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Reached to My Phone during Hackerrank OA

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Hey everyone, I want to confess I reached to my phone in HackerRank OA. I got an OA recently, and it was sooo difficult. I usually can kill Leetcode Medium questions, and can figure out some Hard ques

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Hey everyone, I want to confess I reached to my phone in HackerRank OA. I got an OA recently, and it was sooo difficult. I usually can kill Leetcode Medium questions, and can figure out some Hard questions. But this one, I only got 50% passed for first question, and no idea for the second question. I was so frustrated and desperate, so I reached to my phone and wanted to search with AI. However, when I held my phone, my consciousness told me it was not right. So I gave it up finally. Yet, I'm wondering if HackerRank can capture my actions and identify my behavior as cheating. Ofc, I cannot deny I have the idea of cheating, you can laugh at me and say I deserve that. Yet, I didn't commit it for God's sake (otherwise the results would not be so bad). As up to now, I haven't gotten any rejection letter yet. Should I reach out to the recruiter for an update? Or should I swallow it? And, may I know if I was marked as cheating by any chance? This is one of my dream companies, and I still want to try it after one year. Thank you for your time. I'm open to any critique and would appreciate your suggestions.
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