Inside the Loop: Build Your Own Devin in Eight Hours, the FDE Gauntlet, and AI-Allowed Interviews

Cognition's hiring process is public in pieces: an eight-hour build-your-own-Devin exercise where unlimited AI use is encouraged, a six-stage forward deployed engineer loop with executive pitches and simulated customer calls, and behavioral one-on-ones with leaders. This episode assembles what candidates and interviewers have reported.