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I'd bet they started running into a recruiting problem.
by benburleson 5y ago
I'd bet they started running into a recruiting problem.
- sfsdfsdfsdsdf 5y agoDo they not already? I go out of my way to avoid amazon recruiters as I don't want any part of that toxic environment.
- rejectedandsad 5y agoWhat toxic environment?
- LockDownExposed 5y agoGo to Team Blind and read.
- yerwhat01010 5y ago> My brother Mike... was in the Navy on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf during the 1990s Gulf War, and later worked at Amazon, and declared after four years that Amazon was _way_ more stressful http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legalized-marijuana.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
- khazhoux 5y agoWas that the article you meant to post? It's a Yegge mega-story. What's the connection?
- yerwhat01010 5y agoCtrl+F the quote
- khazhoux 5y agoOh! I thought your brother was in the Navy :-)
- rejectedandsad 5y agoI got promoted working 30 hours a week, maybe don’t work in tier 1 service teams?
- bg24 5y agoNice blog post. He meant it in a positive way, right?
- lhnz 5y agohttps://www.teamblind.com/post/Amazon-is-struggling-to-hire-Qsbq0MRp https://www.teamblind.com/post/Amazon-is-struggling-to-hire-...
- rejectedandsad 5y agoThese are the people that think people like me are subhuman for working at Amazon. Pass.
- thrwyoilarticle 5y ago>Folks pass the bar So give up the hazing. We all know the job's not that hard.
- rantwasp 5y agothe reality is that compensation is sh*t, even at L6 level where you are expected to walk on water. a lot (most?) people I know that worked at Amazon used that as a resume builder that allowed them to open doors and land jobs that would be harder to get otherwise.
- defaultname 5y agoThe whole of Amazon has been tarred with working conditions for their warehouse and drivers. I assume the information workers don't have to piss in bottles and go through metal detectors. However we just recently heard about Amazon hiring to fire, with an internal policy and broken pursuit-of-metrics that yields fundamental dysfunction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27111566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27111566
- someelephant 5y agoRecruiters are getting more desperate and from what I've seen offers are rising significantly. And yet it's still not enough.
- halfmatthalfcat 5y agoThey're also now calling and texting my phone directly instead of the usual inbox invasion. Absolutely desperate.
- joezydeco 5y agoAgree. I've had repeated contacts from Amazon recruiters, including multiple "hi there!" emails from the same person even though I've told them no. I'm in a remote midwestern city that might have an Amazon office but certainly not the R&D center they're recruiting for.
- 0x0000000 5y agoWeird, I just had this happen, too. AMZN recruiter reached out, I politely declined, got another message from the same person 2 days later.
- joezydeco 5y agoAt this level they're just resume harvesters. What's really crappy is they reach out to you making it sound like you're Just The Perfect Person for their role, then hand you a pile of shit you need to study to ace the interview. Guess I'm not the perfect person then or else I'd know all of this, right? Fuck that.