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Half-Hour Online Round of Code Review and Design Questions

MercorSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · May 2026

Writing up an earlier Mercor fullstack round. It was online, about half an hour, and after I passed I got an onsite. It was mostly reading code to find problems and talking about design. I'm putting this together from my notes, so the order may not match what actually happened. Payment API Code that first calls an external provider to charge the customer, then writes a record to our own database.…

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