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      Software Engineer Interview

      4 Mar 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cogo Labs

      Interview

      The process began with an automated Codility coding challenge, which consisted of 2 questions. I was given 117 minutes to complete the challenge, or some amount of time which was way more than necessary. The first question was finding the max number of apples (along a row of trees) that can be picked by two people, without overlapping. The second question was finding the number of steps required to reduce a number (given as a binary string) to 0 if you divide by 2 when even and subtract by 1 when odd. Next came the phone screen, which was an idiotic "interview". My interviewer was some fresh grad, rather than the senior software lead that the email confirmation said it would be, and he seemed condescending and had a laundry list of inane CS trivia questions he wanted to ask. These questions were not only fairly easy to Google, but pretty pointless to ask because I doubt there are many new grads who have such a necessary breadth of knowledge off the top of their heads. There was absolutely no question to gauge my ability to code, which would seem to be the most important skill as opposed to my ability to cram esoteric CS knowledge. These questions seemed especially pointless to ask given that I don't even major in computer science. He also couldn't help but unnecessarily correct me every time I answered, which was annoying.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      OSI Layers, RESTful APIs, CAP Theorem, Idempotence, SQL commands, HTTP requests, etc.
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      Cogo Labs response
      7y
      Thanks for taking the time to share your experience. We always aim to deliver a great experience to all of our candidates and I'm sorry that your interview did not meet your expectations. We are constantly reviewing our process and the questions we ask, so we appreciate the feedback and we've shared it with the team. In general, we do look for other skills in addition to the core requirements to do any job, so always be prepared for an interesting conversation in our interviews. We're not always looking for the right answer, but we definitely want to understand how you think!

      Other Software Engineer interview reviews for Cogo Labs

      Software Engineer Interview

      10 Nov 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience

      Application

      I interviewed at Cogo Labs in Nov 2021

      Interview

      Passed a technical assessment via Codility that indicated I passed the coding portion. Indian recruiter Cogo uses took two weeks to get back to me and requested I do a Karat interview. For those who don’t know, Karat interviews are a live technical assessment performed by a third party. So Cogo is asking me to do multiple assessments on my own time without ever speaking to anyone who actually works for the company. CTO added me on LinkedIn but never reached out, which is weird. I decided to take a hard pass on the karat interview. Bonus awfulness: Indian recruiter that Cogo uses called me multiple times but does not leave a voicemail indicating who he is or why he’s calling so I missed multiple calls from him. Furthermore he is super hard to understand which just adds more to the whole process feeling slimy.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Multiple choice questions and coding questions
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      22 Nov 2018
      Anonymous employee
      Cambridge, MA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cogo Labs (Cambridge, MA) in Oct 2018

      Interview

      Straight forward and moved quickly. - Phone screen. Pretty standard to screen for cultural fit, what your goals are, what you care about. Motivations, previous experience, how you work in groups, ect... - Take home challenge with detailed specs. (Build this with these specs) - In person interview: More scanning for cultural fit. Technical portion is how would you approach building this. Schema design. - Reference checks - Recruiting was responsive and
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