Prodigal application questions — all 30, word for word
Prodigal hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 30 questions, 30 of them required. None of them is a required, fixed-choice question about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
11 roles were open when this was last checked, mostly in engineering and consulting. The questions below are the form's own wording, not a paraphrase.
What Prodigal has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Prodigal titles them, in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Mountain View, California:
- AI Deployment Lead
- Account Executive
- Agent Engineer
- Applied AI Engineer
- Consulting Intern
- DevSecOps Engineer
- Lead Engineer - Machine Learning
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Strategy and Operations Analyst
- Strategy and Operations Lead
28 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 212 employers measured ask (median: 13), the least standard being “Are you willing to relocate to Mountain View, California, or stay within a 2-hour drive so you can join the team once a week for brainstorming sessions?”.
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Annual Salary (USD) | textarea | Yes |
| Expected Annual Salary (USD) | textarea | Yes |
| Are you willing to relocate to Mountain View, California, or stay within a 2-hour drive so you can join the team once a week for brainstorming sessions? | text | Yes |
| Website | text | No |
| Current Salary (LPA) Less than 3 LPA, 3 - 6 LPA, 6 - 9 LPA, 9 - 12 LPA, 12 - 15 LPA, 15 - 18 LPA (+31 more) |
select | Yes |
| Expected Salary (LPA) Less than 3 LPA, 3 - 6 LPA, 6 - 9 LPA, 9 - 12 LPA, 12 - 15 LPA, 15 - 18 LPA (+31 more) |
select | Yes |
| Total Year of Work Experience (Excluding Internship) | text | Yes |
| Are you comfortable working from office 5days a week(Location - Powai, Mumbai) ? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Total years of experience Fresher, Less than a year, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years (+1 more) |
select | Yes |
| Are you excited for 5 days work from office from Powai, Mumbai? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| How many years of work experience do you have? Fresher, Less than a year, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years (+1 more) |
select | Yes |
| Undergraduate Institution Name Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, BITS - Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Christ University, Bangalore, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi, Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai (+43 more) |
select | Yes |
| This role requires you to have high agency/ownership, are you someone who thrives under high agency/ownership? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Are you comfortable working from office 5 days a week? (Location - Koramangala, Bengaluru) Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Notice Period Immediate, 15 Days, 30 Days, 60 Days, 90 Days |
select | Yes |
| Current Salary Less than 3 LPA, 3 - 6 LPA, 6 - 9 LPA, 9 - 12 LPA, 12 - 15 LPA, 15 - 18 LPA (+31 more) |
select | Yes |
| Expected Salary Less than 3 LPA, 3 - 6 LPA, 6 - 9 LPA, 9 - 12 LPA, 12 - 15 LPA, 15 - 18 LPA (+31 more) |
select | Yes |
| Undergrad Institution Name Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, BITS - Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Christ University, Bangalore, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi, Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai (+43 more) |
select | Yes |
| Year of graduation 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 (+15 more) |
select | Yes |
| Are you comfortable working from office 5 days a week? (Location - Powai, Mumbai) Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Current Salary (Annual) Less than 3 LPA, 3 - 6 LPA, 6 - 9 LPA, 9 - 12 LPA, 12 - 15 LPA, 15 - 18 LPA (+31 more) |
select | Yes |
| Expected Salary (Annual) Less than 3 LPA, 3 - 6 LPA, 6 - 9 LPA, 9 - 12 LPA, 12 - 15 LPA, 15 - 18 LPA (+31 more) |
select | Yes |
| Are you comfortable working from office 5days a week? (Location - Koramangala, Bengaluru) | text | Yes |
| Your proficiency in SQL Beginner, Intermediate, Advance, Expert |
select | Yes |
| Your proficiency in Python Beginner, Intermediate, Advance, Expert |
select | Yes |
| Are you excited working from office 5 days a week? (Koramangala, Bengaluru) | text | Yes |
| Current Salary (in LPA) Less than 3 LPA, 3 - 6 LPA, 6 - 9 LPA, 9 - 12 LPA, 12 - 15 LPA, 15 - 18 LPA (+13 more) |
select | Yes |
| Expected Salary (in LPA) Less than 3 LPA, 3 - 6 LPA, 6 - 9 LPA, 9 - 12 LPA, 12 - 15 LPA, 15 - 18 LPA (+21 more) |
select | Yes |
| Applying for which location? Mumbai, Bengaluru |
select | Yes |
| Are you comfortable working from Office 5days a week? | text | Yes |
| Notice Period (number of days) Immediate, 15 Days, 30 Days, 60 Days, 90 Days |
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 |
|---|---|
| Salary expectations | 10 |
| Remote or on-site | 6 |
| Education | 3 |
| Years of experience | 3 |
| Language proficiency | 2 |
| Notice period | 2 |
| Other | 2 |
| Relocation | 1 |
| Role-specific screening | 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:
Razorpay Software Private · Recursion · Robinhood · Roofstock · Runwise · Samsara
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Prodigal's asks for 30 of them, and Greenhouse does not save a partial application by default.