Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Mercari as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Software Engineer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Software Engineer and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Mercari takes an average of 14 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Software Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 14 days), whereas Software Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 14 days).
Sent me a hacker rank and ignored all my emails requesting clarification. Recruiters are fine expecting you to waste your time on pointless hacker rank but won't spend 5 minutes just answering an email.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Mercari (Bengaluru) in Apr 2026
Interview
it was scheduled on hackerrank, suprisingly no theoretical questions, just 2 machine coding problems. both on hackerrank, do practise on react questions on hackerrank before going in interview to get aware of the platform.
They start with a HackerRank test, followed by an HR interview, and then an interview with the team I would be working in. The interview with the team was very technical and harder than expected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What features of the Linux Kernel does Docker relies on to create the isolated environment of the Docker container?