What's the deal with Amazon hiring?
I've always heard how easy it is to get an interview at Amazon, also because of the fact that they're hiring hundreds of people all the time. Even then, I applied to like 15 positions (of which at least 5 very strong fit, including general New Grad role), got 3 referrals from repher.me (3!), never heard back, and always was rejected at resume review stage. I come from a top school. Wtf Amazon? Am I blacklisted for some unknown reason? I never engaged with them before. It's not a problem with my resume since I got contacted by Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple almost immediately after applying. Already have an offer from one of those now so don't really care about Amazon but was curious what could cause me being ignored so many times.
Hard to say. We get huge numbers of applicants. We also don’t take industry hires for SDE1 in many groups. We emphasize our college/intern pipeline. Maybe apply for L5 (SDE 2) positions if you have industry experience. I’m not a recruiter; this is just what I’ve seen
I don't have industry experience except for some internships (at a big name), I applied through the college pipeline as well and got rejected after a couple of days.
This is a blessing in disguise
I don't usually see Glassdoor employees here on Blind. While you are here, I want to ask why is Glassdoor so glitchy and unimproved since a long time? Why aren't you guys adding new features and letting other similar websites (like levels.fyi, blind, LC Premium, LinkedIn) win? Not trolling, asking seriously. Back in the days, I got Amazon because questions I saw on Glassdoor were repeated in the interview.
How did a handful of engineers at levels.fyi build a much better platform than Glassdoor? 🤔🤔🤔
Our recruiting system is messed up and probably one of the worst in the industry along with Microsoft. We lose a lot of good candidates because of this and the HR management knows about this already. A lot of our recruiting is outsourced too so that doesn't help.
To be honest, I had the opposite experience. My AWS onsite and it's decisions were out just 2 days after. No BS. Just straight to the point negotiation and transparency with L4 - L5 bands. The best I have had till now.
Yeah it's a hit or a miss. I personally had a bad experience when I was hired.
Have you tried 🍌 🍌 instead of only 🍌?
Nobody gives a shit about your top school
Literally all other companies did.
Yikes for them. Are we talking about just for contacting you (via recruiters who know fuck all about evaluating talent) or they actually considered it into the offer process rather than actual skill (that's a yikes)
Post your resume here if you want, even though you got your offer. Remove PII like school clubs and all that. There are lots of hiring managers crawling around blind that can give you an honest assessment. I can say that school doesn’t matter, but merit and general formatting of your resume does. You’re not insta-guaranteed an interview based off the education stamp on your resume
Amazon suuuuuucks at recruiting. I've tried to personally refer people before and it's always a crappy experience with recruiters being unresponsive. They even hold pizza lunches to invite SDEs to so they can get their friend's LinkedIn profiles. These same goddamn people don't respond when I send them solid recommendations on the fly.
Not usually in the business of defending recruiters, but to be fair I’ve seen external references abused pretty bad. As in, 100% unqualified but friends with some dude that works at Amazon trying to slip in. I’m suspicious of all of them when I see them. Thank PM’s (the biggest offenders) for this
That sucks. But why hold pizza lunches for references if they're just going to ignore me when I follow up, and not reach out?
Your top school doesn’t matter
U know in high school how u had haters? Amazon is one of them
🤣
Ok I'll report them to the teacher