[deleted]
An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
11–20 of 265 posts
Re: An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
#12So cheat to get a job then get fired when they see you are useless? Genius..
Obligatory "I don't agree with this and think it seems like a pretty depressing way to live", but:
A colleague yesterday was telling me about how much he and all his friends lied to get their jobs, and he suggested I do the same, because if I don't, I'm competing against people who do, and said that's unfair (for me).
It wasn't even an office job, but I've seen the same thing there too. (Also at university...)
Re: An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
#13I’m reasonably certain that I interviewed someone using this or something like it in the last few days. Lots of eye scanning while looking above the window they’d been typing into. Pauses. Big pastes. One of my excellent colleagues noticed that the candidate made use of exciting C++ casts before ever defining the variable’s types. Complete inability to explain or debug the code just written. So. Frustrating in two di…
[deleted]
Re: An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
#14[deleted]
Re: An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
#15So cheat to get a job then get fired when they see you are useless? Genius..
I’d say chances of getting busted are high as well. The invisibility of the window to common interview software won’t do anything mask candidates’ own suspicious behaviour.
I was doing a 45 minute screener interview with a guy the other day who I could see kept glancing over at another window or screen as he was typing in code. Every couple of characters or so he was pausing looking over, then he’d type a handful more characters, then pause and glance again. He was typing incredibly slowly as well, like a character or two per second, even when he was typing. It was honestly a bit of a weird experience to watch unfolding. His solutions were spot on though.
I didn’t make an issue of it, partly because I already had other concerns as well. I can’t think of a situation where there’s anything to gain by getting into an argument with a candidate: I simply didn’t invite him to the next interview stage.
Re: An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
#16Why bother with this style of interview where the candidate is under extreme time pressure and isn’t allowed to use any of the research tools they would normally use in their job? What is this controlling for?
It barely made sense when these were conducted in person, and it’s completely inane over video meeting.
Instead of grilling people, talk to them. Give them meaningful take-home exercises that you can discuss together during the interview. If they can explain the decisions they made and discuss alternatives and trade-offs, that’s a much better indicator of job performance than pretending to invent a leetcode party trick algorithm in 10 minutes.
Re: An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
#17When LeetCode and HackerRacnk shut down, the industry will be a much better place.
Re: An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
#18[deleted]
Re: An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
#19So cheat to get a job then get fired when they see you are useless? Genius..
I’d say chances of getting busted are high as well. The invisibility of the window to common interview software won’t do anything mask candidates’ own suspicious behaviour. I was doing a 45 minute screener interview with a guy the other day who I could see kept glancing over at another window or screen as he was typing in code. Every couple of characters or so he was pausing looking over, then he’d type a handful mor…
Gong back about 20 years we had to introduce a "pre-screening" interview for infosec roles because of the calbire of candidates we were getting through.
They'd made it through the HR "sift" by having the right words on their CVs but we found that a huge majority of these candidates didn't know even entry-level basics.
There was initially a "quick fire" round where we did some real basic definitions - Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, risk, etc, etc.
Even back then candidates would hit us with the:
"Hmm, great question"
/tap tap tap tap
[Wikipedia definition of confidentiality]
Re: An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
#20So cheat to get a job then get fired when they see you are useless? Genius..
Since interview process is also flawed in many ways luck based, if you cheat and moderately capable, you can totally stay there and even go up in ranks.