Here is what actually calmed me down though. The proctoring is JavaScript running in the browser. A former coworker who hires engineers at his company said this to me like it was obvious. It watches extensions, tabs, clipboard, webcam, the code editor. Thats the wall. It cannot reach outside the browser and scan processes on your OS. So a desktop app that never injects anything into the browser page, HackerRank proctoring cannot see it. Period.
He had pulled up actual proctoring reports on his laptop earlier that afternoon. One candidate flagged for leaving the tab for three seconds during problem two. Three seconds, timestamped. Webcam screenshots with a note saying "candidate looked left repeatedly." Every paste event logged with the actual text that was pasted. He said most managers check the proctoring flags before they look at the code.
I sat there on his couch realizing i had been walking into proctored tests completely blind. The reason i was even there, in his living room on a sunday, was my roommate. His Chrome extension had been caught in his HackerRank the week before, forty five seconds in, session killed, results invalidated. eighty nine bucks a month for Sensei AI and the thing lasted less than a minute. recruiter ghosted him the next day. and i had a proctored HackerRank in two weeks myself, running a browser tool, never once tested.
I went home and tested this myself on practice assessments with every proctoring setting turned up. Sensei AI caught in a minute flat. Cluely at one hundred forty nine ninety nine a month with the stealth plan, my friend ran it on Codility proctored and it got flagged in two minutes. Both tools live in the browser. I kept thinking about my roommate and how running a browser extension during a proctored test is basically walking into a security checkpoint with the contraband in your hand lol.
InterviewMan at twelve bucks a month annual survived everything i threw at it. Two proctored HackerRank OAs, one Codility, one CodeSignal. Zero flags on any of them. We built it as a desktop app, never opens a browser tab so the tab tracker fires on nothing, no extension for the scanner to find. Invisible to the screenshot capture and screen recording.
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The stealth stuff is all included at twelve dollars a month too which still kind of blows my mind. Cluely charges one hundred thirty bucks extra on top of nineteen ninety nine for screen share hiding and the tool got caught on a proctored test because its still a browser extension at the end of the day. One hundred forty nine ninety nine a month for stealth that breaks on the one thing you need it for.
We have 57,000 users and a 4.8 star rating and after going through reddit and discord and the chrome web store nobody has reported getting caught using our tool on any proctored platform.
One thing i do now before every proctored test, i run a practice assessment first with my full setup. Some practice tests have proctoring enabled and it takes maybe ten minutes. I refuse to walk in blind after what happened to my roommate. And if anyone reading this thinks their Zoom setup carries over to HackerRank, it does not. Zoom records video of your display.
HackerRank queries browser internals and extensions and clipboard. Totally different detection. A tool that is invisible on Zoom can get caught in thirty seconds flat on HackerRank. My roommate lost a shot at a six figure role because he assumed his browser extension would be fine. It was not fine. It lasted forty five seconds.
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