Cohere Interview Questions, Process & Experiences (2026)

“The interview process did not involve much about customer empathy or dealing with tough customers, all it cared was backend swe practices. This was for an infrastructure role but the screen had nothing to do with that. I also was told to prepare for AI system design but I got a backend system design question, so my preparation time was wasted :( and each interview had two ppl not one primary...”

“The system design interview was data collection, SFT and RL stages. It went well for me. It was focused on LLM post training techniques. The ML coding was worst for me although I practiced the same question but using PyTorch and doing without PyTorch and without any documentation was challenging for me.”

“The process was very practical and not leetcodey at all, though knowing the fundamentals like different types of traversals, rate limiting primitives, scheduling policies did help. The interview process is a bit long, lots of wait between rounds but overall, it's smooth. ”