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As a hiring manager at Amazon, I'm super excited to talk to candidates. A new job is, after all, an incredibly important life decision on the same level as get
by felixgallo 10y ago
As a hiring manager at Amazon, I'm super excited to talk to candidates. A new job is, after all, an incredibly important life decision on the same level as getting married or buying a house. And as a manager, making sure I hire the right people to build the kind of diverse, respectful, collaborative, representative, professional, mentoring, balanced and focused team that I can is the most important thing I can do on a daily basis.
In fact, I spend a non-trivial amount of my day personally looking for, and reaching out to, prospective candidates, with no recruiter involved.
With that in mind, Amazon recruits so widely that I couldn't possibly talk to every prospect; there just aren't enough hours in the day. So I think it's important to have recruiters doing the basic screens, and am delighted to take over from there.
Anyone who wants a job at one of the big companies should understand that there's going to be some bureaucracy on the intake side just because the volume is unbelievable. If you feel like you've had a bad experience with Amazon in particular, please reach out and let me know and I'll see if there's anything I can do about it.
- gravyboat 10y agoThe recruiters at Amazon are pretty bad in general. They don't give enough details about positions, salary, or anything else to make it worth discussing. I get contacted a few times a year and I always ask to just be added to the 'do not contact' list, but then the next year I'm always contacted again. At this point the teams at Amazon are such a crap shoot that it's not even worth talking to them (plus the pay is trash most of the time if you don't want golden handcuff equity). I always turn them down, but even that first contact is a pretty bad experience.
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- wott 10y agoNice! You've managed to stick almost all the corporate recruiting empty buzzwords in a single message.
- felixgallo 10y agoThat's not very charitable. I get where you're coming from, but in this case, I assure you I mean every word, and I'm happy to put candidates in touch with my direct reports so they can verify that for themselves.
- gaius 10y agoThat NYT expose has scared anyone you would want to hire away from your pipeline altogether. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...
- felixgallo 10y agoThat article does get raised quite a bit. Fortunately I've never seen behavior like that in my org. If I ever did, I would escalate it all the way up to jeff, because working like that would be unacceptable and frankly incompetent.