r/InterviewHacking

Had a few ideas but they’re all very risky with a low probability of success.

**1. Invisible Earbud**

Regular earbuds are obviously too big and noticeable so you would have to use one of those invisible ear buds that you insert directly into your ear canal. Have your accomplice on the other end of the phone call. Tape a small mic inconspicuously under your clothes so that your accomplice can hear everything and feed you answers accordingly.

**Cons**: Those types of earbuds are vey inconsistent and have shitty sound quality. Unlikely you’ll be able to hear all the info you’ll need.

**2. “Ear injury”**

Make up an excuse to wear ear bandages and hide a regular earbud under them.

**Cons**: Risky. They might ask for a doctor’s note and will likely be on high alert throughout the interview.

**3. Hire an Impersonator**

Set your interviewing location to an office in another you don’t plan on working at and hire someone to impersonate you and do the interview for you. If the company you’re applying to is large, there’s a chance that none of the front desk staff or interviewers will know what you look like.

If the front desk asks for an ID, I don’t believe they scan or verify its legitimacy in most cases so you might get away with showing them a counterfeit.

Unless the company asks you to attach a photo of yourself to their portal, it’s the interviewer likely won’t cross reference the face of the interviewer with your face in recorded video interviews from previous rounds.

**Cons:** Extremely risky. I’ve made a thousand assumptions any of which could be wrong and get you caught.

These are the best ideas I could come up and none of them sound feasible at all. Does anyone have any better ideas by chance.

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If we have more people, we can buy Parakeet AI lifetime subscription.

Else, we can go with yearly subscription.

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Had my phone screen at Meta last Tuesday for E5 backend. First time using InterviewMan on a live round after two days of mocks. In my opinion it went reasonably well. 3 Sum Closest variant (got it in one go, small nudge on the comparator) and longest substring without repeating chars (made a typo on the window slide, interviewer kept asking me to step through it, took a minute to spot the off-by-one).

PS: anxious about whether the round was actually clean since this was my first live use after the mocks, second FAANG attempt this year.

Update: nine days after the phone screen the recruiter pinged me to confirm timezone for the next round. Anyone else used InterviewMan through all the Meta interviews, and is the screenshare different from the phone screen one?

Got a practice session booked through a service last Thursday using InterviewMan for the first time, the interviewer was an ex-Meta E5. In my opinion the run went reasonably well. Standard sliding-window problem (got it with a small prompt nudge on the deque) and a graph BFS variant where i made a typo on the visited check, he kept asking me to step through it, took me a while to spot the bug.

PS: anxious as the actual Meta interviews are in eight days, ML infra org, and the mock setup tells me nothing about how the screenshare goes live.

Update: recruiter just confirmed the call is on Webex (not Zoom or Meet). Anyone used InterviewMan on a Meta interview running through Webex specifically, is the share dialog any different from the standard zoom flow?

so i'm 6 yoe backend, finally got a recruiter ping from apple for a SWE role on services. team-match call is in 9 days. did a dry run over the weekend with my old roommate to check the overlay before the real round, suggestion box was tiny. behavioral prompt loaded too. not much of a stress test honestly, he was reading off a leetcode tab not pushing me. i've been kind of behind on apple-specific prep, last cycle i bombed a meta phone screen on a dp question i had done five times in prep, that freeze moment is the part i'm scared of. apple's stack is half objective C and internal tooling so the round content i can prep on leetcode mediums and some sysdes. but i keep going back and forth on the annual plan with eight days to go. should i pull the trigger now for the team-match and the interview process after, or wait and do a single month for the interview process only?

hey all,

i landed a final round at a big 4 advisory practice and tested interviewman with my casebook partner. case prompts loaded on a market sizing and an ops case.

would the tool feel overkill on a partner round, or do the prompts actually help on partner followups? final is wednesday, two cases plus partner fit. thanks.