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Re: Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?

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Post by wildrhythms » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 10:14 PM UTC

fetus8 wrote: post #5

I too was receiving regular emails from Amazon recruiters for Software Engineering positions, and haven't been on Linkedin or any sort of job based site since 2017 when I got my current job, yet was still receiving these emails up until late last year. Finally, I pretended to be interested in the position and started talking with the recruiter. When we got to the compensation and benefits part, I mentioned the only w…

I told an Amazon recruiter they have to tell me the compensation of the position (I live in a state with such a law[1]) and they stopped replying after that.

I still don't know the compensation.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/12/states-and-cities-where-empl...

Re: Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?

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Post by fidgetspinner » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 10:22 PM UTC

Yep - I also failed their interview process at one of the later stages in 2020 and they seem to have forgotten, because I still get at least one recruiting email a week.

Re: Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?

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Post by HWR_14 » Thu, Jul 07, 2022, 12:26 AM UTC

wildrhythms wrote: post #31

fetus8 wrote: post #5

I too was receiving regular emails from Amazon recruiters for Software Engineering positions, and haven't been on Linkedin or any sort of job based site since 2017 when I got my current job, yet was still receiving these emails up until late last year. Finally, I pretended to be interested in the position and started talking with the recruiter. When we got to the compensation and benefits part, I mentioned the only w…

I told an Amazon recruiter they have to tell me the compensation of the position (I live in a state with such a law[1]) and they stopped replying after that. I still don't know the compensation. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/12/states-and-cities-where-empl...

I have no idea why they're so hesitant to tell you the compensation. That has to come up sometime, and early filters are better at not wasting everyone's time.

Re: Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?

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Post by zamalek » Thu, Jul 07, 2022, 12:45 AM UTC

starwind wrote: post #25

On multiple occasions I've emailed back and asked to be put on a "do-not-contact" list but it never works :/ After replying to FB recruiters asking to be taken off their contact list one finally added a note to my file saying not to contact me and I haven't heard from them since. So...props to Facebook I guess

It took one reply explaining my disinterest on account of moral grounds for them to stop contacting me.

Re: Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?

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Post by datavirtue » Thu, Jul 07, 2022, 1:02 AM UTC

I was contacted through a seemingly organic and sincere recruiting email about a week ago. I ignored it but she kept following up with seemingly hand crafted emails. I responded with something to the effect of "if this isn't some type of bot/scam, I appreciate it but I'm not interested.

Again, she responded with another well crafted email thanking me for responding and referencing my reason that I gave in the abstract--and also LOL'ing about the bot comment.

It could have been AI I guess..I'm still paranoid.

Re: Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?

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Post by sethammons » Thu, Jul 07, 2022, 1:33 AM UTC

I get them. Replied to one for a principal role for $900k/yr. Turned out they wanted what I consider a principal II and I was a tad shy of what they were looking for.

Re: Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?

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Post by nus07 » Thu, Jul 07, 2022, 1:45 AM UTC

Yes and I have a folder full of Amazon spam emails.Amazon gets away with crap because they have a supply of smart but desperate H1b folks. If ever the H1b pipeline dries up or they find other opportunities , Amazon’s hiring and business model of infinite supply to churn out will fail.

Re: Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?

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Post by voakbasda » Thu, Jul 07, 2022, 1:51 AM UTC

teachrdan wrote: post #8

I replied to a recruiting email with: "I would literally rather shoot myself in the fucking head twice than work for Amazon." That was last year, and I continue to receive their recruiting emails every week or two.

I reply similarly and tell them to stop contacting me. And yet the spam continues….

Re: Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?

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Post by nunez » Thu, Jul 07, 2022, 2:18 AM UTC

Yup, and I can't seem to stop them.

I did go through the interview loop once but stopped right before the final because of comp.

They basically pay everyone a cap of ~$150k/year USD, but they'll make up whatever you're losing in base with a tiered sign-on attached to a clawback clause and their famously-high RSU package with their infamous four-year vesting schedule. Not for me. (I make $215k base and am eyeing for more.)

Re: Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?

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Post by nunez » Thu, Jul 07, 2022, 2:22 AM UTC

flak48 wrote: post #26

My weirdest Amazon recruiter experience has been receiving an email in the middle of an onsite Amazon interview asking if I would be interested in interviewing at Amazon. The recruiter who emailed me was the same one that had setup this interview in the first place, and had greeted me in the lobby just an hour earlier. (Insert Xzibit yo dawg meme)

Should have stopped the onsite and started over!