Experience report that this happens when you get an interview at Amazon

ByQuinn Dombrowski

A reporter who worked while hiding his identity at Amazon warehouse talks about "harsh working environment"Amazon has been criticized in many ways regarding employment and labor. An engineer who received an interview from Amazon twiceShivan Kaul SahibSaid that it was "a terrible experience" about Amazon interview, refused to continue interviewing on the way, feeling strongly about the privacy problem. If you are going to help people who are going to receive an interview by Amazon now or those who are currently receiving it, Sahib has released a personal experience story.

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◆ First Interview Exam: Internship
Sahib's first interview by Amazon was during internship. Several months after applying online application, I received an email with a link to two examinations. One of the tests is standard such as "Debug code"Off-by-one errorYaBoolean logicIt solves seven problems on errors in 24 minutes. And the second test concerns logical reasoning, solving 24 problems in 35 minutes.

After a while after taking the first exam, Sahib will notify you about the second online examinationProctorioIt received via via. In order to take the on-line exam, Sahib said that he installed the Google Chrome and Proctorio extensions, and received the test instructions with the anonymous mode set.

The contents of instructions received by Sahib are as follows.

During the exam, the following actions are restricted:

· Disconnection of Internet connection. Since the exam is automatically completed, please make sure that the current internet connection is stable during the exam
· The clipboard can not be used during the test. The copy & paste function can not be used, and those currently saved on the clipboard are deleted
· The test can not be started until the connection with the additional screen or monitor is cut off
· You can not open new tabs and windows during the exam
· You can not right click during the test
· Test contents can not be printed out

During the exam the following information is gathered:

·microphone
·webcam
·present location
· Clip board
Mouse position
Browser size
Browser tabs and windows
· Head movement
· Eye movements
Mouth movement
· Entire screen
· Visited website
· Other applications that are running
· Number of connected screens

As Sahib was uncomfortable to be able to gather information such as the current position, the software that is running, the number of browser tabs, at the time of receiving the above instructions, I will contact Amazon's Human Resources personnel and refuse to continue the exam did. And I suggested to Amazon by e-mail, "I would like to interview by other methods because this testing method may violate privacy," but Amazon said there was no reply.

◆ Second interview test
Mr. Sahib received Amazon's second interview exam when he applied for a software development engineer. Examination is a service to conduct test supervision onlineProctorUIt was done through. When Sahib first installed some software and was ready to take the exam, the exam director remotely placed Sahib's PC under supervision. At this time, Sahib saw nothing on the spot that the director took control of all of the PC, but he said, "The way people stop the software on the screen in front of others one after another, I feel a sense of terror. "

Next, the test director did check the room through the web camera. Sahib, who was told that "Please clean up the desk to see if you are not covering the tools that you will write during the exam," he said, "I will take the exam in bed." I replied to the director, "I understand, please do not hide the tools or peel off the sheets and show me it." Furthermore, "I can not use paper and pen, of course, the cell phone is behind you, please put it where I can see."

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In addition, after having received several instructions such as "Please show the environment of the room 360 degrees by hand with the notebook PC" "Please show the floor with the chair standing from the chair over there" The part started. In addition, it seems that a toilet time of 5 minutes was allowed between the test and the test.

After the exam, the interview was held. The interview was scheduled to be checked in the world of games imitating Amazon's workplace as the first part, how much interviewers can cooperate with the team in the actual workplace. However, the game did not start even after five minutes from the start time, and even though it took 20 minutes to tell the test director about that, the situation was not resolved. Sahib who was kept waiting for a total of one hour eventually failed to endure saying "I can not do anything without any paper or pen and just spend time," giving up the continuation of the exam. Although I was suggested to reorganize the schedule from the test director, I declined, I disconnected the Internet connection, turned off Wi-Fi, deleted the installed software, and set up the firewall the most firmly.

Mr. Sahib says, "Invasion of privacy" at the first interview, strict management at the second interview, and exam supervisor who can not proceed with work merely by obedience, Sahib is a real Amazon labor We point out that there may be something that overlaps the environment.