[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment ...
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Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?
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.
Author : falafelite
Score : 30 points
Date : 2022-07-06 16:55 UTC (6 hours ago)
| nexus7556 wrote:
| I 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.
| nickphx wrote:
| They stopped emailing me when I refused to do free work as an
| 'assessment'.
| jakobov wrote:
| yes
| Macha wrote:
| Definitely 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.
| teachrdan wrote:
| I 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.
| Bombthecat wrote:
| Say you love in the eu now and moved DVD you need your data to
| be deleted and never get contacted again :)
| coffeefirst wrote:
| Alternatively, reply with pro-Union links.
| hepinhei wrote:
| I got some emails from them asking for some dates, I gave them 5
| different timeslots, 5 times and they failed to answer within all
| the time-frame I gave to the. no-go for me after this.
| whack wrote:
| Amazon is a very decentralized company. Which means that Amazon's
| thousands of recruiters are all operating independently of each
| other, and have minimal systems/regulations to prevent multiple
| recruiters contacting the same person. The different recruiters
| are often recruiting for different teams/divisions as well, so if
| you're open to joining Amazon, you should certainly talk to a
| recruiter whose team matches your interests.
| jdmg94 wrote:
| Most all tech companies treat recruiting as an after thought,
| you would think this Trillion dollar companies would try to use
| their technological leverage to make recruitment more efficient
| but no...
| aynyc wrote:
| I'll say this. I went to FB and AMZN interviews and hiring
| committee. While leetcode style isn't my favorite, the
| process at both companies are outstanding. It was
| transparent, quick and never any pushy sales tactics. I
| personally couldn't see myself working for them so I took
| less money to go elsewhere.
| glouwbug wrote:
| Microsoft totally could with their ownership of LinkedIn +
| GitHub. Why haven't they?
| dekhn wrote:
| Lots. Meta too until recently.
| Kon-Peki wrote:
| Now 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.
| achanda358 wrote:
| I once got a Amazon recruiter email asking for my email address.
| mtmail wrote:
| related
|
| 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"),
| casenjo wrote:
| I was, up until I started reporting them to the Canadian Anti
| Spam website and they stopped shortly after that.
| bakemawaytoys wrote:
| I get emails from Amazon recruiters; I work at Amazon.
| fidgetspinner wrote:
| Yep - I also failed their interview process at one of the later
| stages in 2020 and they seem to have forgotten, because I still
| get at least one recruiting email a week.
| starwind wrote:
| On multiple occasions I've emailed back and asked to be put on a
| "do-not-contact" list but it never works :/
|
| After replying to FB recruiters asking to be taken off their
| contact list one finally added a note to my file saying not to
| contact me and I haven't heard from them since. So...props to
| Facebook I guess
| glonq wrote:
| Emails, no. But plenty of messages on LinkedIn from people
| recruiting for Amazon.
|
| I usually say "thanks but no thanks" because I'm not actively
| looking for a new gig right now.
| flak48 wrote:
| My weirdest Amazon recruiter experience has been receiving an
| email in the middle of an onsite Amazon interview asking if I
| would be interested in interviewing at Amazon.
|
| The recruiter who emailed me was the same one that had setup this
| interview in the first place, and had greeted me in the lobby
| just an hour earlier.
|
| (Insert Xzibit yo dawg meme)
| fetus8 wrote:
| I 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
| wildrhythms wrote:
| I told an Amazon recruiter they have to tell me the
| compensation of the position (I live in a state with such a
| law[1]) and they stopped replying after that.
|
| I still don't know the compensation.
|
| [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/12/states-and-cities-where-
| empl...
| stusmall wrote:
| I'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.
| bilsbie wrote:
| I 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?
| satokema wrote:
| i've started telling the horde of recruiters exactly why i
| don't want to take a side job studying for their interviews for
| a slight chance to work somewhere that is reportedly bad to
| work at - maybe if enough people say something to enough of
| them they'll trickle it upwards.
|
| that's a good pipe dream, but one can hope.
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| Yes. Nonstop. Got two today.
|
| I've already run their gauntlet once and a few of the
| interviewers were dbags (though two were exceedingly awesome and
| nice).
| rsstack wrote:
| After a busy season of Amazon recruiter spam, which didn't stop
| even after I asked to be removed from their database, I emailed
| their corporate support at jeff@amazon.com and it stopped almost
| complete.
| SethKinast wrote:
| I actually added them to my "spammy recruiters" Sieve rule
| because I was getting so many. The combination of these rules
| catches a LOT of recruