To start with, it's not a full freeze. Some teams are hiring, including mine. But every other team in our org is completely frozen. We've had 6 open backfill headcount in our team since March that we couldn't find candidates for, and in the past 2 weeks they're all getting filled now from rehomed candidates - those who have passed the interview but don't have an open position to go to. As I understand, this affects every org in the company. There are teams here and there who are still hiring, but overall there is a freeze happening in earnest. I assume a full company freeze is going to be made official before the end of the year once OP1 planning completes. #amazon
True, a huge chunk of job openings will be closed out today and final chunk Oct 3rd noon PDT.
why that specific date? q4 lock in?
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Amazon recruiters are reaching out to folks who passed interviews in the past but didn’t accept the offer. Why? If freeze is real, why are they reviving old offers?
I have no idea. I'm actually in that position with Google right now. They let me go through the entire hiring process during their publicly announced freeze and I am still waiting. Their recruiters are still going too. I would guess that even companies in a freeze still want to keep their pipeline going?
My guess is that hiring managers are desperate to fill open positions because economy may be in toilet but the amount of work and projects are still the same. These managers absolutely need people right now to stay on track. Maybe company is lenient towards hiring those who already had offers in the past. But strictly no hiring new candidates.
What's your team or org?
I passed the loop for Amazon Physical Stores team but was told the org was in freeze and the role was closed. I started hitting up other recruiters on linkedin and was able to get placed on a team in Ads. Started last week
Hey could you tell us how you approached other recruiters? Do you know them beforehand? If not, how do you find these people. Also, what's the message you sent them? Cold open style?
I cleared the loop for a DS role a month ago and still waiting. No offers yet. :(
Hi, Can I DM you? I have an interview coming up but have no insights into interview process- # of stages, topics covered etc.
Sure
You need to tell this to tge recriiters.
This is real, one of my friend middle of interview got notfied that even if he gives interview now, he wont get getting extended offer untill January.
Was he interviewed in the US?
Yes
Just got off a call from recruiter and he said the team I matched with is frozen. He said ads and prime are still hiring.
There were openings before. Then they got filled. Hence there’s no longer open position. Am I reading this right? If so, how is this a freeze?
Some orgs are completely frozen. So it's not company wide
Same here. Recruiter informed me that join date will be in January 2023. After I lamented for few minutes. She informed me that she will do an exception and squeeze me in.
Yet another attempt to lure people into accepting offers. Why godamn whyy??
OP call out is true...
What is OP in this context?