Interview Coder
product on 5 shows · 6 statements across 4 episodes · said 47 times in 6 episodes since 2025
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Roy Lee: I recorded myself using Interview Coder during an Amazon interview
“I record myself using it on Amazon.”
Roy Lee: Cluely scaled from zero to $5M ARR in three months
“Interview Coder launches February first, and right now it's, like, hovering at around two millier R. Cluey launches April twenty-th, and right now it's up in, like, a little over two months. Probably, like, almost three months now, and Cluey has gone from zero…”
Lee: Predecessor tool Interview Coder reached 250 million impressions
“What we realized after we got about, like, two hundred fifty million impressions on the whole scenario is, like, wow, we just got so many eyeballs on this thing”
Lee was expelled from Columbia and blacklisted by Amazon over InterviewCoder
“And after a certain point, I mean, I built this cheating tool. I get kicked out of school. I get blacklists from Amazon.”
InterviewCoder hit $3M ARR before hiring any employees
“Like, InterviewCoder, before we hired anyone, hit, like, three mil ARR, and then and then we started hiring people.”
Columbia suspended Roy Lee for a year after his Amazon interview stunt
“Amazon reported me to Columbia. Amazon is mad. Columbia is mad. And this ends up being a spat that I sort of publicize on my Twitter. It becomes this big spectacle and I eventually get kicked out of Columbia or suspended for a year. And I'm blacklisted from mo…”