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Technical interviews are broken. I built a tool that proves it

1•ruannawe•2h ago
The problem I failed an interview because I took too long to reverse a string. In another, because I was slow to marshal a JSON into a struct. And in a third? Because I took too long to open my IDE — I needed to close some confidential stuff from the company I was working at. Three rejections. None of them measured my actual ability as a developer.

The pattern no one talks about Most developers in a hiring process are already working at another company. They're mechanically used to that context's business rules — which means using a small subset of a programming language's features. Even in long careers, you don't use everything. And what you don't use, you forget. Then the interview comes and they ask you about hoisting, closures, or some detail you saw 3 years ago and never touched again. If you don't answer quickly and clearly, you're out. This doesn't measure competence. It measures short-term memory.

The AI era changed everything With the rise of artificial intelligence, anyone can access technical answers in seconds. You just need to know how to ask. InterviewCoder, created by Roy Lee and Neel Shanmugam, was the first tool to explore this — offering real-time "cheat sheets" during interviews. Fireship made a video about it that went viral. If a $60 tool can pass interviews at the world's hardest companies, what does that say about the process?

I built my own tool After seeing InterviewCoder, I thought: why not build my own? StealthBrowser was born — a browser invisible to screen sharing tools. It uses macOS's NSPopover class, which means even when you interact with it, the interview page doesn't detect that you left. You can search, screenshot your screen, silently paste, and ask any LLM for help — all without triggering alerts.

The result Since I started using it, I've received more than 3 offers from different companies. Did I become a computer genius? No. The hiring system is broken.

Download: https://stealthbrowser.app/downloads 90% off coupon: stealthbrowser90

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https://www.ft.com/content/fd5e65df-83c7-42f3-9658-377c99df42d1
1•cebert•44s ago•1 comments

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1•knoxgraeme•4m ago•0 comments

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1•actuallyrizzn•17m ago•1 comments

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3•vinhnx•20m ago•1 comments

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1•CapricornQueen•27m ago•0 comments

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2•KnuthIsGod•42m ago•0 comments

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2•petethomas•45m ago•0 comments

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1•petethomas•58m ago•1 comments

Tautologism Language

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Free Online Guitar Tuner: No download required, works on any device

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China's 'gold fever' sparks US$1B scandal as trading platform collapses

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9•latchkey•1h ago•0 comments

Gemini 3 Pro on AI Studio has been capped at 10 uses per day

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1•Kholin•1h ago•0 comments