Short answer: Glider AI is the most invasive platform in this series, by a distance. When proctoring is enabled you cannot start the test without granting camera access and sharing your screen. A browser extension is installed for the duration. Every URL you open is recorded and shown to the recruiter as a list. Your microphone is monitored for other voices.
Your face is matched against a photo from a previous Glider assessment, and your voice can be matched against a sample you record by scanning a QR code. Dual screen detection flags a second monitor.
Last checked: September 17, 2026. Every proctoring claim below links to Glider AI's own documentation. We build InterviewMan, an AI interview assistant, so read the practical advice with that in mind.
Key takeaways:
- Glider's own documentation is blunt: "if Proctoring is enabled then the candidate will not be able to proceed in the test without giving access to the camera and sharing the screen" (glider.freshdesk.com).
- "Track browser tab activity" records your browsing history and the URLs of sites you open. The recruiter sees "a list of all those URLs" in the monitoring report (glider.freshdesk.com).
- Audio tracking flags "if the candidate is talking to somebody or if any human voice is heard in the background".
- "Enable dual screen detection" flags an external monitor, and "Limit leaving assessment area" caps how many times you can switch away.
- A Chrome extension does the invigilating. On our last check it showed 70,000 users, version 0.0.1, a last update of February 7, 2025, which is more than 19 months ago, and a 1.7 out of 5 rating from 21 ratings.
- Glider's own 2026 writeup on ChatGPT interview cheating concedes the software limit: "AI proctoring cannot read what is inside another application", and "Some overlay tools render at a level beneath what standard screen capture picks up". Its fallback is behavioral: the timing of your answers and where your eyes go.
- What Glider does not publish is an AI-similarity classifier on your code. Its answer to AI is surveillance breadth, not text analysis.
What Glider AI is
Glider AI sells what it calls a Skill Intelligence Platform: coding assessments, role-based skills tests, video interviews and screening workflows, aimed heavily at staffing agencies and high-volume enterprise hiring. That customer base explains the product. Agencies place contractors into client roles, identity fraud is a real and expensive problem for them, and Glider's proctoring is built for that threat model rather than for a candidate quietly consulting ChatGPT.
The consequence for you as a candidate is that Glider's proctoring is oriented around proving you are you. Facial matching, voice matching, government ID capture, second-person detection. AI detection comes along as a side effect of watching everything.
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Try InterviewMan FreeProctoring is configured per assessment, so a light Glider test may have almost nothing on. A proctored one has a lot.
What Glider AI monitors
Every item below is a documented configuration option in Glider's own support articles.
Mandatory screen sharing
"Require screen share", with sub-options "Enable full screen share" and "Enable dual screen detection". Combined with the rule that a proctored candidate "will not be able to proceed in the test without giving access to the camera and sharing the screen", this is the defining feature of the platform. Glider is not inferring what is on your screen from browser events. It is watching your screen.
Browser tab activity and URL logging
"Track browser tab activity" records browsing history, the URLs of sites opened, and content that is copy-pasted during the assessment. In the recruiter's report: "If the candidate had opened any other browser tabs during the session, you can see a list of all those URLs by clicking on Browser tab tracking."
This is more than a tab-switch counter. Other platforms tell the recruiter that you left. Glider tells them where you went.
Limits on leaving the assessment area
"Limit leaving assessment area" restricts the number of tab switches allowed. The ceiling is set by the employer.
Webcam, face detection and facial matching
"Require webcam access" records candidate video. "Capture candidate's picture" plus "Enable facial match" cross-checks your current photo against "a previous picture captured while attempting any Glider assessments". "Enable face detection" watches face movement during the assessment, and "Enable multiple face detection" looks for a second person helping you.
The facial match across assessments is unusual and worth noting: Glider is comparing you to yourself from a previous test, not only to your ID.
Audio tracking and voice verification
"Enable audio tracking" flags instances where "the candidate is talking to somebody or if any human voice is heard in the background".
There is also an explicit voice verification step for interviews: the candidate scans a QR code and records specified text, and that sample is compared against the voice heard during the session, "used to identify if there is any proxy user speaking on behalf of the candidate".
