Mercari·Software Engineer

Mercari Software Engineer interview experience

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BelgiumPosted Dec 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a compact three-round loop, and it had a fairly specific structure.

The first round mixed a short assignment about Mercari with an online algorithm test. After that, I had a technical conversation with engineers and HR, and then a third interview focused on the bigger picture of what they were hiring for—Mercari was looking to bring on more non-Japanese employees.

That last point mattered because it set the context for why they ran the interviews the way they did, and it also reassured me that the whole process could be done in English. The difficulty felt noticeably higher than an average screen, mostly because the sequence combined assignment work with an

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