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Meet the 21-year-old helping coders use AI to cheat in Google and other tech job interviews

Published on: 2025-06-24 21:43:08

A person walks past the entrance to a Google building in Dublin, Feb. 15, 2023. Artur Widak | Anadolu | Getty Images After landing internship offers from Amazon , Meta and TikTok, computer science student Chungin "Roy" Lee has decided to move to San Francisco. But he won't be joining any of those companies. Instead, Lee will be building his own startup that offers a peculiar service: helping software engineers use artificial intelligence to cheat in their technical job interviews. "Everyone programs nowadays with the help of AI," said Lee, a 21-year-old student at Columbia University, which has opened disciplinary proceedings against him, according to documents viewed by CNBC. A Columbia spokesperson said the university doesn't comment on individual students. "It doesn't make sense to have an interview format that assumes you don't have the use of AI," Lee said. Lee is at the forefront of a movement among professional coders who are exploiting the limitations of remote job interviews, ... Read full article.