I see a lot of people on here talking about various ways people cheat during phone screens/onsites. This includes questions leaks on websites (like 1p3a) and even directly using various AI tools to give them the answer. I don't consider LC tagged to be cheating, as the company knows they run that risk by directly sourcing from there. Do you guys actually know people who do this? Are you doing it yourself? I have been grinding LC for a year now but the doom posting makes me feel like even though I am very prepared I still won't be able to compete because my competition will supposedly be cheating their way through. Question to those who cheat: Why? How? No judgment, I am just curious to see your reasoning. TC: 125k #tech #swe #interview #cheating
How do they explain the code that has been copy / pasted into their editor ?
Exactly. Thats the starting point to get caught.
AI tools can explain the idea, I'm assuming. Sometimes cheating doesn't even have to be getting the code directly, if you can have something give you the starting point (whether it be the optimal time complexity to aim for, ideal data structure, or algorithm) the candidate is already at a massive advantage compared to people going in blindly.
Any half conscious interviewer will see right through it.
I interviewed a guy who was obviously regurgitating whatever chatgpt was outputting in realtime.
Does this person banned for future opportunities with the company?
He should be hired coz if your questions are answered by chatgpts then why they need incompetent managers like you to interview. Probably ask questions that A.I cant answer it or lose your job in future, he might be good at asking right questions to chatgpt which might be a skill than what you have now
It's pretty obvious when someone is cheating, even if they attempt to have camera off and use shitty microphone. Even if you somehow didn't notice copying or extra typing or weird noises or didn't pay attention to the candidate's poc, it comes out easily enough with a couple of well placed follow up questions.
To cheat in a live interview, you need to be really good in cheating I guess
Ben Burns of Cisco paid Arpan Bhattacharya of Wish to do his Hudson River Trading interview. Arpan accepted the money but failed the interview. I know both of you are on this app reading this right now.
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Most of the cases the interviewer would easily find out if the person is cheating in the interviews. In this case wouldnât companies blacklist the person forever? I am not talking about the person grinding leetcode tagged questions.
I agree that this would be the case, which is why it is interesting to me that people still try and seemingly get away with it. The risk does not seem worth the reward to me, but obviously that's very subjective.