What the Greenhouse application form asks you
8,613 postings from 147 employers put their application on Greenhouse in the last 30 days: Stripe, GitLab, Airbnb, Mozilla. After the employer's own site it is the form you meet most often. Field by field, from a copy of Stripe's form, 29 August 2026.
The fields, in the order they appear
| First Name | required |
| Last Name | required |
| required | |
| Phone | not required, and it is next to a menu of 244 dial codes |
| Country | required: the country name, never “Brazil +55” |
| Resume/CV | three ways to attach it, see below |
| Education: School | required, a searchable catalogue |
| Education: Degree | required, a short fixed list |
| The employer's own questions | as many as they want |
| Submit application | one button, at the end |
Ignore the “Autofill my application” button at the top: it leads to a sign-in page, and no Greenhouse account is needed to apply. One of our runs clicked it on a fully filled form and ended up reporting a missing email field from another website.
The résumé has three buttons, and one is a trap
It takes pdf, doc, docx, txt and rtf through Attach, Dropbox or Enter manually. “Enter manually” opens a plain text box, and whatever sits there becomes your résumé: we caught our own code typing a university name into it with the PDF already attached. Use Attach, then check the file name.
Where everybody gets stuck: school and degree
- School searches Greenhouse's catalogue, it is not a text field. On 29 August, “Centro Universitário FIEO” returned nothing after 6.5 seconds. Retyping does not help.
- The list is slow. Options appear about half a second after you stop typing. There is an “Other”, in English only: “Outra” and “Otro” return nothing.
- Degree is a fixed list of levels. “B.S. Computer Engineering” is refused: pick the level, put the course name elsewhere.
The questions the employer writes
Stripe's asked consent to have interviews recorded and transcribed, and which countries you can work in: thirty required checkboxes. “How did you hear about this job?” only registers when you click the option; Enter leaves it empty while it looks filled. Work authorization is a dropdown, the one field where a wrong answer is a lie. The certification at the end is a text field: you type your name.
After you press Submit: the eight-character code
If Greenhouse has seen your address before, the submit does not go through: a block titled “Security code” appears with eight one-character boxes (six on GitLab) and a mail arrives with the code. Over ten submissions on 21 August it went out the first time an address submitted and was then reused: one arrived four minutes before the submit that needed it. With those boxes empty, nothing has been sent.
Auto-applying handles all of that before a form goes out in your name: up to ten a day once you buy credits, one credit each. See Pricing, the FAQ, what remote jobs open to Latin America pay and four days of a real search. Paste a Greenhouse link: create an account.