Identity proof capture
"Capture Candidate's identity proof", with "Enable ID Proof image masking" so sensitive fields can be obscured in the stored image.
Dual screen detection
The monitoring report notifies the reviewer if a candidate uses "an external monitor or a dual screen" and flags it as potentially suspicious.
The Chrome extension
Glider's proctoring runs through a browser extension. Its Chrome Web Store listing says it "invigilates the candidate's session during the duration of the test", discloses access to web history, and notes that "Glider seeks the candidate's explicit permission to install the plugin only if the hiring team mandates it as part of the proctoring setup in the assessment".
On our last check the listing showed 70,000 active users, version 0.0.1, a last update of February 7, 2025, and a rating of 1.7 out of 5 from 21 ratings. That rating is candidates reviewing an invigilator, so read it for what it is. The update date is the part we would flag: more than 19 months without a release, on a version number that is still 0.0.1, for a piece of security-sensitive software that watches your browser.
Session recording and behavioural analysis
Glider's auto proctoring writeup lists identity verification using government ID and facial recognition, browser monitoring, webcam monitoring, face recognition for impersonation, behavioural analysis for unusual activity, and session recording for recruiter review, tracking "browser activity, eye movement, screen switching, background noise, and multiple faces appearing on camera".
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Try InterviewMan FreeGlider's post on ChatGPT interview cheating, updated 21 August 2026, is more specific about which human behaviours it tells reviewers to watch for. Two named signals:
- Answer timing. "a consistent pause of three to five seconds before every answer". The consistency is the tell, not the pause itself.
- Eye movement. "reading style eye movement, a steady left to right scan", which is what reading an answer looks like on camera compared with thinking about one.
Neither of those is a software detection. They are things a person notices in a recording, which is why they survive any amount of stealth on the machine.
What Glider AI cannot see
The list is shorter here than anywhere else in this series, which is the honest headline.
| Signal | Glider sees it | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Your screen | Yes, when proctoring is on | Screen sharing is mandatory, not optional |
| A second monitor | Yes | Dual screen detection |
| Every URL you open | Yes | Listed by URL in the report |
| Copy-pasted content | Yes | Captured under browser tab tracking |
| Number of times you leave the test | Yes | Capped by the employer |
| Your face, continuously | Yes | Webcam video plus face detection |
| Whether you are the same person as last time | Yes | Facial match across Glider assessments |
| Other voices in the room | Yes | Audio tracking |
| Whether the voice is yours | Yes, via voice verification | QR-code enrolled sample |
| Applications running on your desktop | Not documented | The extension is browser-scoped |
| A phone lying flat, out of camera frame | Not directly | Camera and audio inference only |
| An AI classifier reading your code | Not documented | No published similarity engine |
| Your network traffic | No | Glider does not sit on your network |
Two caveats. "Not documented" is not "impossible", and a reviewer scrubbing your session recording is not limited to what the system flagged. Given how much Glider records, that second point carries more weight here than on any other platform.
There is also a genuine nuance about screen sharing that candidates get wrong in both directions. Screen sharing captures what the operating system reports as being on the display. On macOS and Windows, applications can be excluded from screen capture and recording APIs, and such a window does not appear in the shared stream. That is a property of the operating system's capture pipeline, not a claim that Glider is blind. Glider still has your webcam, your microphone, your URL list, your extension telemetry and a human reviewer.
Glider says the same thing in its own words. Its post on ChatGPT interview cheating states that "AI proctoring cannot read what is inside another application", and that "Some overlay tools render at a level beneath what standard screen capture picks up". Read that as the vendor setting expectations for its buyers, not as an invitation. The same post is where Glider tells reviewers to fall back on answer timing and eye movement, which is exactly the surface that software stealth does not touch.
How Glider AI scores or flags suspicious behavior
Glider does not publish a single numeric integrity score. It produces a Proctoring Activity summary: a list of flagged behaviours attached to your session, with the evidence beside each one.
