https://www.teamblind.com/post/My-friends-who-cheated-in-interviews-are-getting-promoted-\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621-XnYM4nLs * Main menu * Contents Want to see the real deal? More inside scoop? View in App close hamburger button blind back [ ] CLOSE BLIND CAREERS LOG IN SIGN UP COMPANY 1. Why Blind 2. About Us 3. Blog 4. Careers SUPPORT 1. Community Guidelines 2. FAQs 3. Newsroom 4. Updates 5. Sitemap FOLLOW US * Facebook * Instagram * Twitter * Medium * RSS and Atom Feeds DOWNLOAD THE APP: appstore Download Link playstore Download Link (c) 2022 Teamblind, Inc. 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Why Blind 2. About Us 3. Blog 4. Careers SUPPORT 1. Community Guidelines 2. FAQs 3. Newsroom 4. Updates 5. Sitemap FOLLOW US * Facebook * Instagram * Twitter * Medium * RSS and Atom Feeds DOWNLOAD THE APP: appstore Download Link playstore Download Link (c) 2022 Teamblind, Inc. Privacy and Terms 1. Home 2. Industries 3. Tech My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted Uber vibbav Go to company page Uber SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE vibbav May 10, 2022 203 Comments * Bookmark * 1. COPY LINK function We know the hiring process is broken. Everyone knows this. To retain a job, you just have to do what's required. But to get a job you need to slog, grind and get Lucky. 5 of my friends from my master's at UT Dallas (yeah it's the run of the mill visa university) got into Amazon by cheating on the interviews. Everyone knows Amazon new grad interviews are based on cheating. I was like sure within 2 years all of them will get pipped. Guess what all of them are now SDE 2 in Seattle and with the recent pay bumps they are sitting pretty at 250-270k Another friend of mine cheated on interviews with Salesforce(she had a second laptop open and googled the question). and she is now SMTS in 2 years. Not sure about her exact income but it has to be 230k at least. [?][?][?][?] What a clownshow the interviews have become. Seriously we need to get rid of such virtual interviews and fly candidates out to onsites else my fellow friends will keep cheating. EDIT - For those wondering how she could cheat with a second laptop. Main laptop on which interview is held was behind the first one. And this second one was connected with a keyboard. First laptop screen is bent in order to ensure second laptop right screen is immediately visible. Neck movement is strictly avoided. Only eye movement is done to look at both the screen. Then as the question is prompted, start typing it out on the second laptop. 50% of the times it will be already a common LC question. The Salesforce girl had all the questions on her phone screen plus onsite that were asked from LC top 100. Just typing the keywords of the question on Google will give you the correct lC QUESTION link. Then you just read the solution quickly in 5-10 minutes (usually top voted ones as they are short and crisp). Then spit it out. For those that are wondering how can someone read a solution in 5 minutes and understand it ? Oh well she isn't dumb. She did solve 75-100 problems during the course of her master's degree of 2 years. She just can't solve any question on her own but if a solution is prompted to her then she can grasp it (unless it's a hard LC question category). I am not making this up, she actually did this and showed us how she did it. 95 203 facebook twitter reddit hacker news link hamburger button comments Want to comment? LOG IN or SIGN UP 1. TOP 2. RECENT 3. OLD TOP 203 Comments * TikTok awqoao Go to company page TikTok SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE awqoao They did what they had to to get the jobs that they wanted. Now they're being promoted based on their merit, not the interview they cheated. Sounds like you have competent friends May 10, 2022 202 7 + View 5 more replies... + Meta dHAM78 Go to company page Meta SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE dHAM78 @WKtc24 doing business is most often involves what you call "cheating". In business there is no cheating, there is only making money and not making money. May 12, 2022 1 + New sealayof New SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE sealayof In businesses, this kind of "cheating" is called advertising or marketing - you tell the best possible story about your product (you). In the case of your peers, they told a good story, and based on promotions, are doing what the company rewards. 5h 0 * Google A SWE Go to company page Google SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE A SWE I know an external m2/e7 hire at fb (~1m tc) that lied on resume about their position when we were at a previous company together. Made up the scope of their projects and called themselves an exec. Their still there to this day. I wish I could say there was a moral to the story. May 10, 2022 67 6 + View 4 more replies... + BlackRock GcNj22 Go to company page BlackRock SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE GcNj22 Damn @Amazon I had similar experience as you. My former colleague depicted himself as tech lead on some projects I led, recently found out when I viewed his Linkedin profile since I started looking for job and would like to reach out to folks I know to discuss opportunities. He was a competent developer and had contribution on some features of the projects but it feels weird to see people I worked with blatantly taking credits on something I spent lots of effort working on. I wish him the best at his current FAANG position but I believe aside from competency, integrity and honesty goes a long way. May 11, 2022 4 + Meta dHAM78 Go to company page Meta SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE dHAM78 and how did you know they lied? did they tell you? May 12, 2022 0 * GoDaddy qbzK34 Go to company page GoDaddy SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE qbzK34 I think it says more about the company's promotion culture than about the interview process. They probably did things similar to cheating in order to get promoted, and it worked. I don't know anyone who has even thought about cheating in an interview. You should get new friends May 10, 2022 62 2 + Uber vibbav Go to company page Uber SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE vibbav OP Everyone I know from my friend circle has not just thought about cheating but also actually cheated. Some were successful in cheating as they got previously seen questions and looked them up on a different laptop while some didn't. Now you will judge what culture I am from ? You guessed it right. May 10, 2022 24 + Intel / Other cturtle Go to company page Intel Other SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE cturtle This boils down to principles and ethics. Do you think you will be ok to sleep peacefully after having cheated in an interview? If not it's not worth it. Maybe your friends are. Now are you ok with your friends cheating? If not, time to look for new friends. Or call them out if you really care. Because cheating is infectious until that one last time when it destroys you. May 10, 2022 17 * Airbnb / Eng waterbnb Go to company page Airbnb Eng SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE waterbnb Have you thought of sharing this feedback with your "fellow friends"?? May 10, 2022 10 5 + View 3 more replies... + New LCeasyplz New SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE LCeasyplz If someone actually did this, then it is fucking brilliant. I wont even be mad. Lol. that is actually insane. Marry that girl bro if you can. She knows what's up May 10, 2022 43 + New referrals New SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE referrals I cannot even do that because my vision is os bad May 11, 2022 1 * Lockheed Martin / Eng QInsert Go to company page Lockheed Martin Eng SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE QInsert Oh, yeah I thought this was well known? In my leetcode grind I've come across a few groups that share leetcode/sysdesign questions and their answers from a shitload of companies. They even have the online assessment questions. It's like standardized testing at this point May 10, 2022 9 7 + View 5 more replies... + Safaricom skyk10 Go to company page Safaricom SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE skyk10 DM me those groups, I need to discuss integrity with them May 11, 2022 6 + Coinbase BlFU78 Go to company page Coinbase SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE BlFU78 This thread May 11, 2022 1 + View more comments... RELATED KEYWORDS * Amazon L6 * Amazon L7 * Google L4 * Google L5 * Leetcode * Salary Comparison!! MOST READ RELATED KEYWORDS * Amazon L6 * Amazon L7 * Google L4 * Google L5 * Leetcode * Salary Comparison!! [https://www.teamblin] OPEN IN APP close Top About * Why Blind * About Us * Blog * Careers Support * Community Guidelines * FAQs * Updates * Sitemap Facebook Instagram Twitter Medium RSS and Atom Feeds DOWNLOAD THE APP App Store Google Play (c) 2022 Teamblind, Inc. Privacy and Terms