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Interview experiences

What the real interview was like

Short accounts from people who sat AI-training interviews and tests on Mercor, micro1, Outlier and more.

Each one is told in our own words, from a post the candidate shared publicly.

Consulting evaluator, grading AI business work

Mercor · Jul 2026 · Finance and consulting

A consultant applied to review AI-made decks, spreadsheets and recommendations. The AI interview tested judgement on real AI transformation problems, not buzzwords, and went better than expected.

  • Community report, paraphrased
  • 1 round
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How it ran

  1. Applied on Mercor for a remote role judging AI-generated consulting work.
  2. One AI-led interview conversation.

What was asked

  • Where an AI transformation should start: existing systems, data and processes.
  • Balancing business ambition against what is technically feasible.
  • AI disruption in media and entertainment, and what should be released to the public.
  • Governance, ethics and guardrails.
  • Open-source versus proprietary foundation models.

What the interviewer or test was like

  • Moved between themes like a practitioner, not a recruiter ticking keywords.
  • Focused and probing, though without the warmth of a good human interviewer.

Tips

  • Show how you judge messy business situations, not just AI vocabulary.
  • Link boardroom strategy to hands-on knowledge of the tools.
  • Frame answers around governance and human accountability.

Outcome

The post does not give a result.

Consultant, hourly expert contract

Mercor · Aug 2025 · Finance and consulting

A consultant found the AI video interview frustrating. It asked a general project question, cut in whenever he paused to think, and handled his objection poorly.

  • Community report, paraphrased
  • 2 rounds
  • 1 question
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How it ran

  1. Submitted a profile and CV.
  2. Asked to enter much of the same information again.
  3. An AI video interview with a blank video screen.

What was asked

  • A key project that met a challenge, and how you overcame it.

What the interviewer or test was like

  • Cut in when the candidate paused mid-answer.
  • Did not recover well when told he had not finished.
  • The question had no clear link to the role.

Tips

  • Keep answers flowing; a long pause may be taken as the end.
  • Expect general behavioural questions as well as role ones.

Outcome

He came away with a poor impression of AI video interviews.

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