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Yay, maybe fewer amazon recruiter emails now. I figure their recruiting team is big but they were sending 4-5 emails a day from different recruiters which feels like a lot!

Certainly seems like tech hiring is about to slow down like crazy, at least from my friends' qualitative experiences in recent weeks.

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> Certainly seems like tech hiring is about to slow down like crazy, at least from my friends' qualitative experiences in recent weeks.

I think that it already has slowed down pretty significantly.

My amount of recruiter email has increased :-s

Anecdotally mine has too but I have a lot of experience and I am not sure how serious some of these recruiters are ;)

How much experience do you have?

It isn't just that they send recruiting emails, they refuse to honor any opt outs and the recruiters will say things if you don't respond like... "I'll never stop trying" or "You don't live that far from me, I may just have to drop by"

Not just that, when i was banned from Amazon interviews for one year (I don't know why to this day), their recruiters kept contacting me. I spoke to one (on a whim) and the recruiter came back and apologized to me that they could not move forward with the interview process. Apparently they don't vet who they contact.

I still get Amazon recruiter emails.

I've found a strategy that has worked fairly well for me. It doesn't result in them permanently leaving me alone, but it at least grants a reprieve. Ask to be removed from their contact list, and also reference the last person you asked. "Hi John, no thanks, and please remove me from your contact list. I previously asked Betty (bettysmith@amazon), and it seems to have not gone through."

I get about 3 months of silence from them each time I do that. When I just respond "no thanks" I continue to get about 1 contact per week.

I’m not convinced there’s always a human on the other end of these emails. After suspecting so (when I started receiving multiple reach out from the same Amazon recruiter in one day, all with 24 hour follow ups), I starter replying to some with a short “Sounds great!” or just “Ok” and literally never got a response. I did however continue getting more reach outs.

It seems like borderline harassment. I am thinking a small claims case may get the right people involved to at least permanently be removed and maybe even get them to settle for small amount.

I recently received a mail from them which was like "We found your profile interesting, so we automatically created a profile for you in our career web and will notify you about any matching job openings", all after I turned them down multiple times in the past. I basically just said whatever and let it go.

Amazon employees also get those sorts of emails. During my time there I'd get emails from recruiters and management who had no idea I worked there but also those who did with the intent to poach me for their own team.

About a year and a half ago, I applied for a role in security engineering. I went through a phone screen and a 5-hour interview gauntlet, then got rejected.

A week later, another AWS recruiter e-mailed me saying I'd be a great fit for a security engineering role asking me to apply. It felt like salt on the wound. I was thinking...I just finished interviewing and got rejected. Do you recruiters not talk to each other?

I’ve gotten multiple emails from the SAME recruiter in one day. I’m certain they are not all coming from a human pressing Send each time.

I've been getting bombarded by recruiter emails. Sometimes from different recruiters on the same day.

Mine slowed down for a few months and recently they've been as high as ever

I've had only the worst kind of experiences with Amazon recruiters.

Someone recently wanted to hire me as a Junior Android Developer. I'm not a (professional) dev. I've never done Android. I'm a Senior Product Exec

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