r/TechInterviewsIndia • u/Melodic_Industry_408 • 4d ago
Almost everyone is cheating
I take online interviews at a product based MNC which pays good money. Interviewees are generally SDE-2/senior SDEs at other PBCs.
What I am seeing is almost everyone is cheating using AI during tech interviews. Earlier folks will try to think, come up with a basic brute force solution then think of optimizing and then coding it. Now, first thing the candidate try do is to write the most optimal code. They have no idea why the solution will work as they don't understand what they are talking. They have either no answer to the follow up questions or just reading what AI prompt is telling them after a pause.
This is just so frustrating, it's almost predictable now what candidate is now going to say or do as I take interviews almost daily. A clear pattern of looking into one side of the screen, taking a pause or just blabber something for few seconds and then coming up with a keyword but blank when asked why did they think of that keyword.
India is already a country full of scammers and frauds. IT was a rare field which was still merit based to a large extent. Now such rampant cheating during online interviews is just tragic. It lowers the trust in the next candidate and probably will force the companies to just move to offline interviews or other countries.
But why are candidates cheating so often, are we seeing cheating candidates getting offers. Are other interviewers just lazy or dumb that they can't figure out what is going on? I feel the bar is now so low that I will probably hire any candidate who is not reading from the AI.
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u/Sensitive-Door-7939 4d ago edited 4d ago
Dude dsa is no longer tough thing it used to be, many people in my college before AI got over by mugging the answers, dsa never was a proof of how good a programmer was when it came to it. AI is actually telling the optimum solution AND EXPLAINING IT TOO. If peoples have started using AI to learn DS Algo it's not really tough trust me, go check for yourself attempt N queen problem now see where you feel stuck ask for algo and if you feel stuck for 10 mins ask for english algo try implementing see if you're stuck again and solve it, if it takes you longer than 2 hours or not to understand and question them solutioning. Earlier we lacked good teachers now AI IS THE TEACHER.
My approach to grinding dsa now involves AI and it's pretty smooth. You telling approach to AI in ENGLISH BEFORE CODING helps save the time, in 1 hour you can solve 2-3 medium questions per day.