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> As a coder, he had spent some 600 miserable hours on LeetCode, [...] What if they built a program that hid AI from browsers during remote job interviews so that interviewees could cheat their way through instead?

All this time, I've been declining LeetCode interviews, and encouraging others to.

But one of the ways that pushback is undermined is by cheating.

Why have principles about interviewing, when you can selfishly profit, by having even less principles about honesty.

I'm not sure, but I had the impression it used to be that college students were among the most likely to do things on-principle. Protests for good causes, for example.




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