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Practical notes on interview format, AI policy, follow-up questions, identity checks and validation. Plain, specific, no vendor pitch.
Fake Job Candidates and Proxy Interviews: How to Spot Them
How to spot proxy interviewers, deepfakes and fake IT worker schemes in remote hiring, what the FBI and DOJ say, and a proportional verification checklist.
How to Detect AI Cheating in Interviews: What Works
The signals that hint at hidden AI help in remote developer interviews, why detection tools lose the arms race, and the format changes that work instead.
Interview Coder and Cluely Detection: What Actually Works
What Interview Coder and Cluely are, how overlay assistants work at a high level, why detecting them is a losing race, and how to make them irrelevant.
Is LeetCode Dead? What Replaced It in 2026 Interviews
Is LeetCode dead? The remote LeetCode round is. What replaced it in 2026: in-person rounds, AI-enabled interviews, and work samples with a live defense.
How to Screen Developers as a Non-Technical Recruiter
A 25-minute developer screen script for non-technical recruiters, built on ownership questions, with listen-for cues, a scoring rubric and red flags.
Should You Allow AI in Coding Interviews? A Decision Guide
What Canva, Meta and Shopify do, the real case for and against banning AI, and the two-lane interview model that gets you clean signal either way you lean.
Take-Home Assignments and AI: How to Still Get Signal
AI can now do the classic take-home assignment for the candidate. How to design one that still gives signal: planted issues, a usage log, oral defense.
Technical Interview Follow-Up Questions: The 4-Rung Ladder
The follow-up ladder for technical interviews (base, perturbation, derivation, ownership), with worked frontend, backend and behavioral examples.