r/csMajors • u/Illustrious-Menu-788 • 19h ago

Interview coder is a free tool.

Stop paying this dude 60$ when it's already open source. Just get an API key and you're good to go.

https://github.com/Ornithopter-pilot/interview-coder-withoupaywall-opensource

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u/MarkZuccsForeskin 5x SWE Intern | 315 Bench | Receeding hairline 18h ago

While it's cool that someone open sourced a free version, keep this in mind:

I'm not gonna make a moral argument about how its 'sooooo bad to cheat' on interviews and how you shouldn't do it. Most of us here are in our 20s,in other words, our formative years. People are creatures of habit. if you make the habit of taking shortcuts and being dishonest when things get hard, that behavior will slowly encroach on other aspects of your life and become the default.

There's also the fear that if leetcode goes, companies will just lean even more on filtering based on college than they already do. the choice is yours

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u/Mansa_Mu 16h ago

Currently getting my masters and half our class has been expelled or disciplined heavily for continued AI use.

Some of it being plainly obvious. I think companies are going to be even harsher at picking new grads

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u/Aznable-Char 14h ago

Half the class? Wtf

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u/Mansa_Mu 14h ago edited 13h ago

It’s a small class (14). And 3 got expelled, 2 got failed and nearly kicked out, another got disciplined.

This was after the program director made several warnings to continued AI plagiarism use.

Most of those caught were international students from India which I thought was weird. Because their education background previously was typically better than domestic students.

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u/ZombieMadness99 13h ago

Am Indian, cheating is a default not a choice. Results matter >> learning when that's all you've been judged on your whole life. You probably get an idea of how those people's previous background was more impressive on paper now. I would say 99% of Indians come to US on a masters for the F1 visa hoping to eventually immigrate permanently, the degree is just a bonus

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u/Mansa_Mu 13h ago

Yea I’m not trying to say all Indians cheat.

Our class is like 70% Indian or Nigerian. But most who did get caught were Indian nationals. One of them I thought was brilliant too.

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u/ninhaomah 13h ago

You are from ?

Instead of foreign or domestic , pls give the locations.

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u/Mansa_Mu 13h ago

I’m from America, R1 University

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u/ninhaomah 13h ago

India's education system > America's education system ?

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u/Mansa_Mu 13h ago

I’m confused lol.

I meant to say their credentials were better than domestic students. Most Indian students had far more experience than we did but were more likely to get caught cheating. So I was surprised personally

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u/ninhaomah 13h ago

"I meant to say their credentials were better than domestic students"

LOL.

I think I will stop at that.

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u/Riptide1737 56m ago

What are you even trying to prove?

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u/HauntingAd5380 4h ago

I’ll make the argument on why cheating is bad. Tools like this are why the future of hiring is not even wasting time reading resumes until you make sure everyone in the department has no one they can personally vouch for looking.

The same people whining that they can’t get a job because they see 1000+ applicants on the posting on LinkedIn are the ones using those mass apply tools on jobs they aren’t even candidates for.

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u/soscollege 17h ago

I’ll worry about it after I get me 300k+ job. Being in the industry so much of the interview process is just bs that don’t screen people correctly

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u/MoldyComboPizza 15h ago

I mean can we really stop acting like companies aren’t already filtering from prestigious universities.

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u/MarkZuccsForeskin 5x SWE Intern | 315 Bench | Receeding hairline 14h ago

There's also the fear that if leetcode goes, companies will just lean even more on filtering based on college than they already do. the choice is yours

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u/SlippySausageSlapper 18h ago

Or you could learn how to program.

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u/LocalFatBoi 16h ago

holy shit, imagine telling that to a first year college kid on reddit

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u/SlippySausageSlapper 15h ago

Why is a first year college kid doing coding interviews?

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u/ThinkMarket7640 2h ago

Because I had a summer job both first and second year of university? Just because you were incompetent doesn’t mean everyone is.

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u/SlippySausageSlapper 1h ago edited 1h ago

If you had to use a cheat bot to get the job, you’re not competent for the role. Your incompetence is what’s being discussed here.

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u/Firered_Productions 15h ago

I am a first year CS major who has a 2000 rating on cf. I am better than 99% of people at Leetcode.

Now as for everything else...

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u/GabeFromTheOffice 3h ago

Nice, you’ll get one of those jobs where you sit around doing leetcode all day and don’t have to know how to do anything else.

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u/DamnGentleman Software Engineer 18h ago

Or... don't use it? Prepare for interviews and conduct them honestly? Just an idea.

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u/Kindly_Manager7556 4h ago

It blows my mind so many people in the world are morally corrupt. Cheating is bad no matter which way you spin it.

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u/iwantobelucky 3h ago

I mean I’m ngl but more than half of cs majors and ppl in tech lack moral sense…

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u/Canadianingermany 1h ago

Studies show that the vast majority people are willing to 'fudge' ( cheat a little). 

Specifically just as much as they can justify to themselves that they are still a good person. 

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u/gmeRat 4h ago

so you'll let the interviewer know if you've seen the problem before, right??

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u/DamnGentleman Software Engineer 3h ago

“I have a confession to make. I only scored so well on the math test because I spent my time memorizing other, similar problems. I’m sorry, Mrs. Algebra. I’m a fraud.”

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u/eurekashairloaves 3h ago

Seeing and practicing a problem before is not the same as using a cheating tool lmao

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u/StyleFree3085 16h ago

Roy is begging Amazon for offer

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u/GabeFromTheOffice 3h ago

It is genuinely nuts to me that someone would spend all this time trying to lie their way into a job offer instead of just learning the material. You know the interview is just one of many knowledge checks you’ll encounter, right? You’ll also have to be able to do the work!!!!

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u/wishiwasaquant Junior, 3x FAANG 10h ago

ngl if u need to use this to get an offer, this probably isnt the industry for u 🤣

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u/venkat-m 5h ago

What is that tool charging 60$ per month?

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u/ibttf 17h ago

this is a fork of the old version of interview coder that is missing many new undetectability features, like an entirely click thru window :)

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u/AnotherDayPlease 16h ago

cope harder. seethe even.

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u/Tinyrick88 16h ago

How does your reply make sense?

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u/HinduGodOfMemes 13h ago

Cool can you release the source code of the new version please so we can have it for free?