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Meanwhile, I have recruiting emails for AWS with the following dates: Oct 17 Oct 14 Oct 12 Sept 26 Aug 24 Aug 15 Each one is from a different "person" (probab

Meanwhile, I have recruiting emails for AWS with the following dates: Oct 17 Oct 14 Oct 12 Sept 26 Aug 24 Aug 15 Each one is from a different "person" (probably the same automated software, of course).

P_I_Staker 4y ago
They've really lowered themselves by resorting to embarrassing tactics. I was getting emails with subject lines only about dogs, and demands to give a yes/no response... it's weird the little games people pull. I ran into a homeless guy, hands full of pennies, and low value change. He's saying "please, I just want money for a hamburger". I'm wondering, how is holding fistfuls of change gonna help. I do get the psychology, but that's a weird strategy; yet part of me think it must be effective for him to try it.
- boring_twenties 4y ago
  To be perfectly honest, I've never heard anything other than horror stories about working at Amazon, so I wouldn't ever consider working there unless I was in a really bad place with no other way to pay my bills. To hedge against that scenario, I used to do the standard quick, polite response. Not anymore. All that got me was even more spam, and even more annoying spam, to boot. Sometimes identical messages, and sometimes messages about how they're trying "one last time" since I obviously must have missed the first N attempts... hilariously, I did't get those kinds of messages any of the times I actually didn't respond! Not only am I almost certainly talking to automated software, but exceptionally low quality software at that! Now I'm thinking even if I do ever become desperate I'd be better off living in a van for a while than working at a place like this.
- llbeansandrice 4y ago
  I had one pretending to be an email confirming a package delivery from Amazon.
  - boring_twenties 4y ago
    So it had absolutely no information about the job in the email, you had to click a link and wait for a page to load just to find out if it was an SWE or warehouse role?
    - llbeansandrice 4y ago
      I know this is sarcasm about the usability of Amazon's notification emails but the "job" email managed to get past my email filters/categorization and jumped into my "Orders" section. A company using a dark pattern to try and get eyes on their job posting. What trash.
- origamirobot 4y ago
  I literally got an email yesterday from Amazon recruiters with the subject line "Tired of recruiters who never give up?"
  - boring_twenties 4y ago
    I hope you responded to that one!

P_I_Staker 4y ago

They've really lowered themselves by resorting to embarrassing tactics. I was getting emails with subject lines only about dogs, and demands to give a yes/no response... it's weird the little games people pull. I ran into a homeless guy, hands full of pennies, and low value change. He's saying "please, I just want money for a hamburger". I'm wondering, how is holding fistfuls of change gonna help. I do get the psychology, but that's a weird strategy; yet part of me think it must be effective for him to try it.

boring_twenties 4y ago
To be perfectly honest, I've never heard anything other than horror stories about working at Amazon, so I wouldn't ever consider working there unless I was in a really bad place with no other way to pay my bills. To hedge against that scenario, I used to do the standard quick, polite response. Not anymore. All that got me was even more spam, and even more annoying spam, to boot. Sometimes identical messages, and sometimes messages about how they're trying "one last time" since I obviously must have missed the first N attempts... hilariously, I did't get those kinds of messages any of the times I actually didn't respond! Not only am I almost certainly talking to automated software, but exceptionally low quality software at that! Now I'm thinking even if I do ever become desperate I'd be better off living in a van for a while than working at a place like this.
llbeansandrice 4y ago
I had one pretending to be an email confirming a package delivery from Amazon.
- boring_twenties 4y ago
  So it had absolutely no information about the job in the email, you had to click a link and wait for a page to load just to find out if it was an SWE or warehouse role?
  - llbeansandrice 4y ago
    I know this is sarcasm about the usability of Amazon's notification emails but the "job" email managed to get past my email filters/categorization and jumped into my "Orders" section. A company using a dark pattern to try and get eyes on their job posting. What trash.
origamirobot 4y ago
I literally got an email yesterday from Amazon recruiters with the subject line "Tired of recruiters who never give up?"
- boring_twenties 4y ago
  I hope you responded to that one!