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What Marketing Employers Ask Applicants
The actual screening questions candidates are asked when they apply to marketing manager-level roles, captured from employer application forms and ranked by how often they appear.
15% of marketing roles with an application form ask a written “why us” or essay-style question.
The numbers
- 8.0 screening questions per application, on average
- 15% ask a written / essay-style question
- 86% ask about visa or work sponsorship up front
- 1005 questions captured across 125 roles
Most common application questions
Near-identical questions are grouped; the percentage is the share of roles (with a captured form) that ask it.
| Question (grouped by phrasing) | Jobs | % of these roles asking |
|---|---|---|
| What's your level of English? | 45 | |
| LinkedIn Profile (please add the URL) | 45 | |
| What pronouns do you identify yourself with? (He/him, she/her, they/ them, other) | 45 | |
| How did you find out about this job opportunity? | 45 | |
| Desired salary | 39 | |
| Are you legally eligible to work in the country of employment? | 35 | |
| Do you need, or will you need in the future, any immigration related support or sponsorship from Fever to begin or continue employment with Fever? If you hold a valid work/residence permit tied to another employer, specific job title, or sector/industry, then you should select “Yes” | 35 | |
| Who is your current or previous employer? | 24 | |
| Where are you currently located? | 23 | |
| What is your current or previous job title? | 23 | |
| Are you authorized to work in the country where the job is located? | 23 | |
| Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status in this country? | 23 | |
| When can you start a new role? | 23 | |
| Will you require Stripe to sponsor you for a work permit now or in the future for the location(s) you selected in in your previous response? | 21 | |
| Are you authorized to work in the location(s) you selected in your previous response? | 21 | |
| Please select the country where you currently reside. | 20 | |
| Applicant Arbitration Agreement Acknowledgement | 18 | |
| Please select the country or countries you anticipate working in for the role in which you are applying. | 16 | |
| Are you able to work from our US office three days per week? | 16 | |
| Have you ever been employed by Stripe or a Stripe affiliate? | 15 | |
| Are you living in Madrid or willing to move there? | 15 | |
| If located in the US, in what city and state do you reside? | 15 | |
| How long have you been working in Digital Marketing? | 13 | |
| If this role offers the option to work from a remote location, do you plan to work remotely? | 11 | |
| Do you opt-in to receive WhatsApp messages from Stripe Recruiting? | 11 | |
| How long have you been working in CRM Marketing? | 11 | |
| Do you have experience working with Salesforce Marketing Cloud? | 11 | |
| What is the most recent degree you obtained? | 10 | |
| What is the most recent school you attended? | 10 | |
| How long have you been working in SEO projects? | 9 | |
| What's your level of german? | 9 | |
| Will you now or in the future require Visa sponsorship? | 8 | |
| Are you living in Buenos Aires or willing to move there? | 7 | |
| What is your knowledge launching Paid Social campaings? | 7 | |
| Are you currently subject to any non-compete or non-solicitation agreement that would impact your ability to work at Airbnb or prevent you from accepting a job offer from Airbnb? | 6 | |
| Are you authorized to work in the country for which you applied? | 6 | |
| When is the earliest you would want to start working with us? | 6 | |
| Are you currently based in the EU or UK and eligible to work here? | 6 | |
| Are you living in Madrid or willing to move to Madrid? | 6 | |
| What is the address from which you plan on working? If you would need to relocate, please type "relocating". | 6 |
Based on 125 active listings.
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Methodology
This report is generated from active marketing manager-level job listings collected by Marketing Manager Jobs from public employer job feeds and APIs. Listings are filtered to include manager-level marketing roles such as growth marketing manager, product marketing manager, SEO manager, lifecycle marketing manager, demand generation manager, brand manager, marketing director, head of marketing, VP marketing, and CMO.
We exclude non-marketing or non-manager roles such as engineering, product management, sales, support, design, writing-only, analyst, and administrative roles.
Questions are captured directly from employer application forms on Greenhouse and Ashby (the ATS platforms that expose them). Standard contact fields (name, email, resume, cover letter) are excluded; only employer-specific screening questions are kept. Percentages are the share of roles with a captured form — not all active listings, since most ATS platforms do not publish their forms. Questions are grouped by normalized phrasing so wording differences collapse to one row.
The dataset updates as new jobs are ingested. Historical trend data uses daily snapshots, aggregated by calendar month.
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