Software Engineer New Grad applicants have rated the interview process at Forward with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 17% positive. To compare, the company-average is 35.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer New Grad roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 6 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 Software Engineer New Grad according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 29%
Group panel interview: 21%
Drug test: 7%
Presentation: 7%
Skills test: 7%
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The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Forward (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2022
Interview
The people were really nice but a bit condescending towards candidates. Seems like the upper-leadership/cult-like work environment has convinced them that 'they are changing the world' but really their product is targeted towards rich people.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Intro Call - 30 mins. They ask "Why Forward a lot"
Technical Interview - Find shortest path on Keyboard for spelling word "DART"
Onsite - 2 sys design, 1 javascript/python round on fixing a survey form.
Sys design - Design google docs.
Sys design - Design Real-time Scriber UI Who controls what the doctor sees (The UX, not the software architecture)
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Forward in Oct 2024
Interview
Passed the coding assessment then got invited to a behavioral interview. It was a very strange and uncomfortable interview. Interviewer kept asking what impact meant to me, but it didn't seem like he was satisfied with my answer. He also asked what other companies I'm in the process for, and when I mentioned a few companies, he started attacking me. He seemed like a very arrogant individual overall, not sure why he is conducting the behavioral interviews. Also got asked random data structure and system design questions (non coding, just verbal) at the end, even though there was no indication that the interview would include this.
Honestly one of the first companies that I was glad rejected me at the end because I would never want to work there after this interaction.
1. HR Phone Interview (30 min) 2. Interview with dev. Describe a project you worked on. Technical question printing out paths from keys in array and finding shortest path if there are multiple.
Tons of interviews, made it to the final round and didn’t get an offer after a conversation with the head of R&D. You need to 1000% buy in to their culture or they won’t hire you, regardless of technical skill.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why are you applying to Forward?
Some generic leetcode questions.
API/system design