Product Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Forward with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 35.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Product Manager roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Forward overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Forward as a Product Manager according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Group panel interview: 19%
Presentation: 10%
Skills test: 5%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Forward in Sep 2019
Interview
The recruiter via AngelList had minimal interaction other than to schedule the first meeting with the Product team members. The Forward PM will invite you to their "storefront" to do a demo of their current product. If the first meeting goes well (likely based on your excitement for the product) then they will have you meet other Product team members. The first meeting is more of their advertising ploy to get their name out there as a company and probably market to the Tech audience as a viable product. Be prepared to ask more questions about how they can possibly survive beyond trying to apply AI technology (as any other company in the valley). The PM team has come from some failing/failed projects within Google X and Uber so they appreciate you bringing in "lessons learned" stories.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What product did you build that you are most proud of?
the whole process was 6 weeks long
spoke to two PMs and then there was a 3 hour onsite with a take-home assignment to develop a speaker system from Sonos.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Forward in Nov 2023
Interview
The first round was a call with a PM, and he asked general behavioral questions while describing his job, the role, and the scope of the work. It was quite a friendly conversation.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Forward (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2023
Interview
I would suggest to not waste your time and energy with this company. The process was unnecessarily long. I ended up giving 5 rounds of interviews - 3 of which were onsite. Each onsite had me talking to 4 different people. The process took over 3 months. It also involved solving case studies and participating in Jam sessions. All of this ended with me getting a note saying - "There was not anything lacking from your end but the team is still figuring out the exact requirements of the role". They then came back 2 weeks later to make an extremely low offer. It seems like the company does not want what it is looking for when it interviews a candidate so they are just looking to interview as many people as they can and find an unrealistic candidate.