r/InterviewVip

Mostly what the title says. Bought InterviewMan annual this week, and I can tell its really good quality and stable already, and the response time on hints feels right where I want it during practice. So far, I've really liked it, but I've had a couple of questions though;

The TestDome assessment seems pretty browser-locked and sorta strict on focus, which was honestly surprising. I was expecting the overlay to just sit on top no problem, and I guess it kind of does, but for everyone raving about how it stays invisible on TestDome, mine flickered briefly during my practice mock. It's not like it failed the report, I was just expecting it to be more seamless. It sort of seems like it would smooth out if I set always-on-top before launching TestDome, but I wanted to ask and see if anybody has had the same experience, and if their setup stayed clean on the real TestDome or not.

I'm also worried about the timer pressure. I was really used to how my old setup would just sit there and not steal focus, which I appreciated. The InterviewMan overlay feels more snappy and faster on suggestions, so it should mold to my flow better than what I was running before. Does this change once you have a few real TestDome rounds under your belt?

And lastly, I stupidly didn't look at how to configure stealth mode before I bought it. I looked into everything else, but I forgot the stealth side. They say running it in stealth mode is the safest way to go, but looking at posts on here (and for some reason I can't find the threads I was reading earlier), it seems like if I just toggle always-on-top, set mouse pass through, and use cmd+B to hide on demand, that works just as well, if not better. I was wondering if anybody has been running standard mode on TestDome for a while, and if it does or doesnt get flagged on the platform report. Any suggestions for the setup on TestDome would be fantastic, or if its better to just go straight to stealth mode.

Any information you guys can give me would be great. I thought I knew everything I needed to know before I bought it, but now I feel like I have more questions than answers now that I actually have the assessment scheduled for monday.

I had some leftover credit and the company i was prepping for sent over a Codility test for the next round so I pulled the trigger on InterviewMan annual.

I strongly believe in using a real desktop coding helper over a browser based one for Codility for stealth reasons. That being said I have done 3 Codility tests with a web wrapper without it being flagged. Doesnt mean it was the right thing to do.

Anyways, I installed it and tried it on a Codility practice run last night and while I will keep using it because of the whole stealth thing, I'm super impressed with the response time. A typical Electron app would have made me wait 3-4 seconds for a hint, these things land in like a second flat. The latency drop is the real killer feature actually, even on harder problems the nudge arrives before I have time to spiral. If it was my own money on a more expensive tool, those slower ones would be returned. Since this is twelve bucks a month on annual and I do want to land this job (and bonus, it works on both Codility and CoderPad), I will keep it and use it for the real test on tuesday.

But i still want a sanity check, anyone here used it on a real proctored Codility, did it stay clean on the report.

startup runs initial calls over discord voice. mock went fine, except when i tab out of voice channel to open a coderpad link in browser, discord pauses voice for ~half a second and interviewman misses a phrase.

google meet mock never did this. anyone solve the tab-out audio cut on discord? mac side.

Real zombie behavior I don't want to call them bots, but honestly I can't find a nicer word.

They're just... Weirdly invested in things that don't matter that much. I can't make myself care about a company to that extent, no matter how good the salary is. The idea that there are people capable of keeping up this act for years is genuinely insane to me. I'm 25, and honestly I can't imagine myself doing this for even another 8 months - the manufactured panic, staying late for no reason, and then getting upset because I won't stay after work hours just because the whole team is staying.

And it's not just the extra work part. They also monitor the stupid rules in the first place and enforce them enthusiastically. Like, has no one ever told them they're not the classroom monitor anymore?

Why is my manager upset that I logged off a bit early on Thursday? Why is he calling me afterward to interrogate me about it? Why does any random day off have to be "approved" like I'm asking permission to leave the classroom?

The whole thing feels wrong. And what makes it even more annoying is that other departments here don't seem to have this nonsense - but my current manager specifically is exactly this type.

[I work in India. Indian managers are fucking awful. I want to work in New Zealand or almost anywhere else]

Hi everyone. I work at a small business and started about 6 weeks ago. There are 11 employees in total, and one woman was on maternity leave when I joined, so I still haven't met her yet. We have the same job title, and shortly after I was hired I realized this is the kind of job where there isn't enough work for more than one person. So I've been worried that I was brought in as some kind of temporary replacement without anyone saying that outright.

Two nights ago, my manager called me and told me not to come into work for the next two days. They told me not to worry and that my pay would stay the same, but the only explanation was that they needed to "sort out a few things." Then the next morning they messaged me and asked me to keep it between us and say that I was the one who requested time off if anyone from work asked why I wasn't there.

Honestly, I don't know how to interpret this. My sister thinks they're planning to let the other employee go and don't want me there when that conversation happens, but the whole thing feels very strange. I heard that she and my manager had problems before, and it seems like she gets paid more than me because she's been in this job longer.

Part of me is scared that I'm the one who's going to be fired and they just don't want to say it yet. The anxiety is driving me crazy. I know this isn't professional, but it took me a very long time to find a job where I feel comfortable and don't hate going in, so I'm afraid of losing it.

This was quite a while ago, but it's probably still my favorite malicious compliance situation I've ever done.

I was working as a laborer for an excavation and underground utilities company, as part of a pipe crew. I'm not the type to sit on my phone at work. I don't sit there texting all the time, and honestly, I'm not that interested in social media, so the only reason I would take it out was to quickly check what time it was.

The foreman I was with at the time told me I couldn't be on my phone while I was on the clock. I told him I wasn't messing around on it, I was just checking the time. He told me that if I needed to know the time, I should get a watch.

Fair enough.

I went through 7 thrift stores and pawn shops before I found an old, cheap pocket watch, so of course I bought the thing. The next shift, I put on a whole performance of checking the time, like I was trying to hide and pretending I was using "my phone."

Naturally, the foreman came over to me pissed off and started saying, "I told you before, no phones, even if you're just checking the time."

I said to him, laughing like an idiot, "This isn't my phone. This is my new pocket watch."

He stood there irritated for a second, then walked away. After that, he never brought it up with me again, and after a short while I went back to my regular crew, so the whole thing stopped being a problem anyway.