Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M

Im all for anything that moves us closer to making obsolete LeetCode quizzes, whiteboard hazing, high-pressure coding challenges, complex take-home projects, and intrusive interview-proctoring malware. Interviewing for a tech job has become a total nightmare from the candidate’s point of view. Not to say I have a solution—if I did, I’d be selling it.

Note that the privacy policy states that they will share the captured audio and screen grabs with third parties. So anyone you interact with who's using this will draw your content and audio into their ecosystem. Kinda like Microsoft Recall, only sexier.

If our interviews are so broken that a worse candidate could get a job over me by cheating with AI, I honestly just want to do something different. It’s just a race to the bottom at that point.

What this trend is going to push is more contract-to-hire where companies start hiring people as contractors for 1 month and let go who is not as expected. This exists today and I always refused to play the game. But I guess companies can either go back to in person interview or other methods.

Is it that hard to have something "undetectable" visible on your own monitor without video teleconferencing software seeing it? If it's just an AI chatbot that's actively listening or reading the screen while being viewable to only one party seems rather trivial.

Who comes with the UI UX design? Is it to show the $5.3 million dollar in action?

Does tech crunch actually report tech stuff or is it all “X raises Y” type posts?

I&#x27;ve caught a couple of people using AI, which i found pretty surprising. It&#x27;s possible people I&#x27;ve hired used it, but the people I&#x27;ve caught were so damn obvious it&#x27;s hard to imagine much success.<p>now, AI to bypass recruiters and folks hiring by keyword? Yes please I would absolutely pay for that, and frankly I&#x27;d probably pay for that on the hiring side as well. Most recruiters I&#x27;ve worked with really struggle with what to look for in a candidate—the ones with an engineering background are worth at least 4x of those without.

What could possibly go wrong?

most 2025 silicon valley shit I&#x27;ve ever seen.

This will be revolutionary.

Columbia has it right. In a just world, this behavior would be derided and considered anathema. This is moral bankruptcy plain and simple and ought to be considered a violation of CFAA.<p>Even if you are against modern interviewing practices, you should be more against deceiving your prospective coworkers. This is borderline sociopathic.