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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.

Physician, clinical AI work

Mercor · Jul 2025 · Medicine and health

One AI interview the day after applying, built on three prompts: your specialty and why you are an expert, a recent case and your reasoning, and one medical use of language models with ways to judge it.

  • Community report, paraphrased
  • 1 round
  • 3 questions
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How it ran

  1. Applied to a part-time doctor contract, up to 20 hours a week, helping build AI for medical research tasks.
  2. A recruiter sent instructions by email and followed up with a phone call.
  3. One AI interview, taken the day after applying.

What was asked

  • Your specialty, and why you count as an expert in it.
  • A recent clinical case and how you reasoned through it.
  • One way language models could help in medicine, and how you would measure whether it works.

What the interviewer or test was like

  • Asked sensible follow-up questions on each answer.
  • Cut in a few times while the candidate was still explaining.

Tips

  • Bring one concrete use of AI in your specialty, and say how you would score it.
  • The interviewer may cut in mid-answer. Its follow-ups still made sense.

Outcome

The post does not say whether the candidate went further.

Physician, global health background

Mercor · Feb 2026 · Medicine and health

A physician found the AI video interview sharper than many human panels. CV questions came first, then a written case built around the kind of setting they had worked in.

  • Community report, paraphrased
  • 2 rounds
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How it ran

  1. The AI interviewer introduced itself and explained the format.
  2. Questions drawn from the CV: running programmes, research, care with limited resources.
  3. Five minutes to read a case tailored to the candidate's background.
  4. About thirteen minutes to answer the case aloud, with follow-up probes.

What was asked

  • Running disease programmes while balancing clinical care and coordination.
  • Research listed on the CV.
  • Delivering care with limited resources and building local skills.
  • A health delivery case: weak infrastructure, culture, and working with NGOs and government.

What the interviewer or test was like

  • A spoken voice with subtitles on screen.
  • Adapted as it went and asked probing follow-ups.
  • Knew the context of the region in the case.

Tips

  • Expect the case to be built from your own CV.
  • Use the reading time to plan a spoken answer.
  • Be ready to go deep on each programme you list.

Outcome

Placed in the talent pool; no project yet when the post was written.

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