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As a rule, I don’t trust any third party recruiters but that generally limits me to mid sized and up companies unless I actively seek them out. On the other ha

As a rule, I don’t trust any third party recruiters but that generally limits me to mid sized and up companies unless I actively seek them out. On the other hand, I get an email from Amazon recruitment nearly every day and I have zero desire to work the bozos.

Waterluvian 5y ago
Yup. AWS really wants to hire me as another cog. I’ll pass.
- Aeolun 5y ago
  AWS didn’t want to hire me as a cog. I was mildly insulted.
  - jsiaajdsdaa 5y ago
    Maybe you didnt STAR hard enough to be considered a dedicated, fanatic cog :)
    - Aeolun 5y ago
      When I saw they had like 14 principles I was like ‘yeah, peace out’. I can deal with 3-5, but 14? You can’t see the forest for the trees.
      - jsiaajdsdaa 5y ago
        The scary thing is that I actually agree with almost all of their principles, I've memorized my answers for each one (with overlap), I can do quite a few BFS graph problems and implement an LRU cache accurately... I can do data modeling and talk about all of the non functional requirements of distributed systems.... and still I get denied :D Oh well! Guess it will be remote work at a normal company for me then.
spinningD20 5y ago
It's *Bezos. (joke) In all seriousness, my experience with third party recruiters overall has been quite good. One sought me out and continued to follow up until it sounded like a good deal, and in the end I won a sign-on bonus, decent salary, and felt like I started a good working relationship with the recruiter themselves, too. Now, this guy hits me up for when he has potential matches for my team. It's been really good. I'm sure like most things, there are good recruiters and bad ones, regardless of first or third party.
jlund-molfese 5y ago
I was also getting multiple Amazon recruiter emails per day until I actually called one recruiter who listed his phone number on the email up. He was willing to mark me as "Not Interested" or something like that in their candidate pool, and since then, I actually haven't had any more Amazon recruiter spam! Might be worth a try if you like having a clean inbox.
- taormina 5y ago
  I tried that and immediately got 2 more emails from different teams. To this day, they continue. I swear that nobody at Amazon talks to each other.
CSMastermind 5y ago
If you're willing to do a minimal amount of screening to figure out which ones are the good ones, third party recruiters are worth their weight in gold. They make the hiring process significantly easier.

Waterluvian 5y ago

Yup. AWS really wants to hire me as another cog. I’ll pass.

Aeolun 5y ago
AWS didn’t want to hire me as a cog. I was mildly insulted.
- jsiaajdsdaa 5y ago
  Maybe you didnt STAR hard enough to be considered a dedicated, fanatic cog :)
  - Aeolun 5y ago
    When I saw they had like 14 principles I was like ‘yeah, peace out’. I can deal with 3-5, but 14? You can’t see the forest for the trees.
    - jsiaajdsdaa 5y ago
      The scary thing is that I actually agree with almost all of their principles, I've memorized my answers for each one (with overlap), I can do quite a few BFS graph problems and implement an LRU cache accurately... I can do data modeling and talk about all of the non functional requirements of distributed systems.... and still I get denied :D Oh well! Guess it will be remote work at a normal company for me then.

spinningD20 5y ago

It's *Bezos. (joke) In all seriousness, my experience with third party recruiters overall has been quite good. One sought me out and continued to follow up until it sounded like a good deal, and in the end I won a sign-on bonus, decent salary, and felt like I started a good working relationship with the recruiter themselves, too. Now, this guy hits me up for when he has potential matches for my team. It's been really good. I'm sure like most things, there are good recruiters and bad ones, regardless of first or third party.

jlund-molfese 5y ago

I was also getting multiple Amazon recruiter emails per day until I actually called one recruiter who listed his phone number on the email up. He was willing to mark me as "Not Interested" or something like that in their candidate pool, and since then, I actually haven't had any more Amazon recruiter spam! Might be worth a try if you like having a clean inbox.

taormina 5y ago
I tried that and immediately got 2 more emails from different teams. To this day, they continue. I swear that nobody at Amazon talks to each other.

CSMastermind 5y ago

If you're willing to do a minimal amount of screening to figure out which ones are the good ones, third party recruiters are worth their weight in gold. They make the hiring process significantly easier.