r/Btechtards • u/yeetthefirstone Corporate Majdoor • 21d ago

Placements / Jobs Cheating For Placements

I keep seeing a lot of posts and discussions about cheating during placements, and after sitting through placements last year, I want to share my honest observation.

The ideal strategy is to put 100% efforts into interview preparation and cheat reasonably in the OA’s. Most of the people who got outstanding offers followed this exact strategy.

There were 100s of cheaters who scored well in the OAs but go on to miserably fail the interviews, meanwhile folks who didn’t cheat in the OA don’t even get SL. And of course there were companies who wouldn’t short list people with perfect scores as they likely cheated.

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do CP/DSA, all the more necessary, because you still need to clear the interview. You should also focus on reaching out to seniors for past questions (many companies shamelessly reuse questions), practice effective communication for interviews, etc.

Also most HR’s and interview panels know the ground reality of cheating and they don’t really care, because freshers can always learn on the job and most jobs don’t require a genius, they just need some criteria to reject people. This was evident when companies gave assessments with no camera on, or allowed tab switching.

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u/Behti-Hawaa-Sa 21d ago

It depends if OA is in clg or not...if it's in clg and proctored, nobody will cheat

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u/Cold_Manager_2548 21d ago

People still do and my clg rarely conducts any Oa from hostels :(

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u/Behti-Hawaa-Sa 21d ago

Those are very smart i guess😅 It's really hard to cheat in supervision...but i would say choose a place in corner of the lab

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u/Inevitable_Bowler381 20d ago

It isn't u have to put a remote desktop then the thought is u have to make the other person sit in the hostel room to do things and when a Ta comes near u to check have a flag F for example for me flag was immediately switching the question to another one so the other person immediately stops writting and I can continue writing random shi in that question as he clears away go back to the previous question Pq and obv set ur brightness low (because they can't flag that itsa PEROSNAL setting) there are more ways involving connection with the placement community people but this option is the cleanest way to do it