I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Forward (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2019
Interview
The interview process is very long, with multiple rounds. It started with a 30-minute phone screen, then a 1-hour onsite interview with the hiring manager, then another day onsite with 3 additional employees, then a full day onsite with 3 additional interviews, lunch, and an assignment presentation, finally there was a 30-minute meeting with the CEO. The interviews included questions about my background and experience as well as case style questions. Overall the process was very long and slow, very repetitive, and requires a lot of time from the candidate. The full process was never fully explained and it is consistently unclear what comes next or the time required for each step in the process.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
How would you test a new calculator that you are bringing to the market? What would you test for if you learned that your first production run had failures?
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.