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Cohere Software Engineer Interview Questions

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CodingStart here. 12 questions · ~132 min
AI Agent Loop with Tool CallsMedium
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Parse Cohere-style tool calls, execute registered operations, and continue the agent loop until a final response.

api integrationAlgorithmsedge casesCohere
Web Crawler with BFSMedium
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Traverse reachable web pages in breadth-first order while avoiding duplicates and respecting a page limit.

apibfsAlgorithmsCohere
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System Design8 questions · ~88 min
GPU Job SchedulingHard

Design a GPU fleet scheduler that balances utilization, cold starts, priority, fairness, and inference latency.

gpu hardwaredistributed trainingCold StartCohere
Rate Limiter for LLM ChatHard
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Design a distributed rate limiter that protects an LLM chat bot while preserving fair, low-latency access.

system designlatencydistributed systemsCohere
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Behavioral & Leadership13 questions · ~143 min
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More topics5 questions · ~55 min
Debug Production Distributed IssueHard
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Diagnose a production issue in a distributed system, coordinate mitigation, and plan safe service recovery.

alertingExecutiondistributed systemsCohere
Ingestion Pipeline for External SourcesHard
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Design an idempotent pipeline that ingests disparate external sources, standardizes them, validates quality, and integrates them with a core platform.

Data Qualitydata integrationdata pipelineCohere
Optimize Relational QueriesMedium
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Tests performance tuning skills for large relational datasets.

database optimizationrelational databasesscalabilityCohere
Debug Silent Memory LeakHard
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Plan a safe, evidence-driven investigation of a silent memory leak across heavily loaded microservices.

memory leakalertingDebuggingCohere
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