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Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by hvidgaard »

vidarh wrote: post #118
hvidgaard wrote: post #74

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It's crazy what people think is acceptable. At least half of all the people that apply to our junior positions cannot answer simple question such as "how would you find the first "42" in an array of integers, and give me the index". If they don't have an idea of how to count with a for loop and write an if statement, they're not qualified for programming. Some even ask if they can take the "assignment" home and get b…

> Some even ask if they can take the "assignment" home and get back to me. The amount of cut-and-paste I've seen on "take home" assignments is just staggering. I've only ever used it for pre-screening before scheduling phone interviews, and so only a handful of very simple questions as I'd have considered it unfair to ask anyone to put much effort in that early in the process. I always cut and paste a few sentences i…

If a developer can do simple programming, and then are honest with not knowing the answer to a question "but here is what I found searching for an answer and I think it's x, because y" - would get so many point in my book. That is the spirit of learning.

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by mav3rick »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #37
noego wrote: post #22

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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.

Most of my friends left as they were done with the low pay and on call.

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by filmgirlcw »

conjectures wrote: post #30
filmgirlcw wrote: post #28

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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.

No...it’s a syndication agreement.

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by notus »

WhompingWindows wrote: post #135
notus wrote: post #127

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I'm a senior software engineer and my experience is much different for contrast. I get a response from almost every place I apply.

How many years of experience did you have when you got senior title?

6 years. At my current company you have to demonstrate leadership abilities and also technical ability to get it. It isn't given to people for just existing for a certain amount of time in a specific career. At least not where I work, a lot of places do that which leads to incompetent seniors.

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by vectorEQ »

csydas wrote: post #50
vectorEQ wrote: post #44

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i just find it funny that theres posts about shortages of it people, and posts about a quarter of a million ppl applying to one company. who's lying. :D

Neither :) You're missing an adjective from your observation: qualified. For any given position, even when you're pretty specific on the requirements, you will get an onslaught of applicants who have absolutely no business trying to apply for said position, but they do it anyways just because it vaguely matches a skillset they have and they need a job. This isn't a criticism of such persons; it's foolish for people t…

how do you qualify if someone is qualified? how do you know what percentage of these people is unqualified? do you go by the rate who is not hired? i know there's people out there applying for jobs they don't have the required skillset for, don't get me wrong. but these numbers which are posted say nothing about that, and so no observation can be made on that point? Or am i missing something further?

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by droidist2 »

azemda wrote: post #148
jimbob45 wrote: post #133

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- H1Bs are cheaper to hire and take the place of American jobs (though to a far lesser degree than you'll hear during this upcoming election - Everyone is preparing for a recession (for the last three years now) - Jobs are posted online and get tons of applicants now. That makes it easier to switch cities and not have to go through a period of unemployment but that also means they get tons of applicants. Are many of…

>Are many of them bots? You bet. Why would someone create bots that apply to jobs? Just nuisance or any intention behind it?

Bots? Andrew Yang is right, the robots are gunning for our jobs!

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by akhilcacharya »

mav3rick wrote: post #192
akhilcacharya wrote: post #37

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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.

Most of my friends left as they were done with the low pay and on call.

Again, what do you define as “low pay”. I’d really love to know!

I’m on-call at this moment too. Like I said previously, either there’s a concrete reasoning for this or it’s just plain elitism.

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by 1123581321 »

mempko wrote: post #114
rshnotsecure wrote: post #36

This 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…

But we have such a strong economy!

No matter the strength of the economy, there will be people who are not good at applying for and getting jobs. That’s who most of these applications come from.

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by sieabahlpark »

joshlegs wrote: post #169
sieabahlpark wrote: post #150

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You can assume if they wanted to hire 30k people they probably have a listing that applies to more than one position.

sure, but what i'm saying, is were all the actual unique positions listed, not were each individual position for each job listed .... make sense?

What benefit would they have to do that? They need to hire 30k people, if more roles evolve as they interview and realize they need them they'll make them but then again, if you're hiring 30k people at once you probably have a good idea of who you need to hire all the way up and down the management chain.

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Post by mav3rick »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #197
mav3rick wrote: post #192

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Most of my friends left as they were done with the low pay and on call.

Again, what do you define as “low pay”. I’d really love to know! I’m on-call at this moment too. Like I said previously, either there’s a concrete reasoning for this or it’s just plain elitism.

I'm not here to help you with your pay research. Just telling you my experience. There are many threads on Reddit and stats on levels.fyi to compare your offer with others. You clearly like being on-call and seem to be happy with your offer as well. Best of luck !
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