I recently went through the Amazon AWS hiring process for an L6 non-technical position. The feedback I received was that everyone was so impressed with me and excited to have me join the team. I received an offer and started the negotiation process. I received an initial offer email from the recruiter and then scheduled a call to go over the offer. I spoke to the recruiter for less than 20 minutes, talking about my value, discussing the TC and I asked a few other questions about travel and general HR questions. I have 20 years experience so I've negotiated before. I expressed gratitude for the offer and was not demanding or unprofessional at all, just normal conversation. She said she was going to talk to the hiring manager to see what they could do to increase the offer. I got a call two days later that the offer was rescinded with no reason given. I'm a woman, I have no idea if that had anything to do with it but it's the strangest thing I have ever experienced. Offer rescinded for trying to negotiate and asking normal HR questions? I'm sure I dogged a bullet, but is this normal? I find this whole situation so bizarre, I can't even wrap my brain around it. As a future employee, I thought HR was there to make me feel comfortable about my decision and help me through the hiring process. Guess that is not how it works at Amazon.
Sorry to read about this
Yeah... Challenging authority never goes unpunished... Stupid...
I think one should only negotiate when you have multiple offers
Negotiation is a normal part of hiring. Women in particular are compensated less due to not negotiating as aggressively as men. This is really unfortunate behavior that Amazon has exhibited.
Yeah... Kind of f'd up that they just we're like.... Good talk... Goodbye...
Super shitty
OP maybe you should respectfully ask the recruiter for a conversation and perhaps ask if you could speak to the Hiring Manager
I did ask and she said the decision was final. I was trying to wrap my head around it and was pretty much shocked. I know they didn't have any other candidates because they essentially told me they had been looking for this particular position for almost a year.
How much did they offer you?
That’s sad
My experience with AWS recruiters has been aweful as well. Feels like they are the worst in all of tier 1-3 companies I had worked with
“talking about my value” - your problem right here, a little narcissistic. Plus, this is Amazon, employees have no value. (The real reason is most likely: they had other candidates lined up, and they decided on one while you were enjoying negotiations and before you are done with it.)
Yea, you don’t need to mention the value etc. Just tell them what you expect in terms of TC and let your interview performance/resume determine the value.
Amazon is notorious for not having a very good work environment . You might have caught this particular hiring manager on a bad day . Maybe the group shit down z No telling what happened. It does look like it had to do with your negotiating, but you cannot be certain.
Really unfortunate. My guess is that they might have had multiple candidates and they went with somebody else who agreed to go for a lower TC. It’s indeed very petty. Other alternative is that the recruiter portrayed the communication with you in a bad light