r/csMajors • u/Illustrious-Menu-788 • 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago

Half the class? Wtf

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u/Mansa_Mu 3d ago edited 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago

You are from ?

Instead of foreign or domestic , pls give the locations.

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u/Mansa_Mu 3d ago

I’m from America, R1 University

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u/ninhaomah 3d ago

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

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u/Mansa_Mu 3d 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 3d 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 2d ago

What are you even trying to prove?