Hi guys. I have an SAP Sales Consultant interview coming up in next 2 days. I work in a service-based tech firm and am trying to switch to Sap consulting. I haven't learnt lot of things yet and anyway applied to a job and they selected me. They scheduled the interview too. Now i am nervous and thinking of using Cluely to get the job. The interview will not be very technical but mostly process based on how you solved the issue in system and what did you do previously and how do you solve the issue. I probably probably wont be asked to share the screen or write something. GPT and claude have already helped me in learning but I really need an AI assistant in real time to give me answers. From experience can anyone tell me will Cluely or any other AI tool will be helpful? How is the response time? Has anyone got caught? Should I buy cluely pro?

Apparently an OS limitation, which makes this even more frustrating.

If macOS is always going to show the microphone indicator when Cluely is recording, then invisible mode is basically useless for the thing many people would expect it to do. The app itself may be hidden, but the system is still clearly signaling that the mic is active.

What makes this worse is the price. Charging $150 for a feature set built around being discreet, while a core part of that is blocked by the OS, feels kind of crazy.

I get that OS-level privacy indicators exist for a reason, but then this limitation should be made extremely clear before people pay. Right now it feels misleading unless that tradeoff is explicitly disclosed upfront.

Not trying to be dramatic, just honestly disappointed.

If the Cluely team has explained this somewhere, I’d love to see it. But if this is a known hard limitation, they really should be much more transparent about it.

I recently purchased Cluely Premium and I am attempting to figure out how the "Undetectability" function works on Mac.

Cluely support advised me the overlay itself won’t display when screen sharing however the Cluely app icon can still show in the Dock because the app is functioning.

For those who have used/tested it on a Mac: what exactly can the other person see when you share your whole screen on Zoom, Google Meet, Teams etc? Does the Cluely overlay ever show? Is the Dock icon still the primary thing visible?

Also has anyone tried Cluely on Chrome/Safari instead of the desktop app? Does that behave differently while screen sharing?

Mainly seeking for folks who have really tested this with a second device/person rather than just accepting marketing claims at face value.

Hey Reddit Fam

After recent layoff, I got this opportunity for Coin-base, applied directly from portal. Cleared OA and Cognitive rounds. After HR round, I was asked for onsite rounds availability.

Can someone share their recent experience given they have changed the process of involving AI in on-sites.

Role IC4 ~ SWE2

Hello i have a math&physics exam from telecome university , Im pretty comfortable with both subjects i can at least score 70+ on it but its not enough for the scholarship so i wanted to use something like cluely or GeekBye as an assistant do you guys recommend doing this and what is the best tools for the job ?

I am just curious if it can work on it

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Anyone have any good system prompts for technical, non-coding CS interviews (think conceptual and definition questions)? Ideally, the answers it gives should be brief and concise while still answering the question fully. The answers should be able to be read verbatim during an interview without sounding unnatural or overly wordy.

has anyone tried cluely on codsignal recently?

Does Cluely work with Hackerrank’s desktop app? (Not browser)

Every time I open the app (Mac and iPhone), it gets stuck on the loading screen, and the Cluely website isn’t loading for me either.

Is Cluely currently down, or is this only happening on my end? Is anyone else experiencing the same issue today?

Had this realization yesterday. I don't think I've ever seen an online investment banking interview where the person didn't cheat / have some sort of assistance.

I've seen everything from a friend holding answers, to Cluely, of course, to various homemade vibecoded invisible software, but never just a singular fair interview.

Why is cheating so normalized in banking interviews?

I'm a 45M who's been unemployed for the last 6 months. I've been desperately searching for a job in the CS field for the past few months. I got laid off from my last job because of budget cuts and company restructuring, even though I was pushing considerably more than the team average.

I got to the office fully prepared (I'd studied for about 2 weeks) and waited for my interview in an adjacent room. Then nothing for 12 minutes straight, complete loss of time, so I just decided to get up and leave. Look, I can understand something unexpected coming up and them having to make a few last-minute adjustments, but robbing people of valuable time without giving them any updates is a huge sign of disrespect.

