Amazon developing software to replace recruiters

This trend is already in motion. I have been interviewing in Berlin for the past 2 months and most are using automated assessment now. The initial video interviews (if any) are 15 minutes or less with very young recruiters who have no idea what they are interviewing about. They all funnel into either Metaview video recordings or Test Gorilla. I'm not even talking about the tech assessments. Personality assessments are done on Test Gorilla and other services. Assessment links are the new Calendly links. Later video interviews usually involve people looking off-screen at a script or website. They also try to circumvent negotiations with these things. "Your offer will be based on our grading system from these test results so no desired pay range is required." These are modern startups doing this, not the giant megacorps.

This most recent job search has been really impersonal and lame. Things have gotten much worse than just 5 years ago. I've been in the industry about 15 years now.

Shouldn't be hard. Their strategy seems to be using recruiters with weird names to spam everyone an introduction followed by an online first round coding challenge.

"Last week, Amazon extended buyout offers to hundreds of its recruiters as part of what is expected to be a months-long cycle of layoffs." The article implies this is because they now have some AI that can scrape linkedin, reach out to potential talent, and do everything the recruiters were doing. i.e. it wasn't a warehouse amazon job that was automated away, but a white collar desk job.

Do they have recruiters recruiting engineers to help build it?

if they use hire fast - fire fast approach they actually don't need a good pre-filter (recruiter). Amazon IT is more like warehouse, so this is their way of doing it. Good pay is the main motivation factor. I was approached by recruiter and money was his main argument. He didn't know his own fate back then... PS: Facebook had the best recruiting process. They invested a lot of personal time in it.

Thanks for sharing. This is a terrible candidate experience the way they're doing this.

"Replace recruiters" seems to be overselling it:

"The AAE technology removes one key role that some recruiters serve at Amazon, which is evaluating job applicants and choosing which should move on to job interviews. The program uses the performance reviews of current employees, along with information about their resumes and any online job assessments they completed during their hiring process, to evaluate current job applicants for similar roles."

That would just be a slightly less obnoxious email spam bot.

Nice information. Thanks for sharing.