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Many employees voted with their feet. From the outside it seems like Amazon has already suffered significant brain drain, they are likely trying to stop the ble
by cle 5y ago
Many employees voted with their feet. From the outside it seems like Amazon has already suffered significant brain drain, they are likely trying to stop the bleeding at this point. In addition to their poor reputation as an employer, seems like they've backed themselves into a corner.
- 1270018080 5y agoWith stack ranking, many engineers blacklisting Amazon, and the sheer size of their engineering department, they must be close to literally running out of engineers to hire in America, right? At least if they stuck to in person work and limited their hiring pool geographically.
- bluedino 5y agoThey can hire new grads every year Getting expensive to move to Seattle though
- whatshisface 5y agoRunning a giant company with nothing but new grads is really asking for every project management problem ever discovered.
- drdeadringer 5y ago> is really asking for every project management problem ever discovered "Oh but they can just google the solution. Welcome aboard."
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- VRay 5y agoNah, all the new grads will be able to balance a red-black tree on a whiteboard in seconds, so they should be able to easily handle all other engineering tasks
- aiisjustanif 5y agoDay 1. Searches, “what is all this docker and kubernetes stuff?”
- adolph 5y agoEvery problem is a solution in the waiting. Imagine a "every project management problem ever" as a service for enterprise customers of AWS. Every year there could be an almanac of recently discovered screwups. Amazon Studios would have a long run reality TV series.
- dilyevsky 5y agoBig co manager api from aws sounds fantastic! You send promo request, they send that less than stellar feedback from 360 review three years ago and your “consistently exceeds (needs more impact)” response.
- shepherdjerred 5y agoIt's one of the reasons I left. A team full of new grads with nobody to properly teach them. Poor designs are drafted and implemented leading to unmaintainable systems.
- sails 5y agoLet alone the project management problems, what about the "Worst Case" from yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28825009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28825009
- spoonjim 5y agoThis is where news and reality diverge
- Jyaif 5y agoI know that they are hiring across the world for their Vancouver office.
- dangerwill 5y agoYep can confirm, got multiple Amazon Vancouver specific recruiters in my inbox last month, and I'm in Ireland
- plebianRube 5y agoI replied back to one of these and explained that due to their anti-union actions, and they way they treat employees, I would never be interested in working there, no matter the salary. I thankfully have never received any more of their spam.
- CamperBob2 5y agoSounds like you both dodged a bullet.
- aerosmile 5y agoTo be fair, very few tech companies would hire someone who starts off by expressing their support for unionization. It's certainly a good "unsubscribe" tactic. For example, if you want to get rid of unwanted Linkedin outreach, just put into your title "Go unions!"
- CRConrad 5y agoGod, America is weird.
- plebianRube 5y agoBeing against anti-union tactics involving privacy and surveillance issues is not the same as being pro union.
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- barry-cotter 5y agoIf they can turn someone into a backend engineer in nine months they can hire forever even with a lot of turnover. > Lambda School to Launch New Backend Engineering Program, Jointly Developed with Amazon https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/lambda-school-launches-backend-engineering-program-amazon https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/lambda-school-launches-... > Inspiration for the new backend program came from Amazon Technical Academy, which trains current, non-technical Amazon employees for software development engineering roles within the company. Amazon Technical Academy’s curriculum is based on the critical knowledge, skills, and attributes required to succeed as a software development engineer at Amazon, which Lambda’s program will cover in their entirety. Amazon Technical Academy is part of Amazon’s commitment to upskill 100,000 of its own employees by 2025.
- anonporridge 5y agoAs a former Amazonian, I'm giddy to see their chickens come home to roost.
- natalyarostova 5y agoThey stopped being able to hire seniors easily. So I quit, because working with 8 people 1 year out of college, and myself with 7 years exp, was awful.
- hbosch 5y agoIn my opinion, "bar raisers" often impede the hiring of candidates who could be good senior level employees.
- backoncemore 5y agoNot to mention the absolutely ridiculous amount of grilling over leadership principles.
- natalyarostova 5y agoAfter doing 5 years of interviews, I think part of the issue is Amazon doesn’t really do onboarding, so everyone is scared of making an L6 offer, because the new hire is expected to perform equal to an L6 who has already been at Amazon for years, on day 1.