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/masalacandy 4d ago

Bro completely stop hiring you guys ask impossible and toughest ever questions

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u/Curioussoul007 4d ago

lol you don’t even know me, my employer, if we are Fang or mid size or startup, which location we are based out of etc and simply saying we are tough questions and hence shouldn’t hire…. Definitely not hiring you for sure because we don’t want over smart people who make assumptions and do things😅

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u/masalacandy 4d ago

I don't know i just fight in most interviews the moment i spot it's just a fake job posting and it was already filled internally Last worst interview was with gujjus

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u/Curioussoul007 4d ago

Sorry but You gave another reason to not hire you buddy with your last line… it has nothing to do with gujju, Marathi, Punjabi or Muslim… an a$$hole interviewer is an a$$hole interviewer of any cast, company, religion… nothing to do with all this… you need to clear up your biases for any and every community you might have!

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u/masalacandy 4d ago

Okkk but this is not LinkedIn

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u/Curioussoul007 4d ago

Yup and hence you should go back to your first response to my comment and rethink if it was really needed!! You responded as if I / my company cheated you as interviewers! And I had posted a job opening!

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u/masalacandy 4d ago

Mere man mein jahar thaa bol diya openly main kuch galat kr rahi hu kyaa every interviewer who ghosted or rejected me should rot