Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Cycorp as 66.7% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.09 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Inference Programmer and Technical Staff rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Bug Tester and Data Entry Operator roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Cycorp takes an average of 19 days when considering 12 user submitted interviews across all job titles. To compare, the average duration of hiring at similar companies like BlackRock, Inc. is 14 days, Fabricated Software, Inc. is 2 days, and Apple Inc. is 21 days. Candidates applying for Oncologist and Programmer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Oncologist roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 30 days).
The owner of the company asked me questions about first order logic translations. It seemed to be mostly a proof of logic competence interview. I mentioned I might also be interested in software engineering so we launched into an interview about this role right afterwards.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you translate x bit of knowledge into first order predicate logic?
30 minute interview describing the job and asking you relevant questions on the types of things you'll be doing. They don't expect you to know everything about the company and will answer questions for you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What techniques do you have for staying focused while doing something monotonous for a long time?
I applied online. I interviewed at Cycorp in Jun 2018
Interview
Phone interview with CEO. Several questions about how to represent knowledge in FOL. I found this really unnatural and difficult to do over the phone; Lenat also talked over me a few times, which made it more difficult to explain my solutions. The experience would have been better with a whiteboard-type tool to avoid the awkwardness of using phrases like "for all x Bx" over and over, and trying to explain where parentheses are, etc. Was told I'd hear back but never did, even after a followup.