Cogo Labs Software Engineer interview questions

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.

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