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Well it's good that someone tolerated it; now I have another couple names for my job black list. Thanks! :)

(Although I wouldn't work for Amazon anyway, but now I don't have to do any research if a company brings up "ProctorU").

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You have to really watch those interview red flags. They're super important.

I had one right out of college where the office (on energy efficient lightning) looked like some cubicle version of hell. A person in the elevator on the way to the interview mouthed "run away" to me, and really creeped me out.

I got the job, but literally couldn't even handle a full day in that cave-like godawful place.

Holy cow.. I've got an Amazon SRE headhunter sitting in my inbox right now. I am sorely tempted to decline and send a link to this article as reason why.

Please do

I think that would be good feedback, if you're turning it down --hopefully it will incentivize them to change. If you're taking it, of course not.

Do it.

Same here. It was for lab126, I was excited about it until I read this article..

Some other commenter up there says he worked at lab126 and it's sane there.

Save the link, you'll use it again and again.

I bit at an Amazon posting 5 years ago, but declined to do the Seattle interview when a local (and more attractive) position opened up.

Despite repeatedly telling Amazon's headhunters that I'm not interested, I hear from them about every 6 months.

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