Has it become easier to get in to Amazon?? Is their quality coming down?
They’ve grown a lot and their strategy has never been focused on employee retention. With average time at the company <2 years and 30(?)k engineers you can imagine how much they need to hire every year to just compensate for the attrition. As to the bar, it’s highly inconsistent across different orgs since the process is not centralized.
Is it really < 2 years?
Google's is also surprisingly low. A lot of people leave Amazon asap of course, or get managed out, but the whole industry encourages you to job hop.
Amazon has lowered it's standards significantly. These days, it's like a safe bet in an interview spree. And those silly ass behavioral interviews aren't doing Amazon's reputation any good either.
was it ever up? always been easy
Burn and churn.
That’s why they make more money.
Amazon hires a lot because they offer a bunch of useful stuff, which contributes to growth, and it mostly sucks to work there so many people quit.
This forum has saved me from Amazon. Thought about it but too many horror stories here from employees.
I've seen great engineers get turned down and complete fools get hired at Amazon. It's not like these are one-offs either, it seems to be the rule not the exception. We have an obsession with hiring idiots.
Probably they have overstock of bananas. Need some feeders.
Turnover rate