Engagement Manager Interview Experience

I got pulled into Cognition through a headhunter, and the process was a little fuzzy because they were basically running me through something that could have landed in engagement manager or the more forward-deployed side. I never even had a recruiter screen. I went straight into two intro calls, then a take-home, then a live presentation of that take-home, and I stopped before the onsite. The most memorable part was that the very first round asked some unusual 'what are you great at' and 'are you in the top 5 to 10%' type questions instead of just the normal script. Overall, it felt more theoretical and discussion-heavy than practical, with a lot of emphasis on specific deployment stories and how you think about your own edge.

I got pulled into Cognition through a headhunter, and the process was a little fuzzy because they were basically running me through something that could have landed in engagement manager or the more forward-deployed side. I never even had a recruiter screen. I went straight into two intro calls, then a take-home, then a live presentation of that take-home, and I stopped before the onsite. The most memorable part was that the very first round asked some unusual 'what are you great at' and 'are you in the top 5 to 10%' type questions instead of just the normal script. Overall, it felt more theoretical and discussion-heavy than practical, with a lot of emphasis on specific deployment stories and how you think about your own edge.