Cohesity

Role: Software Engineer - API Design

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: Not Specified (experience reported 2025-07-11)

Interview Type: Full-Time

Result: Rejected

Difficulty: Hard

Rounds: 1 round

Topics Asked: System Design (REST API design)

Experience:

The candidate experienced one interview round for a Software Engineer (API Design) position.

Round 1 (Zoom Interview, 1 hour): The core task was to design REST API web services for contact management (add, delete, get, search), with an emphasis on scalability. At the end of the interview, the interviewer provided feedback, stating that the candidate needed to improve their API designing skills, suggesting a lack of experience with endpoint REST API Designing based on their proposed design.

The candidate was rejected in this first round, as the company expected perfection in API Designing for the role.