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Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

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Re: Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

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Post by spacedcowboy »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #79
rzanella wrote: post #62

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I interviewed for Amazon Brazil once, it felt like I was being questioned by the police as if in a movie: - 4 straight hours inside a room - every hour the interviewer changed - got asked the same questions over and over again I was quite upset that I didn't pass... couple weeks later I was not, what a shitty experience it was.

"- 4 straight hours inside a room - every hour the interviewer changed - got asked the same questions over and over again" It's the same in UK, at least they standardised it!

It's the same in the US too. My last (internal transfer) job interview at Apple was 8 hours long, 8 interviews.

Re: Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

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Post by jgalt212 »

The labor market is super tight, so whatever labor wants, labor gets. I suspect this will turn on a dime, when the labor market softens.

The cynic in me thinks big tech wants to promote WFH forever, as they have benefited stupendously from the war-time economy and they are in no rush back to normalcy.

Re: Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

teh_infallible wrote: post #51
jorblumesea wrote: post #39

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The other thing to add on is that Amazon is having a hard time recruiting, at least anecdotally from friends who work there. Between their reputation as a company and hot job market, filling some senior level eng roles has become near impossible.

A recruiter contacted me one for a position at Amazon, and I straight up said I will never work there because of the way they treat their employees. (Probably burned a bridge with that recruiter, but oh well)

> (Probably burned a bridge with that recruiter, but oh well)

They seem to have a lot of recruiters and I'm surprised if this even got you off their "contact every month" list.

Re: Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

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Post by bluedino »

1270018080 wrote: post #124
cle wrote: post #43

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Many employees voted with their feet. From the outside it seems like Amazon has already suffered significant brain drain, they are likely trying to stop the bleeding at this point. In addition to their poor reputation as an employer, seems like they've backed themselves into a corner.

With stack ranking, many engineers blacklisting Amazon, and the sheer size of their engineering department, they must be close to literally running out of engineers to hire in America, right? At least if they stuck to in person work and limited their hiring pool geographically.

They can hire new grads every year

Getting expensive to move to Seattle though

Re: Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

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Post by jedberg »

WalterBright wrote: post #92
jedberg wrote: post #77

> as long as they are able to commute to the office when necessary This is they key right here. Basically you still have to live within a few hours drive of Seattle or Palo Alto, or even less depending on your patience. Still better than five days a week in the office though!

> you still have to live within a few hours drive of Seattle That encompasses the entire state of Washington, and includes a good chunk of Oregon. Not a burden. P.S. Friends of mine have lived in Seattle and commuted to eastern Washington some decades ago. It's entirely workable.

And includes parts of Canada too! But you still have to live nearish to Seattle.

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

ripper1138 wrote: post #38
kreeben wrote: post #28

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It is not I who is spoiled. It is old school boomer management who have become spoiled and exploitative.

We are very fortunate to be paid as much as we are for sitting at home and working on a computer. Compared to 99% of other adults around the world, we are spoiled.

a large chunk of the workforce, from accountants to stock brokers to HR, work on a computer. It's not a privilege to have no fresh air and to spend 70% of your life in front of a screen on a chair.

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

rootusrootus wrote: post #58
teh_infallible wrote: post #51

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A recruiter contacted me one for a position at Amazon, and I straight up said I will never work there because of the way they treat their employees. (Probably burned a bridge with that recruiter, but oh well)

Both Facebook and Amazon have contacted me recently, and in both cases it was a senior manager doing the recruiting. Maybe just a new strategy in general, or perhaps it's because both companies struggle with reputation.

If they were contacting you with a specific interesting position, that would be something. If they were contacting you with a generic position they just needed to fill...that sounds like a lot of cringe.

Re: Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

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Post by aantix »

jedberg wrote: post #77

> as long as they are able to commute to the office when necessary This is they key right here. Basically you still have to live within a few hours drive of Seattle or Palo Alto, or even less depending on your patience. Still better than five days a week in the office though!

Could the commute be via a plane?

Re: Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

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Post by spacedcowboy »

nkingsy wrote: post #81
ashtonkem wrote: post #50

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There must be a bonus that's not properly represented on levels.fyi, because Amazon's cash compensation is pretty poor compared even to some non-FAANG companies.

Off-topic, but is levels.fyi... on the level? I ask because I'm hearing about all sorts of 350k-500k offers for senior engineers, but they're not showing up there. My current salary seems right about "in band" on there, but people in my network who I talk to seem to think I'm way underpaid.

I'm an ICT5 at Apple, pushing for ICT6 (but it won't be next year, ICT6 is more about who you know than what you know), and just had my perf review. This year I got total comp (salary, bonus, RSUs) of just over 520k, which is consistent with last year and the year before.
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