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Greenhouse and Lever autofill

Both are short forms with no account to sign into, which means the entire application is typing. That's exactly what an autofill extension is for.

Greenhouse and Lever are the two applicant tracking systems you meet most often at startups and mid-size tech companies. They're a relief after Workday: one page, no account, submit and done. The catch is that "no account" also means nothing is remembered. Every application starts from an empty form, including the twenty fields that never change.

What a Greenhouse application asks for

Greenhouse job boards live on job-boards.greenhouse.io or the older boards.greenhouse.io, and are frequently embedded straight into the employer's careers page. The standard form is:

• First name, last name, email, phone
• Resume and cover letter, by upload or paste
• LinkedIn profile, website or portfolio
• Location, on some boards
• Whatever custom questions the employer added — work authorization, sponsorship, start date, salary, "how did you hear about us", and occasionally a short essay
• The voluntary US demographic section: gender, race, veteran status, disability status, as dropdowns

What a Lever application asks for

Lever forms live on jobs.lever.co and follow a similar shape:

• Full name, email, phone, current company
• Resume upload, which Lever tries to parse into the fields above
• LinkedIn, GitHub, portfolio, other website
• An "additional information" textarea
• Employer-specific questions as text boxes, dropdowns or multiple choice
• The voluntary demographic section

Filling them

Open the form, wait for the prompt, click fill. Text inputs, textareas, native dropdowns, checkboxes and radio buttons all get filled from your saved profile, and an undo button stays available afterwards.

The custom questions are the whole game

The name and email fields are the easy part; every autofill tool handles those. What eats your afternoon is the employer-specific block, and those questions repeat across companies even though each employer writes them slightly differently.

Save an answer once as a custom field on your profile and it gets matched wherever the question shows up, whether it's phrased as "Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?" or "Do you have the right to work in the US?". The ones worth adding:

• Work authorization and sponsorship — kept as separate fields, because they're separate questions
• Earliest start date or notice period
• Salary expectation
• Years of experience
• Referral source — the "how did you hear about us" answer
• Pronouns, if you answer that question and want it consistent
• LinkedIn, GitHub and portfolio URLs

A question with no matching value in your profile is left empty. Nothing is invented to fill a gap.

What stays manual

• Resume and cover letter uploads — file inputs are skipped entirely
• The "attach from Dropbox or Google Drive" buttons
• Anything role-specific: why this company, what you'd build, the take-home link
• Submitting. You always click that yourself, after reading the page

Two habits for a batch of applications

• Fill, then scan. The filled values are right there on one page, so a wrong dropdown takes two seconds to spot.
• Update the profile as you go. When a new question shows up twice, add it as a custom field. The third company won't cost you anything.

Questions

• The form is embedded on the company's site and no prompt appeared.

  That's the iframe case. The automatic prompt only appears for the main page, so click the extension icon in the toolbar and choose Autofill this page, which reaches embedded frames as well.

• Does it fill the employer's custom questions?

  Yes, when your profile has an answer. Add custom fields for the questions you keep seeing and they'll be matched like any other field. Ones you haven't answered are left blank rather than guessed at.

• Does it upload my resume?

  No. File uploads are excluded, so the resume and cover letter are still yours to attach.

• Do I need an account to apply?

  Not with Greenhouse or Lever — both are open forms. You do need a free account for the extension itself, because signing in is what protects the AI service behind it from abuse.

• What about the demographic questions?

  They're standard dropdowns, so they can be filled. If you'd rather answer them yourself every time, say so in your profile's instructions box and they'll be left alone.

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