Merge
We’re 5 founders who’ve collectively done over 250 interviews - everywhere from startups to Big Tech to quant shops. Most of the interviews we’ve done were Leetcode based or tested skills that weren’t used on the job. These days, with AI, assessments still continue to test code output. Meanwhile, at each of our companies, though, PR counts have nearly tripled. Most of us haven’t manually edited a line of code in a year. Our teams are putting more and more emphasis on code and architecture reviews, yet hiring processes haven’t changed whatsoever. Even the AI-assisted ones we’ve done still…
Merge launched on August 7, 2026 with 115 votes, #300 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Merge is a online code review assessment that helps engineering teams assess engineering judgement. With Merge, candidates review a PR, just like on the job. Then, our AI agent addresses PR comments in realtime, simulating a real engineer. At the end, we assess bug coverage, communication, PR quality, and token use efficiency.
Merge is a 30-minute online code review assessment that helps engineering teams hire engineers who can actually review code.
With Merge, candidates review a PR, just like on the job. Then, our AI agent addresses PR comments in realtime, simulating a real engineer. Merge turns code reviews into an assessment involving real engineering work to produce hiring-ready signals. Candidates inspect real pull requests and leave comments on bugs, refactors, and security risks. Set the level, specialization, language surface, and specialization constraints for each role. See how efficiently candidates spend tokens, control cost, and turn PR feedback into revisions. See how candidates reason, prioritize, and improve feedback over the session. Candidates enter a small, realistic codebase with a pull request that is scoped…from mergeoa.com
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