I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Forward (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2017
Interview
I applied online and heard back about a month later to set up a phone interview- they told me that they hoped to move through the interview process fairly quickly. From there I was moved forward to an in-person, where I met their on-site team and behind the scenes office team in SF before meeting for the first in-person interview. Shortly after I was invited back to their SF office to meet with the Senior Ops Manager for a second in-person interview.
It was during this interview that the job was split into multiple positions and things started to feel a little shady. I was told that I would hear back at the end of the week, despite multiple follow up emails with folks I had been in contact with, I heard nothing. After traveling to SF twice and taking time off of work to interview, they ghosted me.
I was incredibly disappointed with the professionalism displayed by the Forward hiring team, as they completely abandoned me and from the looks of reviews here, other folks as well. There is no excuse for this, as it is a reflection on your company as a whole.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you organize a new app database that would allow members to select a follow up provider based on their previous appointments with Forward?
Very thorough and long process with multiple rounds + super day on-site. Very supportive and engaging teams that provide feedback & areas for growth. You will meet with many of the team
This company and especially its leadership have a very scammy-feel to them despite their funding so far. From my interviews, I've gathered that the perfect candidate to them would basically be someone who drinks the Kool-Aid of wanting to replace actual real-world doctors with AI and "engineers". This is what one of their employees told me point-blank in an interview. The founder who came up with the original idea actually has a personal vendetta against physicians that the marketing team tries to spin as a sob story. And in addition to all these other reviews here on Glassdoor suggesting that they're only conducting interviews right now as a marketing scheme -- not actually looking to hire, I HIGHLY recommend anyone who does receive an offer from them to read up reviews of Forward from the public/customers that can be found on Reddit and other forums. There are overwhelmingly negative reviews from people feeling scammed and not receiving the services they've paid for. Highly do not recommend joining this company even if you do somehow get an offer. All my interviewers sounded like they were in a cult and could not think critically for themselves. Like replacing doctors with AI -- seriously? You have to be delusional or just plain dumb to actually believe in that pathetic excuse of a mission. I'm looking forward to the Netflix documentary on this scandal-magnet of a company coming out in the next 5-10 years. Godspeed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Where else are you applying? Why Forward? One interviewer also spent the majority of the time on a soapbox, going on a 20-minute (I kid you not) monologue of the company mission.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Forward
Interview
I was scheduled for a screening call followed by a case study/culture fit interview back-to-back. The case study portion asked me to describe a company dashboard for the CEO and the culture fit portion was very focused on why I want to work at Forward specifically. The hardest thing was figuring out how to answer when I wasn't applying for any job in particular.