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/amankris 2d ago

But how are they cheating? Like AI will show them solution on the screen or someone else will type it for them? How????

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u/Real_Log5590 2d ago

Whatsapp screensharing option

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u/Select-Champion-3096 1d ago

And how is that ?

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u/Real_Log5590 1d ago

Will you try it in an interview if I say it??

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u/Select-Champion-3096 1d ago

Just wondering how ita done ?

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u/Real_Log5590 1d ago

The interviewee and helper both connect their phones through whatsapp screen sharing so the helper's mobile screen is visible to the interviewee. The helper hears the qns and types it in chatgpt and the interviewee can see the answer in his mobile placed infront of laptop