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yolk·Oct 12, 2026·Technical Screen·mercorMercor | Software Engineer (Mid Level) | Technical Screen | Phone Screen
Software Engineer
Question 1: Two coffee shops, A and B. I buy two drinks from A and two from B. Imagine each drink gets a quality score, and the four scores are all random and independent, with ties essentially never happening. What's th...
superhacker996·Sep 10, 2026·High Level Leetcode·mercorMercor | Software Engineer, Applied AI (Junior/New Grad) | High Level Leetcode | Phone Screen
Software Engineer, Applied AI
Four questions, 20 minutes to explain how you would solve them. No implementation needed, just describe how you would solve them 1. You're given a directed graph, meaning each edge has a direction. Describe an algorithm...
bobrock1234·Feb 23, 2026·Technical Screen·mercorMercor | Software Engineer | Technical Screen | Phone Screen
Software Engineer
The interview was a run through of CS fundamentals. Some of the questions they asked: Bytes in a MB How array access works in memory What is idempotency Then, there was a small code review segment. They gave a simple fun...