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Amazon treats employees like soulless robots. This already starts when you apply there (as a SWE) and instead of talking to people you get an automated coding t
by j_barbossa 5y ago
Amazon treats employees like soulless robots. This already starts when you apply there (as a SWE) and instead of talking to people you get an automated coding test.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoEvery BigCo that hires tons of un/minimally skilled workers does. That's their whole shtick and a main part of their competitive advantage. By process-ifying everything they can use the cheapest, crappiest parts of the labor pool and still get good results. The operations that haven't abstracted away the need for employees to think somewhat about what they're doing either need to hire better labor or put up with lesser results.
- rejectedandsad 5y agoCoding tests aren’t uncommon at all as a prerequisite to talking to a human, I’ve had them as the first step when applying to Twitter, Akuna Capital, Asana, Airbnb, Yelp (though I asked for it from a recruiter so perhaps not the same), Dropbox, Zoox, Robinhood….