Things I did when desperately wanting to pass interview

Googled the answer to a question and read of the list while on a video interview

Used chatgpt in very early days (before it went mainstream) during walmart pm interview

I'm thinking of building an overlay app for mobile where you'll see all the answer to the questions the interviewer is asking. There can also be a desktop overlay thing which doesn't come on the screen sharing. I think that'll be the difficult part. Anyone up for building this with me ?

I’ve known the questions a few times in advance

1. Trying to setup really cool background for video calls. 2. Going through all the videos of ceo speaking at events to understand what the company does and trying to impress with right set of questions 3. Doing some random competitive analysis post interview and dropping mail to impress the interviewer. Show that you can go the extra mile

I once interviewed with a developmental consulting firm and they asked me a difficult case, involved a lot of calculations and honestly I wad a bit stuck Had a couple of calculations to do for market sizing, I realized I would look stupid because of my mental math speed Ended up pretending my network has gone bad, bought myself some time Didn’t make it ultimately but I think this case went well 😂

Never needed one, product interviews seems easy if you know what you are doing

I interviewed a final year IITD grad who was very obviously copying code from a second screen. The question was easy af. Ended the call then and there.

Offering 10 percent to the interviewer

All through the interview, I noted that the interviewer was pretty old school. And had a cold face throughout. Seemed like none of my answers impressed him, while I knew I answered brilliantly. Just as the interview was about to end, I said, "Really looking forward to work for someone who has been gaining experience before I was even born. To imagine the insights and knowledge, I would get, woww" His cold face melted faster than the butter pierced by a hot knife. It was a face to face interview and to see him struggling to hide his shyness was worth it 😂😂😂

Had a case study round where I was asked to put down all the metrics I would monitor while building a product X. I went to Google analytics page and pulled all the metrics it showed in the home page and eliminated the unnecessary ones and put it in an order. It was the deciding round. Got the job.