is Cluely a scam or am i being paranoid after that 2025 breach coverup?
My partner and I are both 30 and we recently started job hunting again. My partner is just finishing a coding bootcamp and I work in a relatively niche product role. We've each signed up for a Cluely subscription on the recommendation of a friend who used it last hiring cycle.
The tool gives you live AI suggestions during a remote interview, so you can lean on it if you blank out on a question, and the higher tier is supposed to hide the overlay from whatever the interviewer sees on their end.
The pricing is a bit of a thing too. There's a base plan and then a higher stealth plan, and from what I can tell only the higher one is actually any use during a screen share, which is a few times the price of the base.
I suppose I'm just looking for some reassurance one way or the other (I know that's a subjective question) from people who probably have a much better sense of these tools than I do. There was that big 2025 breach where tens of thousands of users had their data leaked, and from what I read the company didn't really comment on it for weeks afterwards. Does anyone here have any experience with these types of tools? Has anyone here actually used Cluely through a full loop without it falling apart?