I applied online. I interviewed at Mercor in May 2026
Interview
The interview only lasted in 30 minutes. The interviewer gave me some simple codes and asked me to build the code robust. It seems that he wanted me to on the direction of concurrent tasks or distributed systems, including how to process CSV format data, involve sync on redis. I'm a new graduate student so I don't have deep experience on this way.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Fiest request may be storing the data in redis. It calls expensive().Next request comes before it finished. So there may be multiple requests and make a heavy cost. How to handle it?