Mercury application questions — all 10, word for word
Mercury hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 10 questions, 9 of them required. 1 of them is a required, fixed-choice question about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
149 roles were open when this was last checked, mostly in engineering and product. The questions below are the form's own wording, not a paraphrase.
What Mercury has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Mercury titles them, in San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within United States, New York, NY or San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA:
- AML Investigator III
- Account Executive
- Business Continuity Management Lead
- Business Risk Officer
- Creative Director - Brand Narrative
- Customer Support Manager - Risk
- Customer Support Specialist
- Engineering Manager - Bank Accounts
- Executive Producer - Brand Creative
- Frontend Engineer - Design Systems
- Head of Market & Liquidity Risk
- Head of Media
10 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 213 employers measured ask (median: 18), the least standard being “Are you based in the NYC metro area, and able to regularly work out of our Flatiron office location?”.
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 Mercury 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 at any time in the future require visa sponsorship? required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Will you now or at any time in the future require visa sponsorship? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| First Name | text | Yes |
| Last Name | text | Yes |
| text | Yes | |
| Phone | text | Yes |
| Resume/CV | file | Yes |
| Cover Letter | file | No |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | No |
| Portfolio | text | No |
| Website | text | No |
| Upload anything | file | No |
| From where do you intend to work? | text | Yes |
| Portfolio/Work Samples | text | Yes |
| Are you based in the NYC metro area, and able to regularly work out of our Flatiron office location? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Portfolio & Password | text | Yes |
| Do you currently reside in the New York, NY or San Francisco, CA area? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Are you willing to work Monday - Friday from 11:00am PT to 8:00pm PT? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Are you currently located in one of our office locations or in the United States? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Why Mercury? | 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 |
|---|---|
| Other | 3 |
| Portfolio and links | 3 |
| Remote or on-site | 3 |
| 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:
Monzo · Mozilla · Myfitnesspal · N26 · Nansen Ai · Natera
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Mercury's asks for 9 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.