One person's cheating-in-an-interview is another person's giving-the-gatekeeper-the-answer-they-want. Your manager wants you to have a second laptop open when

One person's cheating-in-an-interview is another person's giving-the-gatekeeper-the-answer-they-want. Your manager wants you to have a second laptop open when they ask you for information. The goal of interviews is to determine if the candidate has useful skills. Integrity is determined by a background check and the bar is typically low and subject to removal for-the-right-candidate. In the end, people fetishizing integrity to their own detriment are a risk to people further up the org-chart who approach the business more pragmatically. Business ethics are utilitarian not deontological and using a laptop to pass an interview is not contrary to a categorical imperative. It's just business. People at the top of the org chart want to work with people like them. People who treat passing the interview as the job at hand and are able to succeed.