I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Merge API in Mar 2025
Interview
Recruiter screen - Break down achievements for a non-technical audience
Coding interview - Design a game that involves creating a class, data structures, functions. Test cases are given to you.
Was reached out to on LinkedIn to set up a screen. One hour phone screen. Some questions around background and something technically challenging I worked on. Interview environment was loud / distracting. Hard to focus. Maybe ask your interviewer to mute themselves.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Create a class with operations to manipulate a 2d matrix.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Merge API in Mar 2025
Interview
Recruiter screen, then 1 technical coding interview, followed by 1 virtual onsite (HM, coding, systems design), followed by CTO culture interview.
Team is young (I liked them!), moving very quickly. Liked the systems interview, hated the contrived Leetcode coding ones. Like other reviewers, I was not sold on the business, and the offer was a lot lower than other offers I had on the table, so sadly I had to pass.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding: 1 multi-part coding question. 1 standard algorithms/data-structures question.
Design: Consumer facing app with lots of possible deep dives (nice that you can focus on specific portions that you have expertise in)