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Ask HN: How many Amazon recruiters are currently bugging you?

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Right now I have three separate Amazon recruiters who are actively trying to recruit me... One of them is from a "special internal team". When I asked them about what is special about this team they didn't know. None of the recruiters have any awareness of the other. I haven't taken any of the programming tests yet, but they keep getting renewed, even though I've missed the deadline multiple times in a row and haven't talked to the recruiter again.

What's going on at Amazon? They are needing to hire SWEs this bad? Is this new? Have they always operated like this?

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>> What's going on at Amazon?

Amazon is customer-centric, but employee-abusive. They use employees like disposable paper products and always need more.

>> They are needing to hire SWEs this bad?

Yes. They have natural attrition due to employee burn out and an "unregretted attrition" quota where they fire 6% of their employees [1].

>> Is this new?

No.

>> Have they always operated like this?

Yes, for quite some time.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/internal-amazon...

Their reputation is well known as a low quality underpaying sweat shop. So no one wants to work there.

Usually at least a few, and none of them seem aware of the others. Even when I was interviewing with them a few years ago individual recruiters appeared to not remember who they had already put me in touch with.

They bug me about jobs that have nothing in-common with my background. They mention my "profile" but, whatever profile they are looking at is not mine and they won't tell me where it is.

It's always been like this for me. I used to respond and engage to build a relationship "just in case", but they churn so fast there's no point.

You can get them to stop talking to you by purposely bombing the coding challenge that they give out. That should do the trick.

None, but for some reason I have three Apple recruiters contacting me about the exact same role.

Literally like 6 over the past few days. Totally insane.

There's a new one every week.

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