Lever

Applying through Lever, faster

Lever forms look short and are not. The custom questions sit below the fold, and the location field will not accept what you typed unless you pick from its list.

The location field is the usual culprit

Lever's location input is an autocomplete. Typing a city is not enough — the value only commits when a suggestion is selected, so a form that looks filled submits with an empty location. It is handled by typing the city, waiting for the list and picking the match, falling back to the city alone if the full string returns nothing.

Yes/No questions are buttons, not dropdowns

Sponsorship, notice period and eligibility questions are rendered as pill buttons that toggle. Clicking one that is already selected unsets it, which is indistinguishable from never answering. Each one is set once, deliberately, and re-checked afterwards.

Demographic questions

Lever renders voluntary self-identification as radio groups rather than dropdowns. They are answered from your stated self-identification and left blank where you have not answered.

CAPTCHA

Some Lever postings add an hCaptcha check on submit. Where that happens, the form is filled and handed to you to submit, for the same reason it is on Greenhouse: an automated submission against a CAPTCHA is a flagged submission.

Stop losing Lever applications to the location field

Fill the whole form, including the parts that only commit when you pick from a list.