21-year-old Korean student Roy Lee, expelled from Columbia, may never have imagined that the interview cheating tool he invented, InterviewCoder, would become a nuclear bomb in Silicon Valley's job market. This guy made $228,500 in profit the second month with a $60 monthly subscription software, achieving a 99% profit margin. Ironically, he personally secured offers from big companies like Amazon, Meta, and TikTok using this tool, and then sold the cheat codes to job seekers, turning Silicon Valley's technical interviews into a joke.
How wild is the cheating tool? Invisible plugins that blindfold interviewers.
The method of InterviewCoder can be described as a dimensionality reduction strike:
True physical plugin: a semi-transparent window covers the interview interface, allowing users to see AI-generated problem-solving ideas while coding, completely unaware by the interviewers.
The king of anti-detection: bypassing screen monitoring, faking mouse trajectories, and even simulating human pauses to pretend to think, even Google engineers have exclaimed that it can't be detected.
The ultimate weapon for question banks: scraping high-frequency LeetCode questions, generating flawed perfect answers instantly with AI, achieving a 93% pass rate that left HR at big companies in shock.
Silicon Valley's big tech collapse recorded: interviewers collectively questioning their lives.
Technical interviews are dead! — Henry Kirk, founder of software development company StudioInit, laments. He has witnessed candidates video interviewing while blatantly copying AI-generated code blocks, and some even outright refuse to share screens, reciting ChatGPT answers throughout.
Even more shocking, a former Meta engineer revealed: some programmers who got hired through cheating can't even write basic code fluently, like drivers on the road with a fake driver's license. Amazon was furious, threatening Columbia University to fire him or cut ties, only to have Roy Lee post the complaint letter on Twitter, causing a stir online.
A seismic industry shock triggered by cheating.
Roy Lee's bold moves have completely torn apart the shameful veil of Silicon Valley recruitment:
The hypocritical mask of traditional interviews: 300 hours of problem-solving is inferior to AI's one-click solutions, and the LeetCode question bank has been criticized for testing memory rather than true skills.
The double standards of big tech revealed: Google generates 25% of new code with AI, yet prohibits job seekers from using similar tools in interviews.
Rebellious innovation from the post-2000 generation: Roy Lee boldly claims that the golden age of entrepreneurship is now! Rather than being tamed by the rules, it's better to redefine the rules with AI.
Controversy vortex: cheating or disruption?
Some call him an industry tumor, while others regard him as a revolutionary pioneer:
Opposition: A former Columbia professor harshly criticized this as a collapse of academic ethics, with Deloitte and Amazon restoring in-person interviews to patch things up.
Supporters: Tens of thousands of users support the idea that interviews are just performances, and AI is merely an efficient teleprompter. Some netizens even joked that he is destroying a decayed recruitment system and saving the lives of workers.
Behind this farce lies a deeper question: when AI can help humans pass interviews and write code, should companies filter for memory champions or tool manipulators? Research from the University of North Carolina suggests that interviews allowing AI may better test real abilities.
Roy Lee's story is like a loud slap in the face, waking up the arrogance of Silicon Valley. With a small $60 software, he leveraged a business making tens of millions a year, and tore apart the emperor's new clothes of tech recruitment. Perhaps, as netizens say, he is not cheating but performing CPR on this rigid system. The endgame of this cheating revolution may not be a moral decline, but the beginning of a more authentic and humanized new world of work.
Want to witness Roy Lee's reckless entrepreneurial journey? He even dared to post Amazon interview videos on YouTube...
