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A Student Used AI to Beat Amazon’s Brutal Technical Interview. He Got an Offer and Someone Tattled to His University


Roy Lee built an AI system that bypasses FAANG's brutal technical interviews and says that the work of most programmers will be obsolete in two years.

A Columbia University student is facing a disciplinary hearing at the college after he used an AI program to help him land internships at Amazon, Meta, and TikTok. Roy Lee, the student facing down Columbia, told me he won’t be on campus when the hearing happens, that he plans to leave the University, and that the program he built to dupe Big Tech is proof that the jobs they’re offering are obsolete. Colloquially known as FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google), the companies put potential software engineers through a battery of interviews.

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