Mercor·Software Engineer

Mercor Software Engineer interview experience

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SwitzerlandPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My AI interview started as soon as I applied, and the questions were supposed to be role-relevant, mostly drawing from my CV.

It felt like it had access to my background and was trying to follow it, but the alignment wasn’t consistent. In my case, it fixated on a brief web-related detail from my past and kept steering into web-dev style questions even though the role was different, which was frustrating.

At times it also felt like the difficulty didn’t match the level I was applying for—questions sometimes landed at a more senior depth than expected, even for an entry-level situation. One AI round focused heavily on my resume and why I was interested, but it still felt like a short, tightly bounded conversation. I

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