Prodigal application questions — all 40, word for word
Prodigal hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 40 questions, 39 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 sales. 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
- AI Deployment Lead (Bengaluru)
- Account Executive
- Applied AI Engineer
- Business Development Representative - US Market
- Content Marketing Intern
- Customer Success Manager
- Data Engineer
- Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Agents
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Strategy and Operations Analyst
- Strategy and Operations Lead
37 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 213 employers measured ask (median: 18), the least standard being “Pick something ordinary that most people would never think to read about—a lift button, receipts, traffic signals, office chairs, your local train, anything. Write the opening 5–7 lines of a piece that would make us want to keep reading.”.
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 |
| Are you willing to relocate to Mountain View, California, or stay within a 1-hour drive so you can join the team 3-5 times a week for brainstorming sessions? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Preferred First Name | text | No |
| What is something most people around you seem to believe that you disagree with? | textarea | Yes |
| You have 30 seconds to make a stranger curious about something they probably don’t care about. Pick anything — a stapler, a traffic light, your neighborhood, a spreadsheet, whatever. What would you say? | textarea | Yes |
| Share one piece of content you came across recently that made you think, “I wish I had made this.” It can be a post, article, video, ad, podcast, meme, website, anything. What made it work? What would you borrow from it? | textarea | Yes |
| Pick something ordinary that most people would never think to read about—a lift button, receipts, traffic signals, office chairs, your local train, anything. Write the opening 5–7 lines of a piece that would make us want to keep reading. | textarea | Yes |
| Current Salary Details 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 Details Less than 3 LPA, 3 - 6 LPA, 6 - 9 LPA, 9 - 12 LPA, 12 - 15 LPA, 15 - 18 LPA (+31 more) |
select | Yes |
| How many years of experience do you have (Post CA. qualification)? 0, 1, 2, 3, 3+ |
multiselect | Yes |
| Total Work Experience Fresher, Less than a year, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years (+1 more) |
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 | 11 |
| Other | 9 |
| Remote or on-site | 6 |
| Years of experience | 4 |
| Education | 3 |
| Language proficiency | 2 |
| Notice period | 2 |
| Relocation | 2 |
| 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:
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Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Prodigal's asks for 39 of them, and Greenhouse does not save a partial application by default.