I've got an interview coming up and I’m seriously considering using InterviewCoder. I’d really like to know though: Has anyone here been caught, like ever ? What’s the probability of getting caught?
(most of my interviews will be for big tech btw)
Just finished the Bank of America IB interview process and figured I’d write down what each round actually looked like since I couldn’t find much detail on the process beforehand.
HireVue: Five questions with thirty seconds to prepare and three minutes to record. Four were standard behavioral prompts, a team goal and a failure and a conflict with a coworker. The last one asked me to discuss a current global event, how it was affecting the markets, and why that mattered for the role, and it was the only one that needed anything beyond a prepared story.
First round: Thirty minutes with an analyst on the coverage team (stayed on the surface really). They ask questions like: Walk me through your resume, what EBITDA is and why bankers use it, how you would value a company. Several people I spoke to never had this round at all and went from the HireVue straight to the Superday.
Superday: Four thirty minute interviews back to back, analysts up to an MD, with two interviewers sitting in on a couple of them.
The analyst rounds carried the technicals and they built on each other, opening with three statement linkage and a ten dollar increase in depreciation, then a paper LBO, then a MOIC and IRR question on a five year exit at the same multiple. Senior versus subordinated debt came up as well, which no other bank asked me. The senior rounds were fit, mostly why Bank of America over another bulge bracket and a recent transaction with the rationale behind it.
Outcome: Interviewed Thursday, offer Monday. Candidates recruiting through the core schools got a shorter version of the same day, one technical block and one behavioral, an hour in total.
Happy to answer questions about any round.
the post-mortems after bad quarters tend to surface the same thing. deals that closed almost all had a concrete event right before the account engaged.expansion, a new initiative, a role change, something shifted. deals that didn't close were often accounts that were curious, took a meeting, then dropped off. good lead quality on paper, no urgency underneath.
nothing from this context typically lives in the CRM before the deal is lost. just stages and dollar amounts.
how are other demand gen teams handling this? is there any upstream way to capture whether an inbound prospect has a live buying reason, or does everyone just discover it retroactively? and if you do capture it somehow, what does that actually look like in practice?
I've seen a lot of people in class action Discords talk about ClaimMoney.
I'm just looking to get some extra feedback from another source of information than the few people I've talked to.
Has anyone here used it, and how has your experience been overall?
it's turtles all the way down. the loudest voices teaching cold email aren't running it for a product, they're running it to sell you the course about running it. the case study is about growing the audience that buys the case study. the guru's only real customer is you.
the genuinely useful stuff comes from people who post like twice a year, share one specific thing that worked, include the part where it broke, and are visibly too busy with an actual job to build a personal brand. am i being cynical or is the signal-to-guru ratio really this cooked? and how do you filter for people with actual skin in the game vs skin in the course?
it's turtles all the way down. the loudest voices teaching cold email aren't running it for a product, they're running it to sell you the course about running it. the case study is about growing the audience that buys the case study. the guru's only real customer is you.
the genuinely useful stuff comes from people who post like twice a year, share one specific thing that worked, include the part where it broke, and are visibly too busy with an actual job to build a personal brand. am i being cynical or is the signal-to-guru ratio really this cooked? and how do you filter for people with actual skin in the game vs skin in the course?
What's one AI agent you think more people should know about, but somehow is still flying under the radar?
Drop your hidden gems in the comments. I swear if someone says Cursor I'm gonna crash out.
everyone calculates agent cost by counting tokens.
wrong spreadsheet.
the expensive part is everything that happens when the agent is 90% right. it enriches the wrong person, retries a broken api five times, writes fiction into the crm, launches the same workflow twice, and eventually asks a human to clean up the “automation.”
a hugeeee amount of salespeople using agents say data quality issues are already hurting sales. openai and anthropic both recommend tracing, evaluations, guardrails, retries, checkpoints, and human review for production agents. all necessary. none free.
so don’t ask, “how much does one agent run cost?”
ask, “how much does a bad run cost, and how quickly will we notice?” ahhaha because it can be a disaster. Trust me
tokens are cheap
reliability is the subscription
45 minutes a day is all I have. Done UGC before but most platforms take 2 to 3 days to verify and only pay half the time.
Looking for something that gives out scripts, pays reliably, and has good rates.
Anyone doing UGC on a tight schedule, what are you using?