Mercor·Software Engineer

Mercor Software Engineer interview experience

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CuritibaPosted Mar 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I didn’t even make it through without feeling like the AI process was set up to prevent me from finishing answers.

The sequence started with a Java test with a quiz and a coding challenge, then moved into a technical interview with an AI bot.

In that technical interview, the bot didn’t tolerate pauses. If I stopped to think, it would treat it as if I had finished and immediately move on to the next question, interrupting me on multiple answers before I’d wrapped them up. It then sometimes sounded strangely confident about the approaches I gave, even though I felt like I never got to complete my reasoning the way I would with a real person.

After that step, I received an email from the AI bot saying I

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