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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, 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.

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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...

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

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.

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

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.

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

That still requires a Win7 license.

No, just a Win7 installation

No virtualization allowed if they detect it. ProctorU really isn't prepared to be running this stuff for Amazon.

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