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Amazon is so desperate for employees that you often see the same person interview multiple times until they get in

This doesn't make sense to me. Wouldn't they hire them first time around if they were truly desperate?

Because the interview process is structured to "raise the bar" but is also highly random. As with any tech company, you have to run the gauntlet to get a hire. It's politically easier to have candidates reinterview when they fail rather than get permission from executives to "lower the bar."

OK, I get that, but this assumes that their politics are not affected by their desperation, right?

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