i watched Jake search for system design in Linkjob AI for two solid minutes clicking through every menu and tab he could find and it was not there. does not list system design as a supported interview type anywhere. his VP of Engineering was about to ask him to whiteboard a distributed caching layer in three days and he was sitting at my kitchen table staring at a tool that could not help with that. a hundred bucks a month. a hundred bucks. he leaned back in his chair and just looked at the ceiling which is what Jake does when he knows he messed up lol
this whole thing started because Jake kept sending me screenshots of Linkjob AI going "look at all these models bro" and i already had InterviewMan but he was eating my chips and pulling up their pricing page on his phone and for about fifteen minutes he actually had me. then i read the number on the lifetime deal. six hundred and ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents. seven hundred bucks for an interview tool. Jake was just nodding like that was a reasonable number and i almost lost it. he signed up for the Premium at a hundred bucks a month because he wanted to try before committing to seven hundred and honestly that is the only smart thing he did that entire afternoon. i grabbed his phone and pulled up InterviewMan next to it. twelve bucks a month on annual. one hundred and forty four dollars for the whole year. one hundred and forty four. "dude that premium does not break even against InterviewMan for almost five years even with the lifetime deal" i told him and he put his hand over his face because he had literally been ready to click buy ten minutes ago lol
Jake was prepping for a senior role with four rounds, behavioral then technical then coding on HackerRank then system design. after the system design thing he tried a coding problem and that part worked fine, i will give it that. then i asked "ok what about behavioral" and the whole thing felt scattered, like they built a bunch of separate tools and bolted them together instead of one thing that handles a full loop. i ran InterviewMan through behavioral and technical and coding and system design all in one session on my end just to be a jerk about it and Jake watched me go through his entire interview format in fifteen minutes without switching a single mode. InterviewMan gives you unlimited minutes too which i did not think about until my last system design round went an hour and twenty minutes and i was still going lol. Linkjob starts you with a thirty minute trial which ok sure poke around the interface but you are not judging anything under real pressure in half an hour
then i did something kind of mean and ran a mock screen share right there to test Linkjob's stealth and i could see the entire desktop interface in my Zoom window. Jake goes "well maybe it only hides during real calls" and i was like "bro i am looking at it right now on your screen, i can literally read the words Stealth Mode on a toggle." no documentation about what it blocks, no published numbers, nothing lol. same tool he almost gave seven hundred bucks to. i had already done the paranoid detective thing with InterviewMan weeks ago, Zoom call with myself, screen share recording going, checked the dock, Activity Monitor, every running process, scrubbed the playback frame by frame, ran a WebRTC leak check. nothing. twenty something hiding methods and zero detections across fifty seven thousand sessions. 4.8 stars from 257 reviews. Jake watched me scroll through Activity Monitor showing absolutely nothing and did the face rub with both hands which is Jake for "i have made a terrible mistake." a hundred bucks a month for Linkjob and the stealth could not survive me casually testing it at my kitchen table while eating his chips lol
platform stuff made it worse. his company sent him a Chime link for behavioral and a CoderPad link for coding on different days on different devices, phone for one laptop for the other. InterviewMan runs on Windows macOS Android iOS Chrome and works with Zoom Teams Meet Chime Webex Lark plus HackerRank CoderPad Codility so i never even thought about compatibility. Linkjob needs the desktop app for stealth so mobile is out and browser is out. Jake had one round on his iPad and when he checked whether Linkjob could handle that he just closed the tab and did not say anything for a second. a hundred bucks a month and it could not even run on his iPad. i almost felt bad. almost
Jake switched to InterviewMan the next day. ran it through all four rounds of his loop, system design included, and got the offer. he still has that Linkjob AI pricing page bookmarked on his phone for some reason and every time i see it i go "seven hundred dollars" and he goes "shut up" which at this point is basically our thing lol
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