Are you sure that all bar raisers are as stringent as you are? Are they all as steeped in the Amazon culture as you are? Is a favour from these managers not worth anything? Sympathy for a guy given "unreasonable" goals he can't complete without more team members, questionable as they may be?

As your answer depends on the people in this adversarial hiring system standing their ground rather than finding common ground. Even in companies far less bruising than Amazon, there is reason to cheat.

And add that to the desperation for bodies and you have a massive reason to find some way to hack the system.