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A Merkle Tree Diff Problem Run Inside a Real Repo

CursorSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Feb 2026

Just finished the interview, don't know the result yet, but I feel like I answered pretty mediocre. It really was the question that's already posted here — Merkle Tree — but the details still mattered a lot. It runs inside an actual repo, so you have to read files from the repo, which means you need to be familiar with the relevant standard library. The interviewer wanted the folder structure to…

Shared by a candidate · reported Feb 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.