Not in Queens.
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
#32Only 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?
Is there some kind of legitimate reason it has to work this way that this workaround takes advantage of, or is it just an oversight/bug?
How you're describing it it sounds like they only block the first sound you try to auto play - if the latter is the reason then that's really surprising.
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#33Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#34There are people who prefer seasonal work. Maybe Xmas and summer gigs with rest of year off. Read the book Nomadland for details.
The industry has disconnected itself so much from actual human beings that "There are people who prefer seasonal work" is a valid response.
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Is there some kind of legitimate reason it has to work this way that this workaround takes advantage of, or is it just an oversight/bug? How you're describing it it sounds like they only block the first sound you try to auto play - if the latter is the reason then that's really surprising.
I can’t think of any legitimate reason, but it’s not impossible to imagine an unintentional bug like a race condition or flawed logic causing this.
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#36This is not unusual. My spouse works for Glassdoor. Entry level programmer jobs in Texas will get 2000 applications (not bots) within about 72 hours. Desperate people from all over the US.
I think at one time the advice to “play the numbers game” was correct for online job apps. Not anymore.
Even more saddening, Glassdoor uses a temp/test sample job ad. It’s for cat sitting. $15/hr. That will get hundreds of apps in 48 hours if someone forgets to take it down (is only supposed to go up for 60 mins max but things happen).
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#37Sounds 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.
I work at Amazon and this is basically my experience. I don’t know why there’s so much FUD about it, and it’s been the same on other teams I’ve worked on as well.
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#38Earlier 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!
That doesn't seem strange at all to me. Some news stories come from 3rd party news agencies that sell the articles with non-exclusive rights. E.g. in Germany basically every local newspaper is built on top on articles sourced from dpa (Deutsche Presseagentur), and usually marked accordingly.
Of course there are also less reputable methods like just scraping articles from your competition.
Either way, it doesn't really _prove_ anything regarding it being a seeded PR piece, though my gut also tells me that it's likely.
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there some kind of legitimate reason it has to work this way that this workaround takes advantage of, or is it just an oversight/bug? How you're describing it it sounds like they only block the first sound you try to auto play - if the latter is the reason then that's really surprising.
I can’t think of any legitimate reason, but it’s not impossible to imagine an unintentional bug like a race condition or flawed logic causing this.
It's not impossible to imagine but it is surprising. Just seems like a very obvious test case. Try once. Try again.
Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
#40Is that an audited number? Smells like a corporate pr piece...
Well, they have to counter some really, really bad pr, like this piece[1] after all.
[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/amazon...