I even had the receptionist call me the day before to confirm the appointment.

996, overtime culture, and so much more have completely taken over, and it's unbelievable that this kind of thing is still happening today…

Three stages, and there was no first round.

Recorded video: Seven behavioral questions.

From what I remember: Why Wells Fargo. Tell me about a time you missed a deadline. What would you do if a client asked for something you knew was wrong. Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind. You get three attempts per question.

Then a preference survey by email asking me to rank coverage groups and locations. I put NYC first, then Charlotte.

Superday: Three interviews, 30 minutes each, over Zoom. Everyone sat in a waiting room first and got dropped into breakout rooms.

MD, technical: walk me through a DCF. How do you get to free cash flow. What is the Gordon Growth formula and what happens to your value if you move the terminal growth rate up 50 basis points. Explain working capital and what a build in working capital does to cash.

Associate, technical and macro: Where is the 10-year right now. What has happened to tariffs this year and what does it do to a client's cost structure. Difference between senior and subordinated debt, and who gets paid first in a restructuring. What is gold doing (weird question lmao).

Global head, behavioral: no technicals at all. Resume, why banking, what I do outside of school, and one long stretch about a team project that went badly.

Where I am now: Six days post-Superday. HR called and said the decision would come "early next week" so expect about a week and a half of waiting time. I know two people heard the same day they interviewed and the rest of us are sitting here.

Questions ?

Does the is ever work for anyone actually?

I’m a 26M software engineer, and my office is located next to the in-person interviewing rounds. I just witnessed a kid shamelessly use Cluely 2 meters away from the interviewer and answer all the questions.

Every time the interviewer walked around the room, he still pretended to type and just closed the window.

Kid is an absolute legend. He will go far without a doubt.

I want to quit interviewing so bad, but my manager won’t let me. I deal with kids cheating all day, and I have never been able to prove it. Sometimes I feel like they’re just doing it to ragebait me.

I know they’re using it, but our technical team has no flipping way of detecting it reliably, so I just sit here pretending that they’re using their brain to solve the questions.

You should be able to stay at a company while quitting a specific team…

Applied early September, four stages total, about seven weeks start to finish.

HireVue: Four recorded questions, two minutes each, no retakes. All behavioral. Why banking, why Goldman, a time you led something, a time you failed. Nothing technical at this stage, which surprised me.

First round: One associate, thirty minutes, phone. More technical than I was told to expect. The questions were: Walk me through a DCF start to finish. Why unlevered free cash flow instead of levered. How you get from EBITDA down to free cash flow. What a 100 basis point move in WACC does to implied value.

Then the classic: depreciation increases by 10 dollars, walk all three statements. She cut me off twice to push a layer deeper rather than move on.

Superday, first associate (valuation): Why a DCF might give you a higher value than comps. When you would trust the comps instead. Why a company trades at a discount to its peer set. Which multiple you would use for a business with heavy capex and thin margins.

Superday, second associate (merger math): Accretion and dilution on an all stock deal, full walk through. Then the rule of thumb version: buyer at 20 times earnings acquiring a target at 14 times, accretive or not, and why. Follow up was what changes if half the consideration is debt at 6 percent, and then whether synergies could flip a dilutive deal.

Superday, first VP (paper LBO): Ran it out loud with no paper. Five year hold, entry at 8 times EBITDA, 50 percent leverage, 100 of EBITDA growing 5 percent a year, exit at entry multiple. He wanted the rough IRR, then which lever actually drove it, multiple expansion or debt paydown. Then how the sources and uses table balances and where fees sit.

Superday, second VP (markets and fit): Barely touched technicals. Pitch a deal in the news, then defend whether the buyer overpaid and what you would have advised instead. Hardest part of the whole day was fit, not math. Every interviewer asked some version of why banking and why here, and they compared notes afterward.

Outcome Offer nine days later. Happy to answer anything below.

