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Boutique strategy shop, healthcare focus, first job out of school. Final round at a tier 1 in three weeks. A buddy at MBB ran a sunday mock with me on his InterviewMan, prompts handled the market entry and profitability cases. Anyone here used it for the real interview? How did the prompts hold when the interviewer pivots mid case?

Recruiter at a mid market SaaS shop, two years in. Chasing a senior HRBP jump, four months on fintech interviews and a regional payer in parallel. A friend let me try InterviewMan on a mock yesterday, the prompts handled a layoff roleplay and a comp ladder pivot cleanly. Did anyone here use InterviewMan in a real senior HR panel? Did the prompt latency keep up?

A recruiter reached out for netflix senior swe and the first round is booked for next week, 90 min recruiter chat plus a coding warm up on their shared editor. I ran interviewman through a dry run over the weekend to see how it sat on screen, the window stayed small in the corner and the prompts came up fast.

I havent heard back from anyone who actually took it through the netflix process, senior swe especially. Should I assume the shared editor catches it, or does the round stay clean with the prompts going?

Hi.

I'm an ML engineer, and while our prep is leaning on Python coding rounds extensively, and most of the practice we're doing are leetcode style problems with the same patterns, there are a couple of specific situations that are happening right now where i need to really lean on some "live prompt" tool, to get far better answers in the panel.

In most cases, folks will blindly jump into building their own anki deck but i wanted to see, would it make sense to go for an InterviewMan setup? Is InterviewMan mature enough? I tried it briefly on a friend's account during a mock he ran for me, and the prompts on the system design portion were tight, and that was my main inspiration for asking this question. If you've gone this route, what were your hurdles? What should i look out for, and what should i look forward to? Was running the two device setup hard? Was the desktop app on Mac stable enough that it made the live panel experience smooth?

Thank you!

I've been prepping for a final round that's been on my calendar for six weeks. I work in a government adjacent ops PM role. I have another three weeks before the final, but the format is absolute chaos. The panel lacks a clear rubric, since i've been put through the early rounds we've had to confirm and re-confirm what's actually being tested even amongst the recruiter and the hiring manager (who don't seem aligned). I've been told to expect a go forward strategy presentation, but a large part of me thinks the rubric is fuzzy, i'd rather focus on getting my own charter and schedule talk track tight. I did a quick dry run of InterviewMan to confirm the screen share wasn't leaking my notes, then planned to use it in the real round, but the panel format is moving around weekly. Everyone feels stressed and it's because no one is clear on what the priority signal is, or what scenario they want me to walk through next.

The other side of this is the political part of the panel. The business unit lead (technically the hiring sponsor) absolutely scrutinizes the PMO talk track and has expressed that PM candidates simply slow down the live discussion. I don't disagree after seeing what my recruiter has told me, or how the panel nitpicks at various rubric items (their nitpicking creates a vibe that doesn't actually move the round forward). The business is planning to push the panel to reduce structured questions and run more open scenario play.

What first steps would you take with InterviewMan? What would you include in your live round prep?

Most of the interview helper tools (older ones, etc.) in the data science prep space depend on a clean question type, which is usually fine for the textbook intuition rounds. Here's my issue:

Many DS panels (involving live SQL, product case, metric tree pivots) have messy nonsmooth follow ups. This means that the "answers" coming from a generic tool are not guaranteed to be real DS framings (or even decent scaffolds) for the actual round. These auto generated answers will let you keep talking, but to my knowledge there isn't a clear pattern characterizing when it will hold up live.

I did a quick dry run with it the night before a real panel last week, just to confirm nothing showed on the share.

My question. Does this actually work for anyone? Are there folks who have closed a senior DS final round running it?

i passed the netflix codesignal and the recruiter locked in the technical rounds for thursday. did a dry run with a coworker to confirm nothing showed on the screen share and the prompts came through clean. the interview is four rounds, two coding on netflix's shared editor, one sysdes, one behavioral, all zoom.

curious if anyone has run the tool through a netflix technical interview. how did the suggestion box behave when the editor tab was the one being shared not the whole desktop?

Don't get me wrong, i tested InterviewMan for two days with my roommate just to make sure nothing showed on the screen share and it was actually kind of amazing. But i have a recruiter screen at one of the F companies next week. Not really sure testing it with a friend tells me anything useful about the real thing. It was on zoom, he was super chill, no actual pressure on either side. The real interview process is going to be five back to back rounds with engineers who do this every week of their lives. They probably catch eye drift before you even notice you did it. I keep going back and forth on the annual plan, waiting feels stupid because the recruiter screen is in eight days. People who actually used it in a live FAANG interview, did it hold up. Or is this one of those things that works fine in a test run but falls apart the second a real engineer starts a screenshare?

Built a Python desktop app that lets you search across 12 job providers simultaneously — no more switching between tabs.

Supported sources:
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Features:
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I was given an official warning that my job could be in jeopardy because of claims that there is a terrible bad smell!

I have to put up with 2 more months at this company so I can be eligible to receive my pension. If I leave the job before then, my pension will be reduced by about 45%, or maybe more.

This time, my boss called me into his office and gave me a formal written warning saying that I have bad body odor and terrible breath. He said that several employees had come to him and complained that they can barely sit next to me or be in the same room with me. The Regional HR Manager was there too, and then he started giving me an embarrassing speech about basic hygiene.

I told both of them that my hygiene, health, and appearance are very important to me. I take a shower every day, use good soap and deodorant, brush my teeth 3 times a day, use mouthwash, and keep my clothes clean with a well-known detergent in a relatively new washer and dryer. I also don't wear my work clothes again between washes. They basically smirked and said they weren't convinced.

After that, I asked people I trust, both at work and outside of work, whether I had bad breath or body odor. Every single one of them said no, not at all.

My lawyer says the next step is for me to request a formal workplace investigation, with a neutral outside person interviewing employees to find out whether there is any truth behind these smell accusations. They also need to look into the hostile workplace situation, because my boss is constantly yelling at me, and now it's clear that he's inventing reasons to push me out. The whole thing just keeps getting worse.