PlanetScale application questions — all 6, word for word
PlanetScale hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 6 questions, 5 of them required. None of them is a required, fixed-choice question about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
19 roles were open when this was last checked, mostly in engineering and design. The questions below are the form's own wording, not a paraphrase.
What PlanetScale has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as PlanetScale titles them, in San Francisco Bay Area or Remote, San Francisco, CA, Remote US, EMEA - Remote:
- AI Developer Experience Engineer
- Brand Designer
- Compliance Program Manager
- Customer Support Engineer
- Enterprise Support Engineer
- Field Marketing Manager
- Senior Product and Commercial Counsel
- Software Engineer - Internal Tools
- Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres
- Solutions Engineer
- Video Editor
- Sales Development Representative
3 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 213 employers measured ask (median: 18), the least standard being “Please tell us a little about your background and why you're interested in this role.”.
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | No |
| Website | text | No |
| Please tell us a little about your background and why you're interested in this role. | textarea | Yes |
| Are you located in the San Francisco Bay Area? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Where are you based? | text | Yes |
| Where are you located? | text | Yes |
| Website/portfolio link | text | 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 |
|---|---|
| Relocation | 2 |
| Cover letter | 1 |
| Other | 1 |
| Portfolio and links | 1 |
| Work authorisation | 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:
Sumo Logic · Syndio · Tanium · Techstars · Tenable · Torq
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — PlanetScale's asks for 5 of them, and Greenhouse does not save a partial application by default.