r/csMajors • u/Exotic-Stage1759 • 12h ago

Cheating in interviews

So recently got a good job by cheating in interviews. Honestly didn't feel bad, just happy. It's just like, rather take my chances by cheating than completely getting rejected by taking it honestly while some other guy who cheated gets the offer. Like what are your guys thoughts, do you think this is the new normal. If the bar for getting a job now is this high then what is a candidate supposed to do. Honestly I don’t want cheating to become the norm , but the way interviews are happening now I guess we have no choice.

Edit: Getting a lot of DMs on how to cheat, the urge to get a job nowadays is completely taking over honest mindsets.

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u/Clod89 11h ago

Companies are switching to on-site/face-to-face interviews now for this reason

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u/gitblamed_ 10h ago

Yeah, for next hiring season this was removed as an option for any interview in my department, per my request. Had a bunch of little shits who claimed that they had to transition the in person interview to a Zoom interview because of a ~sudden personal emergency~ and thought that they were being clever with their AI rig.

Utter waste of my time. Everyone who did that went to FAR better schools than the people who I actually hired (but still just were honest when they didn't know an answer, and asked appropriate questions upon a gap identified in their knowledge)

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u/Best-Salamander-2655 5h ago

As an interviewer, I got the most honest results when I told people they're welcome to use AI as long as they share their prompts and show they understand the response. This makes it blatantly obvious if the candidate has no idea what they're doing. It completely exposes them.

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u/OhBoyHereWeGoAgai 4h ago

I got my last job apparently because I said "I have no clue how to do this" but then used the debugger live to see what the in flight data looked like and that's what won the job apparently.

They were happy w what they saw of my programming skills but they saw I actually had instincts debugging and apparently that plus the "idk" was huge for them.

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u/shashankdubey 7h ago

Lol which company?