Mercor Software Engineer interview experience

The whole conversation stayed grounded in my resume—my experience, projects, and the skills I had listed—and it felt surprisingly natural, like a fluent back-and-forth rather than a rigid questionnaire.

I remember not being thrown off by the lack of a human interviewer. The questions came in a way that still let me explain my thinking, and overall it didn’t feel hostile or overly tricky. Since I could answer based on what I’d already written, the interaction matched the level of effort you’d expect from a normal human chat, just delivered by the AI. I ended up getting an offer, and honestly