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Amazon recruiters are some of the least organized. There have been times when I got contacted by 3 recruiters during same week but none of them knew about other
by telltruth 8y ago
Amazon recruiters are some of the least organized. There have been times when I got contacted by 3 recruiters during same week but none of them knew about others. There have also been times when Amazon recruiter calls me and I tell them I was contacted before and they have no ability to verify or look up what happened before! Many of these recruiters also look like one-off vendors working on some twisted reward scheme so they often don't care about candidate experience or long term maintenance of information. There is simply no organizational memory of some very basic things like candidate profiles, pipelines, leads etc. Compared to this Google has invested enormously in maintaining beautiful detailed profiles of anyone who ever contacted them.
Perhaps one reason for this Amazon chaos is also that they really don't care about employee turnover. Attrition is the way to weed out less productive folks so you just keep hiring en-mass and keep firing en-mass. Someone might say this would create huge voids in project memory and continuity but its perhaps good because it forces to create documentation and other artifacts with assumption that others won't be around soon. This is very different than Google culture and it seems to have worked at least to some extent.