What's going on at Amazon? Hiring spike (SWE)
May 26, 2021
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I've been getting inundated with amazon recruiters lately. Used to be maybe once or twice a year but I'm seeing sometimes 2 different ones in same week (I thought they're only allowed to have one active recruiter per candidate at a time). Today I even got a cold call from an Amazon recruiter.
So what's going on?
Massive expansion? Too many people pipped and need backfill? Too many people moving to other companies due to remote work?
#amazon #hiring #swe
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If you have internal turnover goals you need more people you can fire right away again.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-managers-performance-reviews-hire-to-fire-internal-turnover-goal-2021-5
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No one actually works. All about visibility.
Low hiring bar. Less motivation as people just do the assigned job.
TPM converting into SDM. Don't have proper vision.
I was appalled when our director said out loud that because of the pandemic layoffs we could hire L6+ cheaper and closed all L4 and L5 reqs. Of course that was not the case and we still have backlog of open positions unable to fill.