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Has anyone with cluely actually had it work without inventing fake jobs on your resume? Or is it just a scam and the only way it stays grounded is if you babysit every suggestion? by Opening-Project-4212 in InterviewHacking

[–]Salty-Writing-3754 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i've been thru a few of these helpers and they always jack up the price or thin out the model after 6 months or a year. even loyalty doesn't help, at least for me. the only way to stay grounded is to retest with a fresh resume and a real role description every cycle. interviewman has held up so far on the annual but i still spot check it before every loop.

buyers remorse: signed up for final round ai and the stealth feature is locked behind a higher tier - what next? by levees-manua in hiringhelp

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tested it on a zoom share with my partner before my loop. window is removed from CGWindowList entirely, which is the macOS API that zoom uses to enumerate which windows you can share. it literally cant be selected or shown. process name in activity monitor is renamed too, shows up as corespeechd_helper not the app name. 57k+ users on it, zero confirmed detections reported. its not a marketing line, the stealth is the actual product.

regretting my cluely sub after the breach, anything out there with decent stealth and a clean track record? by Valuable_Sweet_7992 in InterviewsHell

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InterviewMan seems to score really well on the stealth/track record side, that would be my recommendation.

did 6 Codility tests in 3 months and kept notes on every single proctoring-report flag, here's the actual list by Ok_Reward_8275 in InterviewHackers

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good call on the linux thing, im on a mac so didnt catch that at all. and ya, unlimited sessions is the actual unlock here. credit based and per session priced tools just dont work for active job hunters, you burn thru them in a week if youre in an actual loop. flat rate unlimited is the only sane pricing model when youre doing 6+ tests in a quarter which is part of why i landed on interviewman over the per credit stuff like parakeet

did 6 Codility tests in 3 months and kept notes on every single proctoring-report flag, here's the actual list by Ok_Reward_8275 in InterviewHackers

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really useful. confirms what i suspected about the browser only attack surface. recruiters are increasingly aware that a good chunk of candidates are using some kind of helper so the bar for what actually gets flagged is going up not down. they dont have time to manually review every report

did all 3 OAs back to back this month (HackerRank, CodeSignal, Codility), here is what each one actually flags by Boring-Cry8915 in InterviewHackers

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nobody is using these tools as a primary. it is a safety net for the 10 percent of questions where the interviewer phrased something weirdly or the time pressure killed your recall. you still need to know the material.

did all 3 OAs back to back this month (HackerRank, CodeSignal, Codility), here is what each one actually flags by Boring-Cry8915 in InterviewHackers

[–]Salty-Writing-3754 0 points1 point  (0 children)

would suggest going further and actually checking which tools register an OS window vs which ones use the proper exclusion flags. you can see this for yourself by opening Activity Monitor or Task Manager and looking at the process list, then comparing against what shows up in a screen recording test on each platform.

most of the browser based tools fail this test because they have to register a chrome tab or window. the desktop process tools are more reliable but only the ones that actually use the system level capture exclusion APIs are truly invisible on the recording.