How InterviewMan Stays Hidden
Learn how InterviewMan is designed to stay hidden during screen sharing and monitored interviews.
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Coding interview platforms employ various detection methods to prevent cheating. Here's how they try to detect tools like InterviewMan, and how we counter each measure.
InterviewMan has never been detected in our real interview tests by any coding platform.
Detection Methods & Our Counter-Measures
Below are the common methods platforms use to detect cheating, and how InterviewMan makes each one ineffective. Each card pairs a detection method with the counter-measure that neutralizes it.
Screen Sharing Detection
Interviewers will ask you to share your screen on platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, Hackerrank, and Coderpad.
App is invisible to screen sharing software and screenshots
Asking for reasoning behind solutions
Interviewers will ask you to reason out your solution and don't just want code.
Interviewers will ask you to explain your solutions. InterviewMan comes with every line of code commented, as well as a few sentences of thoughts that will naturally lead you to a solution.
Webcam Monitoring
Platforms track eye movements and suspicious looking away from screen
Use ⌘ + the arrow keys to move the app with the solutions over your coding area so that your eyes never move from the code area.
Active tab monitoring
Platforms will check if your cursor becomes inactive, or if you move from the active tab.
InterviewMan is designed so that when you toggle visibility with ⌘ +B, your cursor will stay focused, and your active tab will not change at all. You can also press ⌘ + I to toggle mouse pass-through, so your clicks go straight through the overlay to your interview window.