Nikita Orlov's profile on Product Hunt

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Co-founder of JobPath. Ex-developer, which is how I ended up with strong opinions about how tech interviews are broken. We build an AI interview assistant that stays invisible when you share your screen. Some people call it cheating. I think the format is the cheat. Asking candidates to memorize algorithms under a stopwatch hasn't measured real engineering skill for a long time, and everyone in the industry quietly knows it. Long-term goal: JobPath forces companies to actually reinvent how they hire. If our product becomes unnecessary because formats fix themselves, that's a good outcome. Find me in the comments if you want to argue about hiring.

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JobPathReal-time AI hints on interviews, invisible on screen
Apr 2026

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Joined Product HuntApril 23rd, 2026

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16h ago

Why Whisper breaks on Russian tech interviews — and what we did about it

In January I bought subscriptions to Cluely, Final Round AI, and Sensei. I wanted to see how they handle Russian tech interviews, since all three claim to support Russian. I connected them one at a time to a test call in Telemost (I doubt the platform mattered, but anyway), ran the same recording through each: Senior Python backend developer, 45 minutes, stack is FastAPI + PostgreSQL + Kafka + Kubernetes. Regular Russian speaker from Moscow, if that matters, no speech issues, normal microphone.

All three produced a transcript. All three failed, what a surprise.

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17h ago

How apps hide windows from screen capture — and what broke in macOS 15

If you screenshot Netflix or Spotify's playback window, you get a black rectangle where the video should be. Same thing when sharing your screen in Zoom, recording in OBS, even in Snipping Tool. Audio plays fine, content is gone.
This isn't codec protection or some OpenGL surface trick. It's one flag in one API that tells the window system: "this window should not appear in captured frames." The flag is public, documented, has been in Windows 10 since 2020, and is used by any app that needs to hide content from screenshots password managers, banking clients, 2FA tokens.
On macOS there used to be a symmetric equivalent, but in macOS 15 Sequoia Apple broke it against ScreenCaptureKit, and now the situation there is considerably messier. On Linux it depends on the display server. In browsers it works through a chain of platform APIs.
We worked all this out while building a desktop app for online interviews that needs this mechanism for a concrete reason: the hints window shouldn't appear in the interviewer's screen share. One paragraph about the product at the end. Everything else in this article is about what's under the hood.
Who captures the screen when you hit Share Screen
When Zoom asks for screen sharing access, it's not taking photos of your monitor. It subscribes to a frame stream from the operating system. Which API it uses matters, because they have different architectures and different behavior with protected windows.
On Windows there are three main paths.

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20h ago

JobPath - Real-time AI hints on interviews, invisible on screen

JobPath is a desktop app that helps you through technical interviews. An AI listens to the call and shows answers on your screen in real time. It stays invisible when you share your screen. Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and 13 other video tools including Russian ones. You also get 13,000+ practice questions, mock interviews with AI feedback, and cloud auto-applies on HH.ru with AI cover letters. Free tier, no card: 15 minutes of AI per interview, 15 auto-applies a day.