SingleStore application questions — all 18, word for word
SingleStore hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 18 questions, 11 of them required. None of them is a required, fixed-choice question about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
42 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 SingleStore has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as SingleStore titles them, in United States, India, Portugal, International:
- Director, Platform Engineering
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- Engineering Talent Community
- Enterprise Account Executive
- Executive Assistant
- Forward Deployment Engineer
- Forward Deployment Engineer, New York, Tri State Area
- HR Generalist | India & APAC
- Lead Value Engineer
- Partner Operations Manager
- Principal Product Manager Lead
- Revenue Operations Manager
10 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 212 employers measured ask (median: 13), the least standard being “Have you personally owned configuration changes in Salesforce such as Flow, approval processes, assignment rules, custom objects, record types, and page layouts? Expand.”.
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 | No |
| Resume/CV | file | No |
| Cover Letter | file | No |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | No |
| Website | text | No |
| Which departments are you interested in? Business Development, Design, Engineering, G&A, Internship, Marketing (+3 more) |
multiselect | Yes |
| How many years of experience do you have? 0-2 years, 2-4 years, 4-6 years, >6 years |
select | Yes |
| How did you hear about MemSQL? | text | Yes |
| Which roles are you interested in? Software Engineers, Distributed Systems Engineers, Database Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers (SRE), Cloud / Private Cloud Engineers, Performance Engineers (+3 more) |
multiselect | Yes |
| How would you describe your gender identity? (mark all that apply) | text | No |
| How would you describe your racial/ethnic background? (mark all that apply) | text | No |
| How would you describe your sexual orientation? (mark all that apply) | text | No |
| Do you identify as transgender? | text | No |
| Do you have a disability or chronic condition (physical, visual, auditory, cognitive, mental, emotional, or other) that substantially limits one or more of your major life activities, including mobility, communication (seeing, hearing, speaking), and learning? | text | No |
| Are you a veteran or active member of the United States Armed Forces? | text | No |
| Are you legally authorized to work in the United States? | text | Yes |
| Do you currently, or will you in the future, require sponsorship for employment authorization? | text | Yes |
| Are you currently a Certified Salesforce Administrator? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| How many years of hands-on Salesforce administration experience do you have? 0–1, 2–3, 3–5, 5+ |
select | Yes |
| Have you personally owned configuration changes in Salesforce such as Flow, approval processes, assignment rules, custom objects, record types, and page layouts? Expand. | textarea | Yes |
| Have you managed and optimized a full revenue tech stack (CRM + marketing automation + sales engagement + enrichment + analytics)? | text | Yes |
| Which of the following tools have you administered or integrated directly? HubSpot, Outreach, 6Sense, ZoomInfo, DocuSign, BI tools (+1 more) |
multiselect | 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 |
|---|---|
| Voluntary diversity questions (EEOC) | 6 |
| Years of experience | 5 |
| Other | 3 |
| Education | 1 |
| How you heard of them | 1 |
| Visa sponsorship | 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:
Persefoni Ai · Pinwheel · Planetscale · Podium · Pomelo Care · Postman
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — SingleStore's asks for 11 of them, and Greenhouse does not save a partial application by default.