At least easier than, say, Google. Is this recent? What do you think is the reason? I am starting to feel like its no real accomplishment to get into Amazon anymore and they just hire anyone. I am not trying to be condescending or humble brag. I’ve just also read a lot of people on here say “just go to amazon then reapply to Google later” so it seems to be a common perception. Curious to hear the discussion.
Easy to get out. Turnover
I knew a guy with a 2.8 GPA in college (due to drugs) who now works at Amazon
Cuz they’re not afraid to boot your ass
Lot of people come in and lot of people go out especially new grads. Amazon has been recently hiring new grads with one test and phone screen. But they also get weeded out easily. No matter how they came in Amazon rewards if you are a high performer and pips you out if you aren’t, apparently they don’t care about prestige when they hand out the offers easily.
Sorry, what is pip?
Performance improvement plan
1) they’re growing like crazy 2) high churn
I would say the same, but I have a hard time thinking about one new thing they have done recently.
You dont have to have new things to grow like crazy.
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Fast hire, fast fire. Not much to lose by lowering the bar since they are willing to fire bad performers quickly. Also the top talent pool generally take other FAANG offers over Amazon because of Amazon's reputation of being the easiest FAANG and the way it treat its employees. So they necessarily have to lower the bar to fill their numerous headcount. Google on the other hand hardly ever fires and is highly desired. So they try to keep the bar really high assuming they're gonna keep and invest in each hire.
The biggest thing is that we also fire people if they don't perform because low performers can come from high pedigree and vice versa. Perf bonuses are also pretty common (lots of opportunities to go above and beyond). Places like FB have a similar policy but aren't growing their engineering department as fast as ours, as well as offering more TC than us.
So what's best scenario for perm bonuses? Isn't it all RSU and vests for 2 years?
It’s like Microsoft. If you know the hiring manager, you can get in even if you do poorly. I guess it is common at companies who underpay or exploit their employees.
This is blatantly incorrect. This only applies to msft.