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Thankfully, I would fail this interview the moment they require me to own a Windows or OS X license. > ProctorU currently supports Windows Vista, Windows 7, Wi

by q3k 10y ago

Thankfully, I would fail this interview the moment they require me to own a Windows or OS X license. > ProctorU currently supports Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Mac OS X 10.4 or newer version of those systems. At this time, ProctorU does not support any Linux operating systems such as Chrome OS, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. edit: but I'd like to see them muck around with my linux.git .config to make sure I'm not cheating.

joncp 10y ago
Ironic, since so much of Amazon's infrastructure runs on Linux.
danjoc 10y ago
Underrated post :) This was the first thing I checked too. I run GNU/Linux. My internal web cam has never worked.
drivingmenuts 10y ago
They'd lose me the moment they wanted full access to my system. My computer, my rules. You want to take control, mail me a computer and take control of that.
j1vms 10y ago
That's why you put Win7 in a VM (e.g. VirtualBox) and let them figure out the rest.
- q3k 10y ago
  That still requires a Win7 license.
  - dexterdog 10y ago
    No, just a Win7 installation
- Bartweiss 10y ago
  No virtualization allowed if they detect it. ProctorU really isn't prepared to be running this stuff for Amazon.
Bartweiss 10y ago
Wow, seriously? I had to shoot down a ProctorU interview at one point because I had some hardware and internet stability issues that were going to scuttle the thing (and I couldn't go to a library or anything in light of all these rules). But it didn't even occur to me that Amazon might be using an interview service that can't handle Linux. One of the best programmers I knew in school was exclusively on Debian, and spent a semester on a cheap Arch machine when his main laptop died. An interview process that completely excludes him is a jaw-droppingly bad one...
amlozano 10y ago
This was a huge problem for me at Gatech's online master of computer science program (omscs). I ended up having a small windows partition just to take the exams. Also note windows 10 isn't explicitly on that list. There were problems early on.

by q3k 10y ago

joncp 10y ago

Ironic, since so much of Amazon's infrastructure runs on Linux.

danjoc 10y ago

Underrated post :) This was the first thing I checked too. I run GNU/Linux. My internal web cam has never worked.

drivingmenuts 10y ago

They'd lose me the moment they wanted full access to my system. My computer, my rules. You want to take control, mail me a computer and take control of that.

j1vms 10y ago

That's why you put Win7 in a VM (e.g. VirtualBox) and let them figure out the rest.

q3k 10y ago
That still requires a Win7 license.
- dexterdog 10y ago
  No, just a Win7 installation
Bartweiss 10y ago
No virtualization allowed if they detect it. ProctorU really isn't prepared to be running this stuff for Amazon.

Bartweiss 10y ago

Wow, seriously? I had to shoot down a ProctorU interview at one point because I had some hardware and internet stability issues that were going to scuttle the thing (and I couldn't go to a library or anything in light of all these rules). But it didn't even occur to me that Amazon might be using an interview service that can't handle Linux. One of the best programmers I knew in school was exclusively on Debian, and spent a semester on a cheap Arch machine when his main laptop died. An interview process that completely excludes him is a jaw-droppingly bad one...

amlozano 10y ago

This was a huge problem for me at Gatech's online master of computer science program (omscs). I ended up having a small windows partition just to take the exams. Also note windows 10 isn't explicitly on that list. There were problems early on.