What’s your interview process like? First we’ll send you an email with a ~5 minute video in it that just explains the role (company/product/team/stack/client side interview process/term, etc.) to confirm fit.
If the role still sounds good we’ll set up a ~30 minute call where we’ll ask you how you’d build some feature or approach some problem that’s specific to the role.
The client side screens range anywhere from a single call for shorter term contracts to a 3 step interview process for longer term roles.
What kinds of questions do you ask for your tech screens? We talk to you about how you would do whatever it is you’d be doing for the client.
We will never ask you questions about algorithms and/or data structures and the types of clients we work with don’t ask these questions either.
How long do roles stay open for? Anywhere from 1-4 weeks depending on how quickly the client needs someone.
Usually we’re done screening candidates within a week after posting a role but not always.
We’ll leave a role open our site until we’ve started someone in that role.
Should I apply to multiple roles? Yes, please do.
We use typeform submissions to keep track of all the folks that are interested in a given role and we’re not good at cross referencing submissions across multiple roles.
Will I receive updates from you if I submit a typeform for a role? Yes, you should receive an email immediately after you submit the typeform and then an additional email from us when the role closes with some information on what happened with that role.
I felt like I was really qualified for a role I applied for but I didn’t hear from you. Why? Probably because we’re bad at reviewing typeforms submissions. Can’t emphasize this enough. We’re making a determination on who to talk to after looking at 100s of linkedin profiles for approximately 60 seconds each. We wish we had a better way.
Maybe though because you’re linkedin doesn’t look good/is missing info/is hard to read. More on what we look for here.
How do you decide who to interview? Typically were looking at your Linkedin, your overall years of experience, the stacks you’ve worked with, your english, startup experience, and experience with U.S. based companies.
We have more information on what we look for here.
What’s the best way to reach out about a role? Filling out the typeform is the best way to get in touch.
If we’ve spoken before, filling out the typeform and then also sending an email is best.
LinkedIn DMs are not a good way to reach out whether we’ve spoken before or not, they’re too easy for us to lose track of.
If we haven’t spoken before sending us an email is unfortunately not a good way to get in touch.
Can I get an email notification every time you post a new job? Yea we’re working on that, fill out this typeform to sign up for (relevant) job notifications
Will I get an email when the role closes? Yes, but we’re often slow to send these and it might take a couple months.
These will include stats on what happened like # of applicants, median asking rate, etc.
Will I get updates about the role status? We don’t currently have a way to do this, but we’re working on a way to opt in to notifications here.
If you think there are some other questions that it’d be helpful for us to answer here let us know and if we hear the same thing from a few folks we’ll update this page.
As always thanks for taking the time to look into Forward, we appreciate it 🙏🏻