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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.

Based on 274 active listings from the marketing job market. Last updated September 11, 2026.

13% of marketing roles with an application form ask a written “why us” or essay-style question.

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The numbers

  • 9.0 screening questions per application, on average
  • 13% ask a written / essay-style question
  • 91% ask about visa or work sponsorship up front
  • 2455 questions captured across 274 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
What's your level of English?114
LinkedIn Profile (please add the URL)111
What pronouns do you identify yourself with? (He/him, she/her, they/ them, other)111
Have you previously been employed by this company?110
How did you find out about this job opportunity?109
Desired salary98
Are you legally eligible to work in the country of employment? 94
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”92
Are you living in Madrid or willing to move there?52
Will you now or in the future require visa sponsorship?40
How long have you been working in Digital Marketing?33
How long have you been working in SEO projects?33
Are you authorized to work in the country where the job is located?32
Where are you currently located?32
When can you start a new role?32
Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status in this country?32
Are you legally authorized to work in the country where this job is located?30
How did you initially hear about this job?30
If you chose Braze Employee, Conference / Event / Career Fair, or Other, please specify here:30
Will you be able to regularly commute and work in an office in job posting location?28
Applicant Arbitration Agreement Acknowledgement28
Are you able to work from our US office three days per week?27
What is your current or previous job title?26
Who is your current or previous employer?25
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? 23
Are you authorized to work in the location(s) you selected in your previous response?23
Select ‘Yes’ to join Braze’s Talent Community and receive newsletters to help you stay up to date on career-related news, events and opportunities at Braze. 23
Do you have experience working with Salesforce Marketing Cloud?20
Please select the country where you currently reside. 20
How long have you been working in CRM Marketing?20
Have you ever been employed by Stripe or a Stripe affiliate?19
Please select the country or countries you anticipate working in for the role in which you are applying.18
Do you have any deadlines or timeline considerations we should be aware of?17
When is the earliest you would want to start working with us?17
Why Anthropic?17
Are you open to relocation for this role? 17
Have you ever interviewed at Anthropic before?17
Do you require visa sponsorship? 17
(Optional) Personal Preferences17
If located in the US, in what city and state do you reside?17

Based on 274 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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