I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Forward in Jul 2021
Interview
- Applied through the website
- Recruiter reached out, set up phone screen
- Had ~1 hour technical screen – this was the only programming question in the whole process
- Did a ~3 hour technical onsite. All questions were system design, no code
- Got a rejection call later that day with specific and useful feedback
Overall positive experience. Super useful practice for other system design interviews and some useful feedback after rejection.
Great! Focused system design + average leetcode questions. Behavioral interview was very nice and straightforward. Systems design interview include building a scribe tool for doctors to use. Was more a paired session with the interviewer.
It was pretty normal as far as interviews in tech go for entry level engineers. It felt like they were spending more time selling me on their product than on questioning me. Some standard Leetcode style question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something about the minimum travel distance on a keyboard grid.
Medium difficulty. Interviewed before the company abruptly shut down. Like the team, did not get many specifics about the business, particularly regarding the care pods. It was a few phone screens and then onsite.