Pave application questions — all 8, word for word
Pave hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 8 questions, 5 of them required. 1 of them is a required, fixed-choice question about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
30 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 Pave has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Pave titles them, in San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA & New York, NY, San Francisco, California, United States, Salt Lake City, UT:
- Account Manager
- Analytics Engineer
- Customer Success Engineer
- Data Scientist
- Engineering Manager, Compensation Planning
- Enterprise Account Executive
- Marketing Communications Lead
- Sales Development Representative
- Senior Accountant
- Senior Software Backend Engineer, Market Pricing
- Senior Software Engineer, Agent
- Senior Software Engineer, Compensation Planning
7 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 213 employers measured ask (median: 18), the least standard being “Pave believes in-person work is a key component in building a world-class culture and product. As such, we are seeking talent who can work in-office several times per week. Which office(s) are you applying for?”.
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 Pave 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 sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B visa status, etc.) to work legally for our Company in the United States? required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Do you now, or will you in the future, require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B visa status, etc.) to work legally for our Company in the United States? 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 | Yes |
| Most Recent Employer | text | Yes |
| Pave operates on a hybrid model with in-office days on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Does this schedule work for you? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Which office location are you applying to? San Francisco, CA, New York, NY |
multiselect | Yes |
| What interests you about joining Pave? | text | No |
| Preferred First Name | text | No |
| Website | text | No |
| Pave believes in-person work is a key component in building a world-class culture and product. As such, we are seeking talent who can work in-office several times per week. Which office(s) are you applying for? San Francisco, New York City |
multiselect | Yes |
| How did you hear about Pave? | text | 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 |
|---|---|
| Remote or on-site | 2 |
| Cover letter | 1 |
| How you heard of them | 1 |
| Other | 1 |
| Relocation | 1 |
| Visa sponsorship | 1 |
| Years of experience | 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:
Legion · Lithic · Litify · Ltse · Makersite · Mercury
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Pave's asks for 5 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.