I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Forward (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
1) Recruiter Screen
2) Onsite #1
3) Onsite #2
4) Meet the CEO
After the recruiter screen, we moved to a onsite/google hangout. Each interviewer was incredibly late and did not really ask much. I was invited to the next stage of the onsite that included a tour/demo, 3 1:1's, and a presentation. I felt the team was very inexperienced and they were looking to me to gain strategies into sourcing. My panel consisted of an RC and recruiters with maybe 1 year of experience. According to their LinkedIn's none had prior sourcing experience. After all the 1:1's I did my presentation. I was slated to present to 4-5 people and only 2 people were on time. The final 3 showed up with about 5 minutes left in my presentation. I felt my time was wasted by putting the presentation together. The next step would be to meet w/ the CEO. I was very putoff by the 2nd onsite and withdrew from the process.
I do believe in the mission but the staffing team is incredibly inexperienced.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
You're opening a restaurant and have 30 days to do it. What's your business plan? (I get that this is a GCA question but the entire 30-45 minute interview consisted of this. I did not think this was relevant and I did not get to talk about sourcing strategies or sourcing strings)
Had a HR screen with one of their recruiters. Recruiter seemed extremely overwhelmed and told me that they would get back to me in a few days about next steps. I never heard from them after. I thought this was just a one time incident.
However, the company seems to have a track record of ghosting candidates especially since was reached out to by the company for the second time and I was ghosted once again by a different Recruiter from Forward. The least a candidate deserves is to know the status of their candidacy especially if they were sourced by someone from the company. Please be respectful of the candidate experience you are providing.
I applied for the sourcing role and not even 24 hours I got a rejection email. But not your typical one, they used the wrong template. It stated that she had a great conversation with me and liked my background when I don’t even know who she is.
If you are going to use templates, make sure you are using the right ones.
Also the qualifications are so bland and I know I’m over qualified for it so thank god I dodged that bullet. These reviews explain it all.
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