Jobs at Overflow

What Overflow's application asks

Across the 2 application forms Otto has filled at Overflow: 8 distinct questions, 7 of them usually required. A single application works out at about 6 minutes once you have your details to hand. It runs on Ashby.

4 are Overflow’s own, not boxes every form has:

• which data stack have you spent the most time with?
• tell us about a time when stakeholders wanted data that didn't exist yet.
• what are your compensation expectations?
• at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship. will you now or in the future require sponsorship to…

Read off the forms themselves, last checked 2026-09-17, because Otto fills them in and has to read them first. Roles differ, so the estimate is per application rather than for the list above: each question counts for its cost times how often this employer actually requires it. A written answer is 2½ minutes, a dropdown 12 seconds, a yes/no 5 seconds, attaching a file 45 seconds. The list leaves out name-and-email boxes and anything Ashby puts on every employer’s form.