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AI · March 7, 2025

Stealth Interview

Coding interviews are broken. They're a gatekeeping ritual that has NOTHING to do with actual software engineering. We're forced to memorize obscure data structures and algorithms we'll never use, while being watched like lab rats through screen-sharing. I got fed up and built Stealth Interview - an undetectable AI assistant that works during technical interviews. It runs silently in the background while you're screen-sharing on Zoom or any other platform. The interviewer sees nothing, but you get the help you need. THIS is the only way you game the system, because the game is rigged. This…

Stealth Interview launched on March 7, 2025 with 11 votes, #2,427 of 7,215 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

In plain words

Stealth Interview is an AI assistant designed to help candidates during technical coding interviews. The tool runs undetectably in the background during video interviews on platforms like Zoom, providing assistance while remaining invisible to interviewers. It targets software engineering job candidates who view traditional coding interviews as misaligned with real-world development work.

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From the sources

A desktop AI copilot for live technical interviews. Solve coding problems in real time with full explanations, while staying invisible to screen sharing.

Never shows up for anyone but you. Works with all major meeting apps. Get step-by-step explanations for every coding problem, including space and time complexity. Listen in on incoming questions and get answers when you need them, including all screenshots and chat context. Quickly snap, resize, move and overlay the app without losing focus. Choose from multiple AI models: GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-5.6 Terra on every plan, plus GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Opus 5 on Premium and Hunter. Everyone ships a chat box and calls it an interview assistant. Here is what the round actually asks of one. “Others” means the category in general, not any one product. Comparing against a specific…from stealthinterview.ai

In the maker’s words, at launch

Coding interviews are broken. They're a gatekeeping ritual that has NOTHING to do with actual software engineering. We're forced to memorize obscure data structures and algorithms we'll never use, while being watched like lab rats through screen-sharing. I got fed up and built Stealth Interview - an undetectable AI…

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