Jobs at Salient

What Salient's application asks

Across the one application form Otto has filled at Salient: 9 distinct questions, 6 of them usually required. A single application works out at about 1 minute once you have your details to hand. It runs on Ashby.

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

• anything else we should know about your candidacy?
• github url
• legal name
• please confirm you are able to be in-person in san francisco, ca with a start time of 8:00 am

Read off the forms themselves, last checked 2026-09-12, 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.