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I strongly suspect you're correct, but I like the thesis that this is hitting their recruitment hard and that could be the primary driver. The two go together
by hga 11y ago
I strongly suspect you're correct, but I like the thesis that this is hitting their recruitment hard and that could be the primary driver.
The two go together quite well, we hear that most people don't stay at Amazon for more than 2 years, so this could be an existential threat to their current model if they're no longer able to get enough new warm bodies to replace the attrition.
That it was sparked by the first big, really prominent MSM expose strongly suggests its a perception problem of some sort, that article was just more of the same to those of us on HN.
- rdtsc 11y agoThe article got a ridiculous amount of attention and in many way it conformed what I've been hearing about it from the word of mouth, it conforms with my interview experience there -- forgot I was coming that day, didn't call for almost 3 weeks after, forgot about me during lunch, a good number of interviewers seemed disgruntled and seemingly not happy. (Now, to be fair, I heard good things about it as well, and that is why I was initially going for an interview there, and it is a big company after all, but I am talking on average). In a way if they didn't have a problem, like let's say the same article came out regarding Google or Facebook, there would have been as much talk about it, and author and the news source would have been condemned and discredited, and it would have been blown over quicker. But in case of Amazon that article keeps coming back somehow.
- pinewurst 11y agoI think interview experiences could be the luck of the draw. My AWS interview was actually highly organized and pleasurable barring the emphasis on behavioral questions about Jeff's Commandments. The people were quite nice and professional and even admitted that some parts of Amazon were "grim".
- rdtsc 11y agoYeah could be. Well, at least I thought that about the first couple of screw ups. But by the last one, it was getting funny, I kept thinking "Nah, this is a cruel joke of some sort, it can't be that bad.." So it kind of my personal interaction with that company and somehow they managed to screw up so many things in a row, so it definitely left an impression.