This is absolutely tragic, and software is not yet so commoditized that most folk should need to put up with this kind of experience. I can imagine why locally

This is absolutely tragic, and software is not yet so commoditized that most folk should need to put up with this kind of experience. I can imagine why locally Amazon might seem like a good employer, but after a recruitment experience like that, how would you expect to be treated as anything but cattle for the remainder of your placement? I'd sooner take work in a bar or soup kitchen than an environment like that, and in any case definitely wouldn't have participated in the interviews. Are mass recruitment events a recent software thing, or perhaps a local culture thing? I've never heard of them before except maybe for new graduates