Liveweek.
A desktop OS in the browser where candidates live a simulated first week - real messages, meetings, fires. A hidden evaluator scores how they think, not what they claim.
30 SECONDS INSIDE THE SIMULATION - FROM THE LAUNCH FILM, RENDERED IN CODE
Resumes don't show how someone works under a real week's pressure. Interviews reward performance; work reveals judgment. So the interview became a week of work.
REAL SIM SCREENS · THE DESKTOP MID-FIRE · THE SQL ENGINE RUNNING · THE LOGIN
A desktop OS in the browser - inbox, chat, meetings, fires - where a candidate lives a fictional first week on the job. A hidden evaluator scores judgment, prioritization and written thinking as they work, not as they interview.
What changed: 173 candidates screened by a week of work instead of a stack of resumes - and the hire came from the simulation.
SOURCE: Hiring panel · July 2026
Pick a moment. This is what the system does with it - every step a deliberate call, none of it visible from the outside.
One prompt did produce a version of this - and it is the reason the real one exists.
- The one-shot was built, and rejected. The first pass was a single HTML file with invented app interfaces. It read as a toy, and a toy cannot measure how someone works. That rejection is the fork below.
- The realism came from a real dump. The week's content was mined from actual office conversations, then fictionalized by design - role names only, invented numbers, a stand-in product. No prompt contains that raw material.
- The scoring is an accreted rubric. Cold test runs by real people kept exposing false negatives - the diligent candidate who pulled a number a day early, the banter nobody should be penalized for skimming. Every guard in the engine cites the run that broke it.
- The data layer was rebuilt on a taste call. Canned dashboard answers were replaced with a hand-written SQL interpreter over a seeded warehouse, purely because canned numbers felt fake. One prompt does not make that call.
Two days in, the first playable version comes back: a single HTML file with invented app interfaces - a WhatsApp that does not look like WhatsApp, a Discord with a made-up game icon.
Its cheaper, plausible default: approximate the apps, invent the icons, ship a stylized demo of an office instead of an office.
the UI of the apps should reflect real UI more accurately - whatsapp does not look like how you coded it. [...] This feels like a toy demo - nothing like a real website - feels really half baked really - dissapointed. [...] this is not a brand new concept - so let us not re-invent the wheel, let us use the current wheel and build on it
That message is why every app in the sim is a pixel-faithful clone with the real brand hexes - and why the whole desktop stands on a proven open-source desktop-OS pattern instead of an invented one.
The realism IS the test - you can only measure how someone works if the tools work like the real ones.