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“This tripped me up more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Cohere, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The greedy part was fine, argmax at each step until you hit EOS, straightforward.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Cohere, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is where I felt the most pressure.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Cohere, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I froze.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Cohere, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is bread and butter Spark stuff but I still fumbled the ordering a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Cohere, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This tripped me up more than it should have.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Cohere, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This only showed up after clearing greedy and top-k, so by the time I got here my brain was already pretty fried.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Cohere, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The nested messages array is the interesting bit here.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Cohere, Take-home Assignment round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This question is deceptively wide.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Cohere, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This tripped me up a bit because it sounds like a cleanup question but it's really asking you to justify a design decision under pressure.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Cohere, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.