An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews

What options are available for the on-site?

Just in case this repo isn't a joke and some job seekers are seriously thinking of this tactic...

Companies already know about cheat methods like this and candidates still have to demonstrate skills in-person on a whiteboard in a 2nd round of tech interviews.

A high-paying FAANG job isn't going to hire candidates based on just one remote Zoom tech interview.

That still may not deter some folks and they'll try to continue to find some cheating technique to use in front of the whiteboard. In that case, some creativity is going to be required. E.g. : https://www.google.com/search?q=chess+cheating+anal+beads

The issue is that "chess board moves" is very low bandwidth and can be efficiently encoded into pseudo-quasi- Morse Code vibration schemes. However, if you're asked to "invert a binary tree" or any other open-ended random puzzles, it's more difficult to compress a secret 2-way high-bandwidth communication with ChatGPT into a hidden butt plug. (But then again, if a candidate is actually able to fool people with hidden ChatGPT hacks in a face-to-face interview, maybe FAANG should hire them based on that alone.)

Keep on the lookout for a github repo with ChatGPT butt-plug communication.

People rarely get fired solely due to technical incompetence, in my experience.

Technical competence happens to be much easier to test for than most of the other factors, and it can compensate to some degree for e.g. bad interpersonal skills. This is indeed part of why tech is such an autism-friendly field. But I've only seen a few people get let go for being great team players, excellent requirements analysts, etc., but just totally unable to code - for better or worse.

(More common is they get shifted to a role which better aligns with their "true" skillset. Why didn't they get this role in the first place? Again: Hard to test for.)

looking at the despair at https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions i am completely certain people are not above cheating

even if its not an app, everything is so cheap and small now, 1mm camera and microphone, and very tiny ear piece (invisible with longer hair), or even earless headphones, realtime whisper turbo and groq llama3.3 can absolutely pass most interviews and answer most questions

even without the tech, i am sure people are now cheating on face to face interviews as well

i worked at fairly big company, and did maybe 500 interviews, i never knew how the candidate would look in advance, so i dont see why cant someone else shows up to the interview, pass it and then the real person shows up for the job

I don't get why companies waste time with this sort of interview that just turns into this stupid cat and mouse game. Even ignoring this sort of software, someone cramming leet code exercises is the same thing in my view (they won't remember or use in their work 99% of that stuff).

Just talk to the person, talk about the sorts of problems you expect them to solve. Can they understand the problem? Do they have ideas on how to solve it? Maybe give them a small take home exercise related to the work they'll be doing. Discuss it with them to see if they were the ones that actually wrote it.

Sometimes you don't even need the take home exercise. If they have niche knowledge on the subject you care about they're probably good enough by default (since they are clearly invested and studious in that case).

I only hired a few people in my career but every single one was a huge boon to the team, still around even after I quit as a manager. I didn't even give them a take home exercise. Didn't need to.