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Three Onsite Rounds, Kicked Out of the Meeting Room Mid-Interview

MercorMachine Learning Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2026

I finished interviewing at this company yesterday. My background is physics AI. I did competitive programming back in high school, and I figured I could cram a system design book for a few days and pass this onsite. Turns out I was still too green. The questions were pretty standard; it's on me for being too weak and wasting the opportunity. The interview was chaotic: in the middle of it, people…

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