The hiring process at Mercor takes an average of 2 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Software Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 2 days), whereas Software Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 2 days).
You send in your resume and then do a virtual interview with an AI. It will ask you a few questions and then give you a case study. I think I did it in about 10 minutes.
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Question 1
What ratios would you look at when evaluating a potential buyout?
Applied through the standard channel and got a 20-minute recruiter screen with a technical recruiter within a couple of weeks. The conversation covered background, motivation, comp expectations, and an overview of the rest of the loop. The full loop they outlined: recruiter screen, then a 20-minute engineering conversation, then a single onsite
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Question 1
"Walk me through what you've been building most recently and why it matters to your customers."
I applied online. I interviewed at Mercor in May 2026
Interview
The interview only lasted in 30 minutes. The interviewer gave me some simple codes and asked me to build the code robust. It seems that he wanted me to on the direction of concurrent tasks or distributed systems, including how to process CSV format data, involve sync on redis. I'm a new graduate student so I don't have deep experience on this way.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Fiest request may be storing the data in redis. It calls expensive().Next request comes before it finished. So there may be multiple requests and make a heavy cost. How to handle it?