I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cohere Health (Chicago, IL) in Jun 2025
Interview
applied online, got contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn, passed hiring manager interview and proceeded to technical coding interview with two machine learning engineers who have maximum 3 to 5 years experience, but are now interviewing an architect...That's the not the main problem. The biggest problem is that I was told by the hiring manager through the recruiter that the interview will not be code heavy, instead will be focused on transformers, however, they did a full live coding interview, on an archaic algorithm that has nothing to do with the job (AI agent development). Total waste of time in preparing attention mechanism, coding etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement KNN algorithm. A base class is implemented, you need to complete some of the methods.