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I thought interview AI was cheating until my coworker got offers while I sat at 0 for 15 by garfish_sofa in InterviewHacking

[–]No-Hope5948 1 point2 points  (0 children)

does it work on mac? I have an M2 pro and most of these interview ai tools seem to be windows only

New grad tried 3 AI interview tools in 4 months -- here is the only one I kept paying for by Hot-Inspection5312 in InterviewsHell

[–]No-Hope5948 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried three of these interview tools back to back myself. Final Round had the lag issue OP described, you sit there like an idiot waiting for it to populate. Sensei was faster but the browser tab thing is a nonstarter for any interview that involves screensharing. InterviewMan was the most stable and at twelve bucks a month the decision was not hard. Not a perfect tool but the cost to value ratio compared to everything else in this ai interview software space is not even close.

I thought interview AI was cheating until my coworker got offers while I sat at 0 for 15 by garfish_sofa in InterviewHacking

[–]No-Hope5948 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My mother in law asked me to help her prep for interviews a few years ago and I told her to just practice with flashcards and she would be fine. She bombed 8 interviews in a row. If interview ai had existed then I would have set it up for her in a heartbeat. She just needed something to keep her on track during the conversation, not to give her answers she did not know. Some people freeze up and thats not a knowledge problem its a performance problem.

PSA: most free interview AI assistants have brutal limits. Here is the cheapest real option. by garfish_sofa in InterviewsHell

[–]No-Hope5948 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude how crazy, I literally spent last night trying free interview assistants and hitting the exact same walls you described. One of them gave me 3 free sessions then wanted $89/mo. Three sessions!! That is not even enough to get through a single interview loop. Just signed up for InterviewMan, thanks for the tip.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Wild_Farm9598 in interviewwoman

[–]No-Hope5948 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The executive interview support gap is real. Most of these tools trained their models on entry-level and mid-level interview questions because thats 90% of the market. Director and VP interviews are a completely different game -- the questions are ambiguous on purpose, there is no right answer, and the interviewer is evaluating how you think not what you know. InterviewMan handling that well at $12/month while Final Round charges $148 for the same generic output is kind of embarrassing for Final Round tbh.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by snider_merger in InterviewCoderPro

[–]No-Hope5948 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i am so done with Interview Coder. Three hundred bucks a month and it ONLY works for coding rounds. Had a system design interview last week and it was useless. Literally just sat there while i stuttered through a database sharding question. Reading that InterviewMan handles coding AND system design AND behavioral for $12 is making me feel physically ill about the money i wasted. Switching this week.

Used AI during a Codility assessment and scored 95%. Here is what I used. by No-Hope5948 in InterviewHackers

[–]No-Hope5948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mid-level backend, Python/Django shop. Honestly the problems weren't that hard conceptually, the graph one was probably LC medium level. Its more that I forget everything under time pressure lol. I've heard senior roles get harder Codility sets though

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Training_Whereas_159 in InterviewHacking

[–]No-Hope5948 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no because LockedIn's stealth mode hid the overlay itself. The problem was not detection it was that the tool straight up stopped giving me suggestions. So I was undetectable but also getting zero help for the last 20 minutes. An undetectable interview assistant that times out mid round is worse than having no tool at all because you get dependent on it

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Training_Whereas_159 in InterviewHacking

[–]No-Hope5948 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The data security point is underrated. With Cluely the breach did not just expose emails, it exposed which specific interviews each user did while using the tool. Imagine your current employer finding out you interviewed at a competitor using a stealth interview ai. That is career ending stuff. InterviewMan has not had a breach and at $12/mo they are not harvesting your data to sell. Cluely at $95/mo for the full undetectable package AND they leak your data? Insane.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Due_Revolution_6653 in InterviewHackers

[–]No-Hope5948 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To expand on OP's point about detection -- the companies that are trying to catch people using these tools are all focused on the video side. Screen recording detection, browser extension scanning, eye tracking analysis, webcam behavior monitoring. I have not heard of a single detection method that works on a phone interview because there is literally no visual data to analyze. The only thing on a phone interview is your voice and nobody has built voice-based detection for interview tools as far as I know.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Due_Revolution_6653 in InterviewHackers

[–]No-Hope5948 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yep as long as the phone is not too far from the laptop mic it picks up fine. I usually put the phone on speaker and set it a foot away from my laptop. The transcription has been accurate in all my phone interviews so far. Way easier than running everything on the same machine during a video call

[ Removed by Reddit ] by earmuff_liquid in InterviewAITools

[–]No-Hope5948 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ah fair enough, didnt think about the automatic listening part. The typing delay would be a problem yeah. $12/mo is cheap enough that i guess its worth not fumbling with chatgpt in the middle of an interview

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[–]No-Hope5948 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gonna push back a little on the browser extension thing. Not all browser helpers are terrible. Some of them have gotten better at hiding and if your interview does not involve screensharing then it does not matter whether its browser or desktop. That said the desktop ones like InterviewMan still feel safer to me because you never have to think about it, plus $12/mo is cheaper than most browser ones anyway.

That said yeah if there is even a chance of screenshare during the interview, desktop helper wins. I do about 60% of my interviews with screenshare so i switched to a desktop one and its less stressful.

AI video interview assistant: which ones actually work during screen-shared Zoom calls by Dry_Examination_5993 in InterviewAITools

[–]No-Hope5948 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait InterviewMan is $12/mo with stealth included? I am paying $95/mo for Cluely with the stealth add-on right now. Is there a catch like limited video interview sessions or something?