I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Actively AI (New York, NY) in Dec 2024
Interview
Intro talk with Founder, take home assessment (they suggest 4 hours, maybe a little longer), talk with Technical group head.
Sounds like their bottleneck is onboarding new clients. Each client has custom control flow/logic and so they want to figure out their internal processes to grow faster.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tells us about your experience, basic system design.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Actively AI in Feb 2026
Interview
The recruitment team ghosts after onsite :) - Don't think they are actively hiring for this role tbh. Half of the interviewers in my onsite were spaced out and didn't come prepared with really anything and spent half of the time figuring out what to ask me
The interviewer should consider making his bed before he conducts a professional interview. The questions were very scripted and I learned nothing about the role in the first round. I didn't even learn about who I was talking to. Very unprofessional and sounded like a scam company looking to hire a bunch of ego driven people. I learned that onsite presence was required.
Forward Deployed Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Actively AI with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 45.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Forward Deployed Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Actively AI overall takes an average of 15 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Actively AI as a Forward Deployed Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include: