Mercor·Software Engineer

Mercor Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

Baltimore, MDPosted Mar 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got an interview invitation where the whole thing was handled by an AI bot, and it ended up being genuinely stressful for me.

I’m a fluent speaker but not a native one, and the format made everything harder to track.

The bot asked up to three questions at a time, which meant I had to explain a lot while trying to keep everything organized in my head. With ADHD in the mix, it was easy to lose the thread of what I was supposed to answer, and that anxiety built quickly. On top of that, it interrupted me several times, even repeating questions or switching to a new one while I was still working through the previous answer.

Afterward, they suggested I could re-interview when I was more prepared, but honestly I wasn’t

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