The small print

Rules and regulations

These apply to every InterFiRank event. An individual event may add terms of its own, and states them on its page — but it cannot contradict anything here.

Published in advance, on purpose

The tie-break order and the treatment of joint prizes are published before registration closes for every event. Deciding either of them afterwards looks exactly like deciding them in someone's favour, however honestly it was done.

1. Entering

Public events are open to anyone with an InterviewFi account. Closed events are by invitation only and never appear publicly.
One person, one entry, one account. Entering an event twice under two accounts is grounds for disqualification from both.
Seats are allocated first come, first served, against a live count. Where a waitlist is enabled, freed seats are filled in waitlist order automatically until the exam starts.
You may withdraw at any time before the exam starts, and your seat returns to the pool. Once the exam has begun a sitting cannot be withdrawn.

2. The exam

Every entrant sits the identical paper at the same time. This is what makes ranks comparable, and it is why the entire paper is retired afterwards.
All questions are single-select with exactly four options.
Default marking is +1 for a correct answer, -0.5 for a wrong one and 0 for a blank. Each event publishes its own figures before registration closes.
The clock is the server's. Your device's clock has no effect on your deadline.
Late entry is allowed for a published number of minutes after the start, and a latecomer gets the time remaining on the event clock — not a fresh full duration. Everybody finishes together.

3. Integrity

Your camera runs live and visible for the whole exam. No video or audio is ever recorded; only periodic still images are stored, and they are deleted on the schedule published with the event.
Which signals can be observed depends on the environment, and each event lists exactly what applies. A signal that cannot be observed in a given environment is reported as not observable, never as clear.
An integrity signal is not a verdict. Signals inform a human review, and every prize-bearing sitting is reviewed by a person before anything is published.
Impersonation, a second device, a second person in the room, a virtual machine, a remote-desktop session or a screen recorder are all grounds for disqualification.

4. Ranking

Standings use competition ranking: three entrants tied at the top are all rank 1 and the next is rank 4.
Tie-breaks apply in this fixed order — higher score, then fewer wrong answers, then more correct on advanced and expert questions, then less total time spent answering, then the earlier valid submission.
Anything still indistinguishable after all five is a genuine joint rank.
Only sittings that completed and cleared integrity review appear in the standings.

5. Prizes

Prize tables are published before registration closes and are stated in the event's own terms.
Joint ranks take the full prize each, and the place below a tie is still paid. The cost of a tie is the platform's, not the entrant's.
A prize must be claimed within 30 days of results being published. An unclaimed prize expires.
Claiming requires identity verification. A prize is withheld where identity cannot be established, or where a sitting is later disqualified.

6. Publicity

Appearing on a public leaderboard is opt-in, granular, and collected separately from the consents required to sit the exam. It is never a condition of entry, eligibility or a prize.
If you do not opt in, your result still counts and your row still appears — anonymously. It is not removed, because removing it would misstate the size of the field everyone else was ranked against.
You can change your publicity settings at any time. Changing them applies going forward; it does not retroactively publish an event you entered privately.

7. Appeals

Appeals must be submitted within 7 days of results being published.
Grounds include a wrong answer key, an ambiguous question, a technical interruption, a submission failure, a false integrity flag, an identity issue, a scoring error, or a certificate or reward problem.
Where an appeal is upheld, the field is re-ranked and affected certificates are reissued. Where a re-rank changes a prize-bearing position, the prize follows the corrected standing.

8. Cancellation and voiding

An event cancelled before it runs is called off with a published reason, sent verbatim to every registrant. Nobody sat it, so nobody holds a rank from it.
An event that ran but is voided after a platform-wide technical failure is discarded: entrants keep no rank, no certificate is issued, and the event may be re-run as a new event.
Once results are published they are immutable. A specific certificate can be revoked; the published standings are not rewritten.

Frequently asked questions Privacy Terms

1. Entering

Public events are open to anyone with an InterviewFi account. Closed events are by invitation only and never appear publicly.

One person, one entry, one account. Entering an event twice under two accounts is grounds for disqualification from both.

Seats are allocated first come, first served, against a live count. Where a waitlist is enabled, freed seats are filled in waitlist order automatically until the exam starts.

You may withdraw at any time before the exam starts, and your seat returns to the pool. Once the exam has begun a sitting cannot be withdrawn.

2. The exam

Every entrant sits the identical paper at the same time. This is what makes ranks comparable, and it is why the entire paper is retired afterwards.

All questions are single-select with exactly four options.

Default marking is +1 for a correct answer, -0.5 for a wrong one and 0 for a blank. Each event publishes its own figures before registration closes.

The clock is the server's. Your device's clock has no effect on your deadline.

Late entry is allowed for a published number of minutes after the start, and a latecomer gets the time remaining on the event clock — not a fresh full duration. Everybody finishes together.

3. Integrity

Your camera runs live and visible for the whole exam. No video or audio is ever recorded; only periodic still images are stored, and they are deleted on the schedule published with the event.

Which signals can be observed depends on the environment, and each event lists exactly what applies. A signal that cannot be observed in a given environment is reported as not observable, never as clear.

An integrity signal is not a verdict. Signals inform a human review, and every prize-bearing sitting is reviewed by a person before anything is published.

Impersonation, a second device, a second person in the room, a virtual machine, a remote-desktop session or a screen recorder are all grounds for disqualification.

4. Ranking

Standings use competition ranking: three entrants tied at the top are all rank 1 and the next is rank 4.

Tie-breaks apply in this fixed order — higher score, then fewer wrong answers, then more correct on advanced and expert questions, then less total time spent answering, then the earlier valid submission.

Anything still indistinguishable after all five is a genuine joint rank.

Only sittings that completed and cleared integrity review appear in the standings.

5. Prizes

Prize tables are published before registration closes and are stated in the event's own terms.

Joint ranks take the full prize each, and the place below a tie is still paid. The cost of a tie is the platform's, not the entrant's.

A prize must be claimed within 30 days of results being published. An unclaimed prize expires.

Claiming requires identity verification. A prize is withheld where identity cannot be established, or where a sitting is later disqualified.

6. Publicity

Appearing on a public leaderboard is opt-in, granular, and collected separately from the consents required to sit the exam. It is never a condition of entry, eligibility or a prize.

If you do not opt in, your result still counts and your row still appears — anonymously. It is not removed, because removing it would misstate the size of the field everyone else was ranked against.

You can change your publicity settings at any time. Changing them applies going forward; it does not retroactively publish an event you entered privately.

7. Appeals

Appeals must be submitted within 7 days of results being published.

Grounds include a wrong answer key, an ambiguous question, a technical interruption, a submission failure, a false integrity flag, an identity issue, a scoring error, or a certificate or reward problem.

Where an appeal is upheld, the field is re-ranked and affected certificates are reissued. Where a re-rank changes a prize-bearing position, the prize follows the corrected standing.

8. Cancellation and voiding

An event cancelled before it runs is called off with a published reason, sent verbatim to every registrant. Nobody sat it, so nobody holds a rank from it.

An event that ran but is voided after a platform-wide technical failure is discarded: entrants keep no rank, no certificate is issued, and the event may be re-run as a new event.

Once results are published they are immutable. A specific certificate can be revoked; the published standings are not rewritten.