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Come to Seattle, meet the white collar employees they burn through at an alarming rate. The way Amazon operates is a meat grinder, even for most of their white
by simfree 2y ago
Come to Seattle, meet the white collar employees they burn through at an alarming rate. The way Amazon operates is a meat grinder, even for most of their white collar workforce the churn is significantly higher than other tech companies in the region.
Microsoft, Google, Nintendo, Facebook, F5 and other local firms don't quite have the Hired to Fired pipeline that occurs within 12 to 24 months for the average Amazonian. At each stage it seems Amazon is lighting money on fire...
- PaulHoule 2y agoA while back I remember AMZN recruiters seemed to call anybody who was rumoured to be able to code more than once a month. I'd see Ask HN's were somebody asked "How come I can't get any interviews from FAANG?" and I'd ask "You mean you haven't talked to an AZMN recruiter" and sure enough they'd talked to AMZN recruiters. The people I've mentioned above who seem happy at AMZN have the common denominator that the AMZN job was a definite step up from what they were doing before.