Mercor·Software Engineer

Mercor Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My application moved quickly at first and then ended without much closure.

After talking to a recruiter and taking an online assessment, I submitted my solution and then received a denial about two weeks later. The experience was okay overall, but I never got feedback, which made it hard to tell what went wrong.

Later, I had a separate, more upsetting experience that stuck with me: I was rejected after a very brief interview where the interviewer joined late and the conversation felt rushed. I wasn’t given time to introduce myself properly or ask questions. Then I was contacted a month later to interview again for the same role, but the interviewer no-showed. That

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