Hand-authored diffs with planted bugs — the same class of issues a senior reviewer would catch in your loop.
A code review interview tests whether you can spot the issues a senior engineer is expected to catch before code ships — race conditions, missing idempotency, silent precision loss, auth bypasses hiding in a routine-looking diff. Senior Loop's PR catalog is hand-authored: each diff plants specific, production-grade bugs against a fixed rubric, so your AI-graded score reflects what you actually caught versus missed, not a vague quality heuristic.
Companies hiring for senior and staff backend roles often give you a real-looking pull request and ask you to review it like you would on the job — flagging bugs, risky assumptions, and missing edge cases in the comments, not just style nits.
Generic checklists don't tell you what you missed. Every PR here has a rubric of planted, specific issues — payments double-charges, distributed race conditions, broken pagination — and the AI grader scores your comments against that ground truth.
Go, Kotlin, Python, Java, and C#, spanning payments, distributed systems, APIs, security, performance, observability, and general backend ops — the same domains senior loops actually draw from.
Yes — 3 code reviews are free with no card required, enough to run a full session before deciding whether to upgrade.
Want the full breakdown of what gets asked and how to structure your answer? Read the code review interview guide.