Mercor Full Stack Engineer interview experience

I had a focused session where the AI asked about my work experience, the tech stack I’d listed, and details tied to my projects and skills. It also made it clear that I needed to be consistent with what I claimed on my resume—if I hadn’t genuinely done something, that gap would show up fast in the questions.

The tone surprised me because it didn’t feel like a cold interrogation. It came across more like a discussion where I could walk through what I’d actually built and how the skills connected to the work I wrote down. The time window stayed around the same ballpark—roughly twenty