Cohesity·Software Engineer

Cohesity Software Engineer interview experience

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Santa Clara, CAPosted May 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got reached out by an engineering director on LinkedIn, and after that I went through a multi-round process that had a mix of formats.

I’d initially asked to meet in person, and once that happened there were about five more rounds afterward. Most of the interviewers I met were fine—professional enough, and we got through the discussion smoothly—but the final round left a really bad taste.

The last interviewer came in alongside a shadow interviewer. I was given a coding-style prompt that felt like a reminders feature similar to what you’d see in Outlook. The task was to write clear, compiling code, and the conversation got tense when I reached for a hash library. Instead of a calm discussion, I was stopped mid-thought and

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