@mubeitech: Kicked out of an Ivy League school, Roy Lee landed $5 M in 24 h. He cracked Silicon Valley’s playbook with Interview Coder—software built to cheat in tech interviews—and proved it by breezing through an Amazon internship round, then posted the whole stunt online.
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Roy Lee raised $5 million in 24 hours for Interview Coder, a tool engineered to cheat in coding interviews, after demonstrating it by passing an Amazon internship interview and publishing the recording.
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Expelled from an Ivy League school, Roy Lee landed a $5 million funding round wired within 24 hours.
He’s cracked the Silicon Valley playbook.
His creation, Interview Coder, is built to cheat through programmer tech interviews.
To prove it works, he targeted Amazon’s internship loop.
Using his own tool to bluff every round, he screen-recorded the entire caper and posted it online.
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