 20 questions, 15 of them required. 1 of them is a required, fixed-choice question about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
15 roles were open when this was last checked, mostly in engineering and legal. The questions below are the form's own wording, not a paraphrase.
What Lithic has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Lithic titles them, in Remote, New York, New York, United States, New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, Ontario, Canada:
- Business Operations Associate, Program Management
- Product Delivery Specialist
- Senior AML Analyst
- Senior Risk Associate
- Senior Software Engineer, Processing
- Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform
- Software Engineer, Treasury
- Solutions Engineer
- Support Engineer
- Treasury Operations Associate
- Senior Software Engineer, Card Authorization
- Technical Support Lead
18 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 213 employers measured ask (median: 18), the least standard being “Travel Expectation: We ask our new hires to join us in person for their first week in our NYC office to receive equipment and complete their I-9 verification. Travel expenses will be covered by Lithic. Please select the option below that best applies to you.”.
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 Lithic does — so treat them as the answers most likely to matter, not as a verdict. Answer them honestly either way.
| Question | Answers accepted |
|---|---|
| Will you now or in the future require sponsorship to work in the US? (incl. but not limited to, H1-B, OPT, O-1, etc) required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Will you now or in the future require sponsorship to work in the US? (incl. but not limited to, H1-B, OPT, O-1, etc) Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| First Name | text | Yes |
| Last Name | text | Yes |
| Preferred First Name | text | No |
| text | Yes | |
| Phone | text | Yes |
| Resume/CV | file | Yes |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | Yes |
| Website | text | No |
| If so, please specify the type of sponsorship required. | text | No |
| The location requirement for this role is NYC. Employees in the NYC area are asked to work from our SoHo office three days a week. Are you currently located within a commutable distance or willing to relocate? Yes - I am within a commutable distance of SoHo, Yes - I am willing to relocate, No - I am not located in NYC, and I am not willing to relocate |
select | Yes |
| Have you worked with payment APIs, card issuance platforms, or similar financial technology integrations? If so, describe your involvement and the scope of the implementation. | textarea | Yes |
| What are your salary expectations? | text | Yes |
| Our interviews require you to be on video. Can you confirm that you can keep your camera on for the entire duration of the interview? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Can you please confirm your working location? City and State | text | Yes |
| Do you have direct experience with KYC/KYB tools? | textarea | Yes |
| Do you have a solid grasp of the regulatory framework governing financial products (Reg E, Reg Z, and USA PATRIOT Act, etc)? | textarea | Yes |
| While the location for this role is listed as Remote, employees in the NYC area are asked to work from our SoHo office three days a week. Are you currently located within a commutable distance to our NYC office in SoHo? Yes - I am within a commutable distance of SoHo, Yes - I am willing to relocate, No - I am not located in NYC, and I am not willing to relocate |
select | Yes |
| What do you think are our most complex technical challenges based on the very little you know about Lithic? | textarea | Yes |
| What did you get when you cracked the code? 35, 21, 98, 56, 104, 42 (+4 more) |
select | Yes |
| Cover Letter | file | No |
| Do you require sponsorship to work in the US? If so, please specify type of sponsorship required. | text | Yes |
| Can you please confirm your working location? | text | Yes |
| Do you have 3–5 years of experience in FinTech? Yes, No |
select | No |
| Travel Requirement: if you are to be employed at Lithic, you are required to travel to our NYC office to verify your identity and receive your equipment in person. Please select the option below that best applies to you. Yes - I can legally travel to the NYC office during my first week of employment, No - I am unable to travel to the NYC office, Other - I will provide more details in the box below |
select | Yes |
| If you have selected Other for the travel requirement question, please provide more details on your situation. | textarea | No |
| Travel Expectation: We ask our new hires to join us in person for their first week in our NYC office to receive equipment and complete their I-9 verification. Travel expenses will be covered by Lithic. Please select the option below that best applies to you. Yes - I can legally travel to the NYC office during my first week of employment, No - I am unable to travel to the NYC office, Other - I will provide more details in the box below |
select | Yes |
| If you have selected Other for the travel expectation question, please provide more details on your situation. | textarea | No |
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 |
| Years of experience | 4 |
| Role-specific screening | 3 |
| Visa sponsorship | 3 |
| Relocation | 2 |
| Remote or on-site | 1 |
| Salary expectations | 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:
Recursion · Robinhood · Roofstock · Runwise · Samsara · Scopely
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Lithic's asks for 15 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.