Mercor·Software Engineer

Mercor Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

PunePosted Feb 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had an AI interview that started with resume-based questions, but it quickly turned into something harder for me.

The AI zeroed in on one of the projects I’d mentioned and asked about optimization, digging for specifics and insight rather than just a high-level explanation.

When I answered with a real takeaway and some depth, the AI gave me positive feedback and kept the thread going. But then it kept pushing the same topic after that, and I couldn’t respond as satisfactorily as I wanted. That back-and-forth made the whole round feel difficult, even though the setup was still tied to my CV.

I didn’t end up getting an offer. What stuck with me most was how the AI would repeatedly follow the same line of

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