Wassup with Amazon hiring?

Juniper
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Jan 8, 2020 45 Comments

Just came to know that Amazon hired 80 interns just from a university like UTD. Is this the next level of mass hiring?
Also, for new grad full time, they are giving away offers after a couple of phone interviews. In the phone interview they ask the same question they asked for online assessment. Why has the bar gone so low? It means you are hiring any random guy having a degree. How do you verify if someone can even code a single line with this hiring methology?

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  • Yahoo
    techleet

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    techleet
    "Hire and develop the best" my ass
    Jan 8, 2020 5
    • Amazon / Eng
      newdecade

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      newdecade
      oh man where do you work that's so innovative and legendary
      Jan 8, 2020
    • Google
      swinglyf

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      swinglyf
      Just to cut amazon and yahoo sniping at each other short:

      Yahoo: have you considered that you’re misreading the principle? You’re assuming ( I think) that the principle says hire the best and develop them. But what if it’s hire (an implicit “everyone”) and only develop the best, and (implicit) fire the rest?
      Jan 8, 2020
  • New
    scheme

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    Started blind to get some break from work. Now, I work to get some break from blind.
    scheme
    Hire at scale. PIP at scale. Amazon does everything at scale.
    Jan 8, 2020 0
  • Amazon / Eng
    newdecade

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    newdecade
    What kind of work experience are you going to expect a new grad to have lol? Just coming from x fancy university doesn't tell you shit about them other than maybe their parents were wealthy. you can ask basic LC but they're not going to know much system design from work experience, new grad bar shouldn't be incredibly high, see how well they can learn on the job because the ask for entry level devs isn't too high

    I'm an industry hire so didn't join as a new grad
    Jan 8, 2020 6
  • Amazon
    dQJq51

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    dQJq51
    There is data to back it up that new grad hired this way performs the same with normal bar. Who doesnt perform will be piped out fast anyway
    Jan 8, 2020 0
  • ClubCorp
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    ClubCorp

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    Where have you been? This has been discussed to death.

    Amazon mass hires new grads with their shortlist/shortcut interviews. Reason is its easier for them to mass hire and mass fire when most of them wont cut it for long term and the work they need to do has been done by them already. Rinse and repeat. Burn and churn.

    This doesnt happen at L5/6+ experienced hires. So you can easily put together why.
    Jan 8, 2020 4