Interview process
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.
- Recruiter screen
- Take-home project
- Technical interview
- Final round
Interview rounds
6 questions across 4 roundsRecruiter screen
3 questionsSpecific questions asked
What are you most proud of building and why?
Why do you want to work at Cohere?
Why do you want to move?
Take-home project
1 questionQuestion types asked
Specific questions asked
Get the edge cases right!
Technical interview
1 questionSpecific questions asked
Implement a webcrawler with BFS-like traversal.
You can google APIs and syntax but the coding is all manual.
Final round
1 questionOverview
It was a system design and a hiring manager round
Specific questions asked
Scheduling primitives, model sizes
How much cold start would take?
How to prioritize traffic and queue systems to manage load?
Interview tips
Prepare CS fundamentals, rate-limiting, queueing primitives, scheduling, learn about their models and products and play with their APIs
Company culture
The team seems smart but humble and mostly excited to be there! They seem to be working on some cool stuff.
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