The mechanics are review-oriented rather than automatic. Facial match results show your current photo next to your previous one, and the reviewer can mark the status as genuine or suspicious. Audio verification results are presented and "can be reverted based on your review". Browser tab tracking expands into the URL list. The interview video recording sits alongside "the list of suspicious activities".
That design tells you something useful: Glider expects false positives and builds in a human override at each step. A flag on Glider is an invitation to a reviewer, not a verdict. Whether an overloaded agency recruiter with 200 candidates actually exercises that override is a different question.
The signals most likely to end things are the identity ones. A facial mismatch or a voice mismatch is treated as fraud rather than as poor judgement, and there is no version of that conversation that goes well.
What recruiters see in the report
A Glider monitoring report can include:
- your assessment score and answers
- the session video recording
- the screen share recording
- face comparison: your current picture next to a picture from a previous Glider assessment, with a genuine or suspicious status the reviewer sets
- audio verification results from the QR-enrolled voice sample
- a full list of URLs you opened during the session
- copy-pasted content captured during the assessment
- dual screen detection notices
- multiple face detection events
- audio tracking flags for background voices
- a Proctoring Activity summary listing every flagged behaviour
Compare that to CoderPad, where a live session shows the interviewer the pad and nothing else. Glider and CoderPad are at opposite ends of this industry.
Using an AI interview assistant on Glider AI: what works, what is risky
Rules first. If the employer's instructions prohibit outside assistance, using an AI assistant breaks them and a withdrawn offer is a real outcome. On a mandatory-screen-share, camera-on, microphone-on assessment, nobody can claim they did not realise the test was monitored. Read Should you use AI in a job interview in 2026? and which companies allow or ban AI in interviews before you decide anything.
Clearly risky on Glider:
- Opening anything in a browser tab. The URL list is the single most damning artefact on this platform. Not "candidate switched tabs 6 times", but the addresses.
- A second monitor. Dual screen detection exists specifically for this, and it is on by default in many proctoring templates.
- Talking to yourself, or anyone. Audio tracking flags human voices. Reading an answer aloud, or a housemate walking past on a call, both produce flags.
- Anyone else in frame. Multiple face detection is explicit.
- Any browser extension. Glider's own proctoring runs as an extension, which means the extension surface is exactly where its engineers are paying attention.
Where Glider's documented signals do not reach:
Glider's proctoring is browser-scoped and camera-scoped. Its support documentation describes an extension, screen sharing, webcam, microphone and URL logging. Nothing in it describes enumerating the processes running on your machine.
This is why our AI interview assistant is a native desktop application rather than a browser extension or a second tab. On macOS and Windows the overlay is excluded from screen capture and recording APIs and hidden from the dock, taskbar and app switcher, which is the specific property that matters when screen sharing is mandatory. Our two-device Stealth Mode goes further: the desktop app runs hidden on the interview machine while the answers appear on a phone or a second browser, which is designed for exactly the case where the assessment platform scans for running applications. All of it is documented, including the limits, on our undetectability page.
Where we will be blunt about the limits:
Glider is the hardest environment we cover, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
- A phone displaying answers is a camera and eye-movement problem, not a software problem. Face detection tracks movement. A reviewer watching your video sees where you look.
- Audio tracking means you cannot say anything out loud.
- Voice verification means a proxy interviewee is genuinely caught.
- InterviewMan does not hide network traffic, does not type or submit answers for you, and does not execute code. Our track record of zero confirmed detections across 570,000+ users is a track record, not a technical guarantee, and we say the same thing on our own site.
If you take one thing from this section: on Glider, the platform's weakest surface is the browser, and its strongest is the room you are sitting in.
For reference: our pricing is a free trial with no credit card, then $30 per month or $12 per month on the annual plan at $144 a year, with the stealth features on every plan. Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and the web are on the download page.
How to prepare for a Glider AI assessment honestly
- Ask exactly what is enabled. Screen share, dual screen detection, audio tracking, ID capture and browser tracking are separate toggles. You are entitled to know what will be recorded.
- Set up a clean room. One monitor, plain background, good light, door shut, nobody walking through. Half of Glider's flags are environmental.
