Amazon hiring like crazy.

Amazon / Ops
tsgt

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tsgt
Aug 24, 2019 68 Comments

Why is amazon hiring people like crazy?
I have an intern return offer and many of my classmates also got the offer.
Honestly many of them don't deserve it and I wouldn't even want to make them my project partner. I am thinking of rejecting the offer seeing quality of hiring.

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  • amazon is the new high paying infosys
    Aug 24, 2019 19
    • Oracle / R&D
      TLead

      Go to company page Oracle R&D

      TLead
      Again, my understanding is that metrics on blind are skewed. People complain about Amazon’s WLB and praise MS for it’s great WLB.

      I am making 200k as ML Engineer at Oracle and work 25 hours a week. Should I then say MS has s*** WLB? Not really. It depends on individual perspectives.

      Yes, Amazon has PIP culture, FB has it. Out of 100 people that gets put on PIP, not all 100 have bad relationship with managers. Many of them do not perform or have other priorities in life, which makes them unable to put, say on an average 50 hours per week at Amazon alone.

      Remember those who do not perform well definitely have a bad relationship with their manager, which is why they are put on PIP. Those people just project their managers as bad managers here on blind. While I say that, there may actually be some genuine cases of people being nice but yet put on PIP. But few.

      That’s not just true with Amazon but also with FB, Apple, Google and Netflix. I know my friend at Netflix who is making 550k TC that mentioned they have zero tolerance. It is just that Netflix has relatively fewer employees than Amazon and which is why we do not hear many things. All these companies have lesser number of employees when compared with Amazon.

      So if work is interesting at Amazon, go for it. Again, even MS has better products. Azure is killing it. But AWS still has the edge. Hololens is by far the best AR kit I have experienced. Would love to work on it. But Skype? I see it isn’t doing well and MS may kill it in future because it isn’t worth when compared against it’s competitors. Teams is nice, takes a while to get more market share.

      While Amazon and MS employees s*** talk about each other, you guys do realize that there’s a partnership between Alexa and Cortana right? MS has good and bad products. Amazon has good and bad products.

      If you are in Amazon retail, learn something and move to AWS or Alexa or other departments you like. Same goes for MS.

      PS: if you need specifics about my offer I could give more details. But based on my factual experience, MS has lower standards in terms of pay and interviews. Saying that some teams at MS have really high standards. It is team dependent at the end of the day, be it at Google as well.
      Aug 24, 2019
    • Amazon
      simplydude

      Go to company page Amazon

      simplydude
      TLead really good post! I fully agree with you. On pip, fb, netflix, amazon have it. Majority of pips I heard were more or less right. People didn’t work hard or didn’t perform their tasks well. I heard only one case where somebody was dev listed even though that sde was good. However that sde had bad relationship with manager and in general was difficult person. Once they let go, of course they will claim that company is bad, etc.
      Aug 24, 2019
  • Amazon
    Wd9s82

    Go to company page Amazon

    Wd9s82
    We hire most of our L4s from internships. Not all of them join. The L4 bar is very low, as long as you are not a douchebag during your internship are hired. We are not like Google or Facebook who will ask you extraordinarily difficult stuff in interviews all to work on simple data parsing or easy feature changes. We hire engineers who can get stuff done, and that doesn't need a high bar. We believe that quality of people improves only with experience and Amazon gives every decent person that chance.
    So no, high quality doesnt imply they are going to get work done, and low quality doesn't imply they won't.
    Aug 24, 2019 2
  • Fitbit
    fitty

    Go to company page Fitbit

    fitty
    Its based on churn, 80% wont last over 2 years
    Aug 24, 2019 6
  • New / R&D
    LangeSohne

    New R&D

    LangeSohne
    Why don't they deserve it?
    Aug 24, 2019 5
    • Uber / Eng
      sporg

      Go to company page Uber Eng

      sporg
      What do you think they are missing? What is is that makes them unworthy for FAANG in your mind, but where Amazon doesn’t seem to mind?
      Aug 24, 2019
    • Oracle
      kJ37vg

      Go to company page Oracle

      kJ37vg
      You have very low opinion about others. Why do you deserve it? Why do you have such high opinion about yourself?

      How do you know others don’t think low about you too?
      Aug 24, 2019
  • Intel
    Spikiera

    Go to company page Intel

    Spikiera
    You sound like a great guy to be around
    Aug 24, 2019 0