Company profile
Cohere
Cohere builds enterprise-focused LLMs (Command, Embed, Rerank) plus the Cohere For AI research lab, with a deployment story that emphasises private-cloud and on-prem options. Loops are smaller and faster than at the US labs, with a strong applied-ML bar and explicit interest in candidates who can ship production systems.
Interview process
Cohere operates as a research organization, so interviews at this kind of employer usually go deep rather than broad: past projects, publications where relevant, and how you reason about open problems. Panels tend to include working researchers rather than dedicated interviewers. The role pages below show what to prepare for ml engineer, ai engineer, ai infrastructure engineer positions.
Questions and process by role
Cohere hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
- ML engineer
ML engineer interview questions and process at Cohere.
engineering - AI engineer
AI engineer interview questions and process at Cohere.
ai - AI infrastructure engineer
AI infrastructure engineer interview questions and process at Cohere.
ai - AI red team engineer
AI red team engineer interview questions and process at Cohere.
ai - AI research engineer
AI research engineer interview questions and process at Cohere.
research - MLOps engineer
MLOps engineer interview questions and process at Cohere.
ai - Backend engineer
Backend engineer interview questions and process at Cohere.
engineering - Analytics engineer
Analytics engineer interview questions and process at Cohere.
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Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for Cohere's core roles, anchored to San Francisco and modeled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not Cohere offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Employee reviews
Cohere holds a 4.0 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 4.0