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Amazon recruiting is a disaster. I’m used to receiving a reach out once or twice a year, but late last year I had at least four recruiters reaching out, three s

Amazon recruiting is a disaster. I’m used to receiving a reach out once or twice a year, but late last year I had at least four recruiters reaching out, three simultaneously. I think one even attempted to automate the process because I received two separate emails from him along with follow ups on each in a matter of four hours, and my replies never got through as they were completely ignored as he continued to follow up (on both original emails) several times over the next week.

dralley 5y ago
> I think one even attempted to automate the process because I received two separate emails from him along with follow ups on each in a matter of four hours, and my replies never got through as they were completely ignored as he continued to follow up (on both original emails) several times over the next week. This happened to me. I got the exact same recruiting email from the exact same recruiter a week after I had already responded by declining.
1024core 5y ago
Amazon Recruiting is indeed a disaster. I got approached by an Amazon recruiter, and instead of just ignoring him, I decided to see "what's out there". I'm a staff SWE level at a decent company, so not exactly desperate to leave. He proposed a hard time for a phone call later that week. I replied saying that I have conflicts at that time, how about we do it next week? Didn't hear back from him for a couple of days, and then he replied saying he's too busy next week. OK then, can you let me know when you're free? Never heard from him again. Sounded very unprofessional to me.
- yurishimo 5y ago
  Nah, they just want to find the people who are enthusiastically looking to join their organization. They want the mindless drone who will do what they're told and when asked to jump, reply with "how high?" You didn't meet that criteria otherwise you would have bent over backwards to adjust your schedule to make the proposed time, so "obviously" you don't really want this job enough.
  - goostavos 5y ago
    No, no. Trust me, it's just pure incompetence. I've been at Amazon for like 4-5 years now. Recruiting quality and practices are widely bemoaned. It sucks on both sides of the fence. We'll sit through brutal interviews because recruiting just throws everything at the wall in hopes something will stick. It's demoralizing for everyone involved. Even the little things drive me insane. I get emails from lazy, zero-effort recruiters asking if I'd like to join Amazon because "they saw my profile on Linkedin and it looked like a great fit!" Like, holy shit, can you not put in even a little bit of effort? You're just shotgunning canned emails all over the place making us all look like spammy dopes? Sigh...
vlozko 5y ago
No joke there about how disorganized they are. At one point a couple of years ago I had 3 different recruiters simultaneously reach out to me to work for Audible for the same role. I wonder if their pay is partially commission-based and they have to be so cut-throat, even against fellow recruiters.
kevincrane 5y ago
lmao there was a period of time where I'd get 3 or 4 Amazon recruiters at a time emailing me. It started with polite "no thanks, I'm good" and worked to "please stop emailing me". Then when no one would respond to those, I started saying "yes, I'd love to work for you", just so I could get a response from a human and get them to acknowledge my "stop emailing me" requests.

dralley 5y ago

> I think one even attempted to automate the process because I received two separate emails from him along with follow ups on each in a matter of four hours, and my replies never got through as they were completely ignored as he continued to follow up (on both original emails) several times over the next week. This happened to me. I got the exact same recruiting email from the exact same recruiter a week after I had already responded by declining.

1024core 5y ago

Amazon Recruiting is indeed a disaster. I got approached by an Amazon recruiter, and instead of just ignoring him, I decided to see "what's out there". I'm a staff SWE level at a decent company, so not exactly desperate to leave. He proposed a hard time for a phone call later that week. I replied saying that I have conflicts at that time, how about we do it next week? Didn't hear back from him for a couple of days, and then he replied saying he's too busy next week. OK then, can you let me know when you're free? Never heard from him again. Sounded very unprofessional to me.

yurishimo 5y ago
Nah, they just want to find the people who are enthusiastically looking to join their organization. They want the mindless drone who will do what they're told and when asked to jump, reply with "how high?" You didn't meet that criteria otherwise you would have bent over backwards to adjust your schedule to make the proposed time, so "obviously" you don't really want this job enough.
- goostavos 5y ago
  No, no. Trust me, it's just pure incompetence. I've been at Amazon for like 4-5 years now. Recruiting quality and practices are widely bemoaned. It sucks on both sides of the fence. We'll sit through brutal interviews because recruiting just throws everything at the wall in hopes something will stick. It's demoralizing for everyone involved. Even the little things drive me insane. I get emails from lazy, zero-effort recruiters asking if I'd like to join Amazon because "they saw my profile on Linkedin and it looked like a great fit!" Like, holy shit, can you not put in even a little bit of effort? You're just shotgunning canned emails all over the place making us all look like spammy dopes? Sigh...

vlozko 5y ago

No joke there about how disorganized they are. At one point a couple of years ago I had 3 different recruiters simultaneously reach out to me to work for Audible for the same role. I wonder if their pay is partially commission-based and they have to be so cut-throat, even against fellow recruiters.

kevincrane 5y ago

lmao there was a period of time where I'd get 3 or 4 Amazon recruiters at a time emailing me. It started with polite "no thanks, I'm good" and worked to "please stop emailing me". Then when no one would respond to those, I started saying "yes, I'd love to work for you", just so I could get a response from a human and get them to acknowledge my "stop emailing me" requests.