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I am amazed at how far you tolerated it. This is probably how I would have handled it: > As preamble, the proctor made me download some software, one of which
by baddox 10y ago
I am amazed at how far you tolerated it. This is probably how I would have handled it:
> As preamble, the proctor made me download some software, one of which spun up a UI for chatting with the proctor and giving them access to my machine so they can take control of my entire computer, including mouse.
Nope. Goodbye.
- dom0 10y agoWell it's good that someone tolerated it; now I have another couple names for my job black list. Thanks! :) (Although I wouldn't work for Amazon anyway, but now I don't have to do any research if a company brings up "ProctorU").
- Karunamon 10y agoHoly cow.. I've got an Amazon SRE headhunter sitting in my inbox right now. I am sorely tempted to decline and send a link to this article as reason why.
- edoceo 10y agoPlease do
- mc32 10y agoI think that would be good feedback, if you're turning it down --hopefully it will incentivize them to change. If you're taking it, of course not.
- rublev 10y agoDo it.
- jensvdh 10y agoSame here. It was for lab126, I was excited about it until I read this article..
- euyyn 10y agoSome other commenter up there says he worked at lab126 and it's sane there.
- MrZongle2 10y agoSave the link, you'll use it again and again. I bit at an Amazon posting 5 years ago, but declined to do the Seattle interview when a local (and more attractive) position opened up. Despite repeatedly telling Amazon's headhunters that I'm not interested, I hear from them about every 6 months.
- this-dang-guy 10y agoYou have to really watch those interview red flags. They're super important. I had one right out of college where the office (on energy efficient lightning) looked like some cubicle version of hell. A person in the elevator on the way to the interview mouthed "run away" to me, and really creeped me out. I got the job, but literally couldn't even handle a full day in that cave-like godawful place.
- cmdrfred 10y agoI've got a server in my basement running VMware Workstation. That's how id approach it.
- leni536 10y agoI'm sure your VM doesn't have a webcam though. How do you prove that you are not cheating like this?
- cmdrfred 10y agoYou can pass a USB device to the Hypervisor with nomachine then pass it to the VM with VMware.
- maverick_iceman 10y agoYou're gonna do all that work just so that you can take an hour long interview for an Amazon internship?
- sigjuice 10y agoWhat work? It is just a VMWare knob.
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- Shivetya 10y agojust what are you to do if you don't have a webcam? go buy one?
- amlozano 10y agoYup. You can get a camera that is good enough with a built in mic for like $20 these days.
- cwmoo740 10y ago
- emehrkay 10y ago"Hold on a second (while I spin up this virtual machine to install this software on...)."
- Bedon292 10y agoI would probably have tolerated it for a bit longer than that (On an old laptop or something). Up until the 'Clean your desk'. Nope, Goodbye.
- dexterdog 10y agoThe clean your desk stuff is fine, but all of this should have been sent well ahead of the interview. Why they waste the time of two people to get ready for the interview is beyond me.
- Bedon292 10y agoYeah, I agree. Might have been willing to go through all that hassle. IF they had warned ahead of time the restrictions it might have been acceptable. I would pick another location, like the dining room or something, instead of having to 'clean' the desk. I tend to have an organized mess on my desk, and if I have to 'clean' it will drive me nuts for weeks. But, without heads up that is such a waste of time for everyone involved its crazy. And that's why it was the turning point for me.
- SilasX 10y agoIt gets worse -- when he wanted to leave the interview, the proctor couldn't disconnect those systems and kept making him wait until he finally gave up, cut off the call, and tried to purge it all himself. That the electronic equivalent of preventing someone from leaving the building.
- pawelkomarnicki 10y agoHow else they would buy themselves the time to steal all his porn? ;-)
- monksy 10y agoThat's when you should just start taking off your clothes just to make sure you're in even more compliance. (Might be writing on clothes)
- jedimastert 10y agoMy thoughts exactly. If I was reeeeally invested in getting that job, I would have found another laptop lying around, and powerwashed it after I was done.