Re-hiring previous employees might be something Amazon does for lower wage, warehouse worker role. I seriously doubt Amazon would rehire engineers from unregre

Re-hiring previous employees might be something Amazon does for lower wage, warehouse worker role. I seriously doubt Amazon would rehire engineers from unregretted attrition or employees who were let go. Amazon is actually insanely cost focused. For engineering, Amazon is more likely to hire more aggressively in India, bring more H1Bs to the US, or hire in European markets where total compensation is a fraction of what it is in the US. During my time, a common tactic was to grow offices in India and use them as a pipeline to source H1Bs. In theory, you pay an H1B engineer the same total compensation once they’re in Seattle. Except in reality, if SDE 3 comp is $350K, you can bring an SDE 3 from India for more like $200K. You can get away with this for at least 18-24 months and get enough labor out of that person, until they realize they’re underpaid and demand a higher comp. Then, they either leave Amazon, but you already got several years of cheap labor from them. Otherwise you adjust their pay if you seriously want to keep them around.