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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recruiter reached out to have first interview with a hiring manager. that went well so went straight to the on-site with 5 members. the team seemed overly serious and one member in particular was extremely unfriendly. did not pass the on-site. when asked recruiter for feedback, recruiter said they do not provide feedbacks
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general questions from hiring manager. technical cases from on-site
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.