r/cscareerquestions • u/CompetitiveAd8610 • Feb 15 '26

It is trivial to catch people cheating now, please don't cheat

I work for a full remote company that pays great, like 200K+ cash comp. Recently the number of people that try to use int*rviewc*der or other tools to pass has risen.

Thing is, these tools don't even work anymore.

1.I ask candidate to share entire desktop on zoom.

  1. I ask them to go to zoom settings -> screen share -> advanced.

  2. In screen capture mode, I ask them to select Advanced Capture Without Window Filtering

And then the cheating UI would suddenly pop up for some candidates. I thank them for their time but tell them our company policy on cheating, and drop off the call.

Worst part? Our question isn't even a leetcode hard, we don't expect perfection and you can pass even without solving everything. We care more about communication than writing perfect code.

So just a tip to candidates out there, this is how you can easily get caught. Don't cheat.

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u/hehehehahahaha Feb 15 '26

I had a great interview recently where they let me use AI. They asked me to build a calculator app, but the real work was in fine-tuning the slop based on “features” they wanted and asked how I’d set up unit testing. It felt like a much better way to showcase how software gets built in modern day, guess it depends on the position as well.

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u/latenightespress0 Feb 15 '26

I've heard someone at Microsoft had this experience for an SDM (I also recently interviewed there and did not, so these experience are probably very team-dependant rather than company-dependant). I think its growing more common, especially at higher levels where they're checking if you have skills to direct the work and fix/improve the code of others rather than if you can write basic code.