Pinwheel application questions — all 13, word for word
Pinwheel hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 13 questions, 11 of them required. 4 of them are required, fixed-choice questions about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
13 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 Pinwheel has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Pinwheel titles them, in New York, NY, New York City, NY:
- Senior Account Executive (ICP: banks, fintechs, CUs)
- Sr. Backend Engineer, AI Projects
- Sr. Backend Engineer, Integrations
- Sr. Full-Stack Engineer, Product
- Sr. Account Executive (ICP: banks, fintechs, CUs)
- Backend Engineer, Integrations
- Sr. Fintech Account Executive
- Reverse Engineer
- Sr. Backend Engineer, Product
- Product Engineer, Backend
- Sr. Account Executive (sales to FIs, fintechs, CUs)
- Sr. Backend Engineer, Infrastructure team
11 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 213 employers measured ask (median: 18), the least standard being “By selecting YES, I consent to receive recruiting SMS messages from Pinwheel at the phone number provided on my job application.”.
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 Pinwheel does — so treat them as the answers most likely to matter, not as a verdict. Answer them honestly either way.
| Question | Answers accepted |
|---|---|
| Are you legally authorized to work in the U.S.? required, fixed choice | Yes, No, Prefer not to answer |
| Do you currently require employer sponsorship to work in the United States? required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
| Will you require employer sponsorship at any point in the future to work in the United States? required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
| Will you now, or in the future, require Visa sponsorship? (If 'Yes', feel free to add additional details below.) required, fixed choice | Yes, No, Prefer not to answer |
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Are you legally authorized to work in the U.S.? Yes, No, Prefer not to answer |
select | Yes |
| Do you currently require employer sponsorship to work in the United States? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Will you require employer sponsorship at any point in the future to work in the United States? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Will you now, or in the future, require Visa sponsorship? (If 'Yes', feel free to add additional details below.) Yes, No, Prefer not to answer |
select | Yes |
| First Name | text | Yes |
| Last Name | text | Yes |
| Preferred First Name | text | No |
| text | Yes | |
| Phone | text | Yes |
| Resume/CV | file | Yes |
| Cover Letter | file | No |
| Are you able to work from our NYC office 3 days a week? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | Yes |
| By selecting YES, I consent to receive recruiting SMS messages from Pinwheel at the phone number provided on my job application. Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| This is a hybrid role, working onsite 3 days/week. Are you able to work from Pinwheel's HQ in New York City? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| This is a hybrid role, working onsite 3 days/week. Are you able to work from our NYC office? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| How much of your recent experience has been hands-on coding backend software? 0%, 1-10%, 11-30%, 31-50%, 51-75%, 76-100% |
select | Yes |
| This is a hybrid role, working onsite 3 days/week. Are you able to work from our Union Square HQ Tuesday through Thursday? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Visa sponsorship details: | text | No |
| Have you ever been responsible for troubleshooting or debugging issues related to APIs in a live environment? 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 |
|---|---|
| Remote or on-site | 4 |
| Visa sponsorship | 4 |
| Other | 2 |
| Role-specific screening | 1 |
| Work authorisation | 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:
Astranis · Avant Arte · Axial · Axon · Bevi · Bill
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Pinwheel's asks for 11 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.