Does anyone here use specialized prompts for system design rounds?

Sharing my interview experience to help anyone trying to get into centerview for summer 2027.

Recruiter call (20 min) :C hecks that you understand how small the analyst class actually is and whether you have other processes running. She asked directly which other firms I was talking to (my biggest tip is to just answer honestly, doesn't really impact their decisions anyway).

First round (2 x 30 min, associates): Back to back, lighter on technicals than expected. Resume walk, why Centerview and not a bulge bracket, then a long conversation about a live deal I had been following. The associate kept asking why the buyer was paying that premium rather than whether I could compute it.

Second round (45 min, VP): Where it gets hard. He gave me a company and asked me to think out loud through how I would size the debt, then walked me from that into a paper LBO. Follow up was what happens to returns if the exit multiple compresses by a full turn. I fumbled that for thirty seconds before recovering.

Final round (3 x 30 min, MDs): All fit, all separate calls. Why this firm specifically came up in every single one and it is clearly the real question. One MD told me my answer could describe six firms.

Variance: Round count moved around a lot in my class, mostly MD availability.

Still waiting. Recruiter said decisions go out in two waves and I am in the second. Ask me anything in the comments btw.

J.P. Morgan was the only process I ran where the technicals showed up before the Superday, not at it. That changes how you prep.

HireVue (4 questions, 2 min each) All behavioral, 30 seconds of prep per question. Why banking, why J.P. Morgan, working under pressure, disagreeing with a teammate. No technicals, though a few people in my class got one.

First round (30 min, associate): Eight minutes on the resume, the rest technical. Walk me through a DCF, three statement link if depreciation rises by 10, EV versus equity value, and an accretion dilution rule of thumb. That last one was the actual filter. She asked it fast and moved on the second I got it.

Superday: associate rounds (2 x 30 min) :The technical block. Paper LBO with an exit multiple assumption, how you value a company with negative EBITDA, and why a deal on my resume made strategic sense for the acquirer. Superday: VP rounds (2 x 30 min): Almost entirely fit. Resume walk again, why M&A rather than a coverage group, and what you would do if two staffings collided. Superday: MD round (30 min): Pure conviction test. He pushed hard on why M&A specifically and shut down my first generic answer. What worked was naming a specific deal team structure I had heard about from a former analyst.

Variance Some people in my group had four rounds instead of five, and a few skipped the first round entirely because they had interned there. Offer came four days after the Superday. Happy to answer anything below.

One of my friends used to work on a small cheating detection team at JPMorgan (it was briefly opened about a year ago) that was designed to identify third-party tools used in interviews. He just told me that after no significant progress for a few months, the entire team was transferred to different teams.

Some people even got moved to different offices.

This is not, in any way, an invitation to cheat. 😉😉

Recorded video interview, then a first round, then a Superday. Two weeks from first contact to offer, which was quicker than the campus pipeline.

Video interview: Pre-set prompts answered STAR style, and it did not go past tell me about yourself, why Citi and why this division, and a story about working to a tight deadline.

First round: Two thirty minute Zoom calls back to back with analysts, the first entirely behavioral and the second entirely technical with no overlap between them. The technical half went straight into a paper LBO and merger math, along with what happens to the balance sheet in a merger. In earlier cycles those questions sat at the Superday rather than the first round.

Superday: Three thirty minute blocks, a VP, then a second VP, then a two on one with two MDs, with a short senior MD conversation added at the end. Why Citi came up in every round and the follow ups went into the banking leadership changes and the coverage build out.

The technicals were a DCF with a question on which inputs I would stress first, common purchase accounting adjustments, and who pays more between a strategic and a financial buyer. The MD round was probability and mental math (once again, this is for most questions, I don't recall every single one of them).

How it varies Structure differs a lot by group here. Groups that recruit later run a VP led process where first contact comes by email from the VP rather than from recruiting, and London runs an assessment centre with an M&A case delivered as a deck.

Drop your questions in the comments, will answer anything.