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Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience by fattire on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @09:50PM (#13076793)
I understand that the goal is to stop cheaters. That's an admirable goal, and a perfectly legit one. However it's the completely wrong way to do it and sends a very strong message to anyone applying that "our company, for any reason that serves our interest, expect you to be compliant, to give up your personal privacy, and to submit to our invasive internal processes whenever we feel it's necessary. Expect more."

Asking this of you, before you're even working for them is presumptive and not a good sign that this is a place you're going to want to be. It's basically a huge flashing "We Fuck Our Employees!" right there on your job application.

Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience by gaius on Thursday December 01, 2016 @03:21AM (#13078020)
submit to our invasive internal processes whenever we feel it's necessary

This is also the company that requires warehouse workers to queue for bag searches on unpaid time.

Re:Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience by Tempest1981 on Thursday December 01, 2016 @01:52AM (#13077695)
It's probably the cheapest and most efficient way to screen candidates, and ensure accuracy. Not disagreeing with you -- just saying that their primary goal is probably efficiency (no surprise).