Hey Blind. It seems that Amazon is not hiring aggressively this year, at least for the new grad positions. Many fellow classmates received rejection emails today. Given that Amazon usually hires a lot, rejecting these many applications at once seems absurd. Is amazon shifting to a more rigorous interviewing process? Or it is just because of COVID we will be hiring less this time? Or is it an indicator to upcoming increased pip. https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/840740/Amazon-New-grad-2021-reject TC : 157K ( Intern Return Offer - Seattle) School - T50
This is a little scary, because it applies for a lot other companies as well. I don’t even think Google and Facebook are hiring new grads this year. Thank god I have an intern return offer as well seems tough trying to land one in this climate
Seems weird, since they claim they have 33,000 open positions and are having a big hiring fair this month.
For non new grad hiring a lot
Which university ?
One of the Top 50 CS Schools. Until last year at least 20 used to be hired from Amazon.
20? Those are rookie numbers :P
Ok. I'm pretty sure that they are hiring hard for the next year new grads. Also, if you haven't seen blind - it's 3OAs and 1 fake/behavioral onsite. That's the new grad pipeline for the most part. Hire fast. I'm also sure that we are taking new grads since my team just made a few offers to new grads to start next year - one who will graduate this December and one in May. We have open headcount for 5-8 more people in my team alone. Our department has headcount open for 100+ sdes of varying levels - mostly sde1s. I'd like to point out that the student programs suck and that you are better off going to each department directly to apply. It'll be much harder since there are phone screens and on-sites with LC hards, but you get to negotiate your TC and it's higher than the amazon student program non negotiable one. Edit: AWSs headcount is over 1000 - it's very likely not going to disappear overnight and close all 1000 and that's not even including Virginia.
I'd also like to point out that Google and FB are just as random when they do interviews. The leetcode thread is hating on something that is known to have no reason from the beginning - get all the questions correct and get rejected (common at Google like no original solution or attempt). Maybe there are hidden cases further you need to pass ( I very much doubt this but I'm not in recruiting so ...). Maybe they were all mistakenly sent. I had referrals that I sent/refered the moment the app came out - literally the minute it came out on July 31 at midnight. They haven't gotten anything yet - no OA, zilch. Again I doubt this but that's also a possibility.
many people got intern to Full time offer. Even I got that. I suspect that the rejection e-mail might be because of a mistake, but again I know at least 20 who got rejected. One dude had FB and Goldman on CV, still got a resume reject. I am assuming that Amazon might be moving ahead with industry hires, since it is easier to coach them than new grads? Given the COVID situation, new grads might not be able to catch up fast?
Do you need a visa to work?
Wonder why amzn would slow down, their business been up across the whole company
Yup, everyone expected that new grad hiring will go brrrrrrrr
I got rejected from Amazon New Grad a while back. Would have made double what I'm making now. Got to the final interview stage and everything. Some people got extremely lucky. They would get two easy algorithm problems for the online assessment and if they solved them both, had a 30 minute interview where they explained their answers. I got one of the more involved problems... didn't get it done and had to have a three panel interview after that. Very disappointed. The questions were leaked, any idiot could solve them if they had enough time to study them all, but alas, I skipped over the one I actually got on the assessment. Now I'm here.. at a government contractor..... sigh........
From a people management standpoint, it might make sense. New grad hires can be high touch in terms of training and mentoring/monitoring. It's really hard to do since the companies are remote for the next year or so.
But the younger generation has a Ph.D in remote communication, more so than the millennials.
It's been obvious since May that new grad hiring is frozen at nearly all companies. Nothing new.
Not really true, in past few months I've had new grad interviews at Robinhood , uber, tiktok, databricks, mongodb, apple, few others. Even if Google and fb are closed, Microsoft and amazon new grad apps are also open
Uber isn't hiring new grad SWE's. I don't recall them ever opening up positions on their website