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Cohere

Software Engineer Interview Experience

Cohere·Senior / L5
Result
Waiting
Interview date
4 months ago
Timespan
5 weeks
Difficulty
Difficult

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 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.

Questions asked

Overview

It was a system design and a hiring manager round

Specific questions asked

How would you schedule jobs on a fleet of GPUs?

Scheduling primitives, model sizes

How much cold start would take?

How to prioritize traffic and queue systems to manage load?

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