Mercury Interview Questions and Guide
Banking for startups: money movement, ledgers, and correctness-focused typed code (Haskell, TypeScript).
The Mercury interview loop
- Recruiter screen
- Technical screen (practical coding)
- Onsite: practical coding, system design, and values
Mercury interview questions
- Design a Distributed Rate Limiter
- Design a Payment System
- Text Justification
- In-Memory Database (Multi-Part)
- Invalid Transactions
- IPO: Maximize Capital
- Number of Orders in the Backlog
- Time-Based Key-Value Store
- Coin Change
- Coin Change II (Unbounded Knapsack)
- Modular Exponentiation
- Design a Stock Exchange Order Book
- Tell me about a time you took ownership beyond your role
- Tell me about a production incident you handled