I, a fairly average and not at all notable software engineer, receive anywhere between 1 and 7 emails from people claiming to be recruiters with addresses that end in @amazon.com every week. It’s different names, sometimes the same content and layout, sometimes unique. I find this quite bizarre, and I imagine it’s some kind of “ask everyone on LinkedIn with software engineer in their title to apply” strategy. Does anyone else experience this? Do you know if these are just bots? I’d love to turn it off too as I have no interest in working there but yeah just curious if others experience this weirdness.
Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?
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#2related
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30363644 ("Amazon recruiters have sent me an email almost every weekday", "I've received two today")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29255283 ("I have recruiters reaching out weekly now for the past month"),
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#3I get a ton! And it’s frustrating because I wouldn’t pass the crazy white board interviews (hazing).
If they really wanted to hire all these people why not have a better interview process?
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#4Definitely in the 10s of emails a year category, even in a market they don't really have that large a headcount in (and most are in-market positions, though I have been contacted about US positions also).
They're not bots as such, but there's a lot of recruiters trawling LinkedIn and less reputable aggregators then inserting your email into their CRM for auto follow ups, which I also would consider at least bot-adjacent behaviour even if there is technically a person in the loop.
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#5I 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 way I would consider working at Amazon is if they guaranteed Jeff Bezos be rocketed out in to space with no way to return to earth. The recruiter laughed it off, ended the conversation, and I've not received any more emails from them.
Try something stupid to get pulled off their email lists I guess? lol
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#6I've been getting them too. I used to tell them to stop contacting me but after that had no effect I've just been ignoring them.
I've got a feeling they've built enough of a reputation they have to cast a wide net for competent people. Of the people I've known who've worked at Amazon, only one enjoyed it. Every mega corp is different and the team you land on makes all the difference in quality of life, but I'm having trouble thinking of anywhere else where I hear such a uniformly negative things. I hope this is a sign of them paying a price for the culture they've built.
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#7I get about 1.5 a week from them and I always tell them I’m not interested in working for Amazon. They call about once a month too. I wish they would leave me alone.
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#8I 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.
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#9true fact: I work as a commercial/diesel engine mechanic and our shop routinely gets glowing correspondence about how wonderful it is to start an amazon account, take payment through amazon and be an amazon affiliate business. until about six months ago, you could even find a stub landing page on amazon for our "new" store that we never created "coming soon." our attorney was fascinated.
turns out we service so many various amazon contractor fleets and warehouse fork trucks our names somehow made it into the shit filled vortex of amazon.com marketing.
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#10Now that you mention it, it's been a while (unless they've all be going to spam or something).
I deleted my LinkedIn 5+ years ago; maybe "my" profile has finally aged out of their system.