Interview prep that doesn't compromise

Honest, sourced guides for CS new-grad and early-career interviews. Read what works, skip what doesn't.

Browse other content

Company Coding

440+ deep-dive coding problems from 21 companies with optimal solutions

Interview Questions

Company × role question sets sourced from Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, Blind

LeetCode Patterns

25 canonical algorithmic patterns with templates and example problems

System Design

35 canonical system design scenarios with capacity estimation

Practice Problems

360+ LeetCode problems organized by topic with progressive hints

Guides

Short-form how-tos for behavioral, coding, and resume prep

Showing Live Interview AI (5 articles)

Live Interview AI

The Best AI Interview Helper in 2026: Free Options, Live Helpers, App Recommendations (Honest Prep Edition)

An AI interview helper is software that uses generative AI to help candidates prepare for or assist during job interviews. The 2026 market splits into seven categories: practice mode, live overlays, coding-specific, behavioral-specific, question-bank, system design, and mobile. This mega-guide walks through every category, the free options worth using, the GitHub open-source landscape, what Reddit actually says, and which helpers earn the offer versus borrow one.

Alex Chen · 2026-05-27

Live Interview AI

Interview Coder & Stealth-Coding Tools in 2026: What They Are, What They Risk, and Why Honest Prep Wins

Stealth-coding interview tools are desktop overlays and browser extensions that secretly feed answers to candidates during live coding interviews. The 2026 reality: they are not undetectable, the offer-rescission risk is real, and the candidates who land jobs are running honest-prep tools before the round, not stealth overlays during it. This guide covers what these tools claim to do, how detection plays out in 2026, the legal and blacklist landscape, the four stealth tactics that DO work for honest prep, and what to use instead if you want to actually get hired.

Alex Chen · 2026-05-27

Live Interview AI

Can Interviewers Detect AI or Screenshots During Zoom Interviews? (2026 Edition)

Most video-conference platforms can't directly detect AI overlay tools running on a candidate's machine, can't tell when a candidate takes a screenshot, and can't see a second monitor. But interviewers and hiring platforms still catch a meaningful slice of cheaters through behavioral signals, post-hire performance, and the wave of in-person rounds that returned in 2025. This is the honest picture in 2026: what Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, HireVue, HackerRank, and CodeSignal can and cannot detect, plus the post-interview detection layer most candidates don't think about until it's too late.

Alex Chen · 2026-05-27

Live Interview AI

The CS Interview Cheating Economy in 2026: AI Cheaters, Stealth Tools, and the Honest Alternative

The CS interview cheating economy is the market of AI cheater tools, browser answer extensions, hidden overlays, and human proxies that secretly answer questions during technical interviews. Industry estimates suggest 30-48% of remote technical interviews in 2026 involve some form of AI assistance, and the priced-undetectable tier runs $30-200/month. This guide documents what's sold, what's detectable, what's not, and the honest path through it.

Alex Chen · 2026-05-26

Live Interview AI

The Best AI Interview Helper in 2026 (Honest Prep, Not Cheating)

An AI interview helper is software that uses generative AI to help candidates prepare for or perform during job interviews. The market splits into practice-mode helpers (mock interviews, drills, feedback before the interview) and live-mode helpers (real-time answer overlays during the interview). This guide is the honest-prep position: the best AI interview helper is the one you close before the round starts.

Alex Chen · 2026-05-26