Above post is inaccurate. A reject now is normally a 24 month cooldown by bar raiser standard protocol. Particularly on a leadership principle fail. If you just fail on technical competencies and are early career you are likely to be marked as recycle which means you are eligible for other teams and roles at any time. Edit: per below thread, this may be standard practice in only certain geographic locales or orgs and not company-wide.
It’s actually not inaccurate. I am a recruiting leader at Amazon and have been for a long time, I know how our process works. Again, there is no official policy, it’s all up to the feedback and how strict a bar raiser wants to be on the recycle or not decision.
Not true Northman
Depends on if it was a hard rejection (can reapply in 2 years) or a soft recycle (recruiter will probably reach out in 6 months). Recruiters can’t give feedback so you don’t know which one you were. Neither of these are official policies afaik, but this is the general practice I have seen.
I was told they would reach out to me again in 6 months but I wanted to apply again and try to get in a loop with a different org
Recruiter is incentivized to get you in his or her req, and they don’t typically like working with candidates who already have been in touch with a recruiter, so you are going to have to push hard to get this done.
So am I basically screwed
Not screwed. Just don’t back down when they push back on you. Likely what will happen is they will set up a split loop with engineers from both orgs and you will have a choice of team if you get the offer. I’d specifically ask for a split loop with the team you want.
So should I reach out to a different org and try to see if I can get in a loop there?
I would recommend not to. Anybody within Amazon or any of its sub, uses same hiring tool and they will read your feedback history. If you come back too soon, even for small things you will end up not being hired and then it continues.
Nothing official, it’s more about the feedback from your interviews than anything. If you were close or a better for for a different role another team could pick you up and interview the next day if they wanted
How does someone go about getting that info?