- Have your ID ready. ID capture is common on staffing-agency assessments and fumbling for a passport mid-test wastes real time.
- Silence everything. Notifications, phones, smart speakers. Audio tracking does not know a podcast from a person.
- Do not open other tabs at all. Not for documentation, not to check the time. Each one is a logged URL.
- Test the extension in advance. It is required, and installing software under time pressure is a bad way to start.
- Do the underlying preparation. Our interview prep hub, the technical interview preparation guide and how to pass a coding interview in 10 steps cover the parts that actually raise your score.
How Glider AI compares to CodeSignal, HackerRank, CoderPad, and Codility
| Platform | Screen sharing required | URL logging | Audio monitoring | Webcam | Named AI detection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glider AI | Yes, when proctoring is enabled | Yes, full URL list | Yes, flags background voices | Yes, with facial match across tests | Not documented |
| CodeSignal | No | No | On proctored assessments | Yes, on proctored assessments | Yes, inside Suspicion Score |
| HackerRank | No | No | Not standard | Optional | Yes, ML model plus MOSS matching |
| CoderPad | No | No | No | Enterprise plans only | No named classifier |
| Codility | No | No | Not standard | Optional | AI detection on Similarity Check |
Sources: HackerRank on plagiarism detection, CodeSignal on Suspicion Score, Codility on plagiarism prevention and fraud detection, CoderPad's cheating prevention documentation.
Glider's honest strength is that it solves a problem the coding platforms barely address: identity fraud. Facial matching across assessments and voice verification genuinely catch someone taking a test on another person's behalf, which is a real and growing problem, as we cover in deepfake interview fraud is rising. Its honest weakness is that it collects a great deal of personal data, including your browsing history and biometric samples, to screen for a job you may not get. Both things are true.
Frequently asked questions
Does Glider AI require screen sharing?
Yes, when proctoring is enabled. Glider's own configuration documentation states that a candidate "will not be able to proceed in the test without giving access to the camera and sharing the screen". Employers can additionally enable full screen share and dual screen detection.
Does Glider AI record the websites I visit?
Yes, when browser tab tracking is on. Glider records browsing history and the URLs of sites opened during the assessment, and the recruiter can view a list of all those URLs in the monitoring report. It also captures copy-pasted content.
Does Glider AI detect a second monitor?
Yes. "Enable dual screen detection" is a documented configuration option, and the monitoring report notifies the reviewer if an external monitor or dual screen was used, flagging it as potentially suspicious activity.
Does Glider AI listen to my microphone?
When audio tracking is enabled, yes. Glider says it flags instances where the candidate is talking to somebody or where any human voice is heard in the background. For interviews there is also voice verification, comparing your speech to a sample you record by scanning a QR code.
What is the Glider AI Chrome extension?
It is the component that invigilates your session. Glider's Chrome Web Store listing says the extension invigilates the candidate's session for the duration of the test, discloses access to web history, and is only installed with the candidate's explicit permission when the hiring team mandates proctoring. On our last check it listed 70,000 users, version 0.0.1, a rating of 1.7 out of 5 from 21 ratings, and a last update of February 7, 2025, which is more than 19 months without a release.
Does Glider AI detect ChatGPT in my answers?
Glider does not publish an AI-similarity classifier that analyses your code or text for model authorship, unlike HackerRank or Coderbyte. Its approach is surveillance breadth: screen share, URL logging, audio, webcam and extension telemetry. It aims to see the AI use happen rather than infer it afterwards.
Can Glider AI see other apps running on my computer?
Its proctoring runs as a browser extension with screen sharing, and nothing in its published documentation describes enumerating the processes on your machine. That said, screen sharing shows whatever the operating system reports as displayed, which is a much wider view than browser events alone.
What happens if Glider flags my session?
The flag lands in the Proctoring Activity summary with its evidence, and a human reviews it. Glider explicitly builds in overrides: facial match statuses can be set to genuine or suspicious, and audio verification results can be reverted after review. Identity mismatches are treated far more seriously than behavioural flags.
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