Micro1 Software Engineer interview: AI assessment instability

My interview opened with an AI-driven conversational segment before moving into technical tasks. It felt more like an assessment than a human conversation. The sections tested whether I could reason clearly, explain tradeoffs, write code, and debug under time pressure. I worked through live coding and debugging, code-optimization tasks, and API questions. The questions were not vague in the way s…

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