I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Forward (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2018
Interview
I interviewed with Forward in October 2018. The first round was a 45 minute chat with the head of their onsite operations. We discussed Forward as a whole, the mission, and what the Operations Associate role might entail. The interview was more conversational, and I really felt like Forward was trying to get to know me better as a candidate. The second interview was 45 minutes, over video chat, with their head of operations, which involved more high level case style questions. We spanned a number of industries throughout the discussion, but the goal was definitely to understand how I thought through problems to generate actionable insights.
After the video chat, I was invited to the final round of interviews at Forward in San Francisco. I was asked to prepare a "jam" beforehand, which was a take home prompt where I was expected to create a presentation. The onsite interview involved a tour of the medical facilities, a few one-on-ones with various members of the central operations team, the presentation of my "jam," and a final interview with the CEO, Adrian. In all, I felt like the process was focused on getting to know me as a person and how my skillset might apply to the role.
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.