Do Amazon SDMs get pipped if they can't meet hiring targets?

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Sep 16, 2021 7 Comments

Wondering why Amazon SDMs are sending so many messages for open positions.

Do they get pipped if they don't meet hiring targets? Or are they just looking for hire-to-fire scapegoats so that they don't lose their current engineers.

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  • SDMs get piped when their team is not delivering on their objectives, and it’s kind of hard to deliver when you have a bunch of open roles to fill
    Sep 16, 2021 0
  • Amazon / Mgmt
    fahrenheit

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    it's getting hot in here 🌡🔥
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    external "hire to fire" is a myth, fight me. hiring managers have only very indirect control of whom they hire, they would have to basically conspire with a bar raiser and BRs are normally selected from a pool and assigned by recruiters, so they would have to conspire with a BR and recruiter, in practice. and even then, hiring takes so fucking long that there's NO reason to intentionally hire to fire, in this talent shortage it's better to take what you can get and try to use it to deliver. the fact is that a LOT of teams just fucking suck at onboarding people, and a LOT of candidates slip by interviews by preparing and LCing and then actually suck at the job. nobody wants to spend the effort of hiring intentionally someone with no chance to succeed.

    SDMs are desperate to hire because we can't get shit done with unfilled headcount and we're not filling headcount because everybody knows amazon is a horrible employer and we don't pay people enough to put up with our bullshit.
    Sep 16, 2021 4
  • Siemens
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    Amazon managers will hire their son/son-in-law just to fire them
    Sep 16, 2021 0