Is that an audited number? Smells like a corporate pr piece...
200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
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Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#22Sounds more likely jobs offered in one of the rural areas. I love shopping Amazon and I love their technology even more but their work/life balance is terrible. Their tech guys live in fear, real fear, of being someplace without WiFi. I’d probably only last a year - I go to all the parent/teacher conferences at my kids school and that clearly goes against the grain at Amazon.
Everyone I know at Amazon works 8 hour days, completely disconnect when they finish with work, and have tons of flexibility for working from home when family related issues arise.
I don't doubt that you know specific people who are having the opposite experience - Amazon culture varies a lot based on which vp/director you work for. But your friends' experience isn't indicative of all tech employees.
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#23Is that an audited number? Smells like a corporate pr piece...
Bingo. https://www.google.com/search?q="Thousands+of+job-seekers+fl...
Current media recycles headlines to save on work cost. When you have to churn out 20 articles per day, you don’t have many options left.
This doesn’t prove anything.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bingo. https://www.google.com/search?q="Thousands+of+job-seekers+fl...
Current media recycles headlines to save on work cost. When you have to churn out 20 articles per day, you don’t have many options left. This doesn’t prove anything.
It's good enough for me unless someone can show that the sites in the results are owned by the same company.
Edit: The articles seem to be completely identical. That's a lot of recycling!
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#25For 30k open positions
That is actually a surprisingly good ratio. I work for a company that deals with this kind of data and the applicant to hire ratio at some companies, especially in retail or unskilled jobs can easily hit much, much higher than that. When I see people complaining about the hiring processes for many low qualification jobs they often have no idea just how many people they are up againt. They get annoyed because they did…
I think my best experience as a (student) job seeker was McKinsey. They called me to provide me some detailed feedback about why they wouldn't hire me. I was very grateful and it is true that it contributes to their brand. The students they turn down may be their client in a distant future.
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#26For 30k open positions
FWIW, one local supermarket cashier job near me got almost 500 applications - so the 3/20 for this isn't horrible.
The last back-end position I applied for had like 15 applicants
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#27Only slightly related: If I open the link on my iOS device, music playing stops (Spotify). Somehow CBS manages with their useless auto play videos to kill my background music playing. Should this be possible? I thought there is no auto play video on IOS?
In chrome you can often force auto play by playing a sound (and having that fail) and then playing another sound right after that. Maybe IOS has a similar loophole?
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Current media recycles headlines to save on work cost. When you have to churn out 20 articles per day, you don’t have many options left. This doesn’t prove anything.
It's good enough for me unless someone can show that the sites in the results are owned by the same company. Edit: The articles seem to be completely identical. That's a lot of recycling!
CBS offers a wire-service of sorts to many of its affiliates so the same story is reposted lots of different places, similar to the AP.
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#29Is that an audited number? Smells like a corporate pr piece...
Bingo. https://www.google.com/search?q="Thousands+of+job-seekers+fl...
The narrative that the labor market is full and therefore wages must remain low must be preserved at all costs.
200k people applied for 30k jobs that's less than 10/1 anyone who has done hiring in IT knows that roughly 1/10 applicants are even qualified for a particular position.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's good enough for me unless someone can show that the sites in the results are owned by the same company. Edit: The articles seem to be completely identical. That's a lot of recycling!
CBS offers a wire-service of sorts to many of its affiliates so the same story is reposted lots of different places, similar to the AP.
'Wire-service' as C20 jargon for copy pasta.