Mercor is embracing old-school Big Tech interview strategies that even Google and Microsoft are ditching
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Shubhangi Goel
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Mercor is embracing old-school Big Tech interview strategies that even Google and Microsoft are ditching
Mercor's head of product, Osvald Nitski, said that the AI training company has moved away from take-home assignments that can be completed with AI.
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Mercor ($10B startup) rejected AI-assisted take-homes for whiteboard interviews, opposing Google and Microsoft's shift to AI-friendly hiring. The move signals that judgment and statistical thinking outweigh prompt fluency when screening engineers.
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