Guidelines for AI use in Mercury interviews
At Mercury, we value curiosity, transparency, and active thinking. As AI tools become more common in everyday work, we want to be clear about how they fit into our interview process.
We believe interviews are an opportunity for us to understand your thinking - how you solve problems, communicate ideas, and make decisions. Although AI is an important part of how we work at Mercury, our interviews are designed to understand your independent reasoning and approach.
We want every candidate to have a fair, consistent experience, and to know that the work they share represents their own ideas and abilities.
In Practice, This Means:
The use of AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Cluely, Claude, or any others) during your interviews at Mercury is not permitted unless explicitly stated and confirmed by your recruiter.
There are a few select interviews where AI use may be permitted. If that’s the case, your recruiter will make it clear in advance and provide any relevant guidelines.
How and when to thoughtfully collaborate with AI in each stage of the recruitment process:
Stage | Examples | Is AI permitted? |
|---|---|---|
When applying | Using AI to edit your resume or refine your cover letter | Yes |
Interview preparation | Leveraging AI as a tool to help run through practice questions or to refine the questions you’d like to ask our interviewers prior to your live interviews | Yes |
During take-home assignments | Using AI to draft or generate content for your take-home | Not permitted unless explicitly approved by your recruiter |
Using AI to polish a completed take-home assignment | You are permitted to use AI to polish your work, but should be prepared to speak to everything in a live review | |
During live interviews or technical exercises | Using AI to answer questions, whether behavioral, technical, or otherwise during a live interview | Not permitted unless explicitly approved by your recruiter |