On: 'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience

[pidg]

You could just run the test software from inside a VM - with all those helpful 'written materials' on your real desktop.

[DuskStar → pidg]

They check to make sure you aren't running within a VM, unfortunately.

[Avery3R → DuskStar]

Malware checks for VMs too, there are documented ways to trick things into thinking that they're running on bare metal.

[andai → Avery3R]

Judging by the article and the comments, that sounds to me like more effort than Amazon is worth.