Wonderschool application questions — all 32, word for word
Wonderschool hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 32 questions, 29 of them required. 2 of them are required, fixed-choice questions about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
45 roles were open when this was last checked, mostly in people and engineering. The questions below are the form's own wording, not a paraphrase.
What Wonderschool has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Wonderschool titles them, in San Francisco, Remote, North Carolina, USA, West Virginia, United States:
- AI Product Manager
- AI Product Support Lead
- Business Operations Associate
- Child Care Licensing & Provider Growth Specialist — North Carolina
- Contract Launcher
- Data Lead
- Early Career Software Engineer – Applied AI
- Employer Engagement Manager, Tri Share, West Virginia
- Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI
- Full Stack Engineer
- Full Stack Software Engineer, Applied AI
- Government Account Executive
31 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 spend a significant portion of your time (up to 50%) working directly with customers through support tickets and calls to inform the AI systems you build, and can you share specific examples where you’ve worked outside traditional engineering responsibilities or why this type of work appeals to you?”.
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 Wonderschool 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 currently authorized to work in the United States? required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
| Do you now, or will you in the future, require sponsorship to work in the United States? required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Are you currently authorized to work in the United States? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you now, or will you in the future, require sponsorship to work in the United States? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| First Name | text | Yes |
| Last Name | text | Yes |
| Preferred First Name | text | No |
| text | Yes | |
| Phone | text | No |
| Resume/CV | file | No |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | Yes |
| Are you comfortable coming to the office 3-5 days a week? | text | Yes |
| Describe your pertinent experience in a couple of sentences | text | Yes |
| Describe a system you've built | text | Yes |
| What did you study in undergrad? | text | Yes |
| What's your experience starting a company or being on a founding team? | text | Yes |
| What's your experience talking to and working with customers? | text | Yes |
| Share links to things you've built before. | text | Yes |
| What office are you interested in San Francisco? Remote - Ohio? Both? | text | No |
| Cover Letter | file | No |
| Website | text | No |
| Describe a system you've build before that's autonomous. | text | Yes |
| What is your experience with AI tools? | text | Yes |
| What product or engineering experience do you? | text | No |
| Have you ever started a company or been one of the first 5 employees at a company that has grown? | text | Yes |
| What customer support experience do you have? | text | Yes |
| How do you think about work life balance? | text | Yes |
| What city do you live in? | text | Yes |
| If you worked at a management consulting or private equity company - please list the names. | text | Yes |
| This role requires 5-6 days a week in the office in San Francisco - is that something you can commit to? | text | Yes |
| Please describe any experience you have supporting businesses in increasing revenue. Bullet points are ok. | textarea | Yes |
| What is your current position? | text | Yes |
| What is your current company? | text | Yes |
| Please confirm you are willing to travel up to 75% of the time Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Github or Website | text | Yes |
| Are you comfortable coming in 5 days a week to the office? | text | Yes |
| Are you willing to spend a significant portion of your time (up to 50%) working directly with customers through support tickets and calls to inform the AI systems you build, and can you share specific examples where you’ve worked outside traditional engineering responsibilities or why this type of work appeals to you? | textarea | Yes |
| What experience do you have using tools like Claude Code, OpenClaw, or similar AI-assisted development environments? | text | Yes |
| Where did you attend undergad? | text | Yes |
| What did you get your undergrad degree in? | text | Yes |
| What startup or founder experience do you have? | text | Yes |
| Describe a system you've built, either online or offline. Or even a video game. | 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 |
|---|---|
| Years of experience | 13 |
| Portfolio and links | 5 |
| Remote or on-site | 5 |
| Education | 3 |
| Other | 3 |
| Relocation | 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:
Enova International · Eve · Fastly · Figma · Fin · Fireblocks
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Wonderschool's asks for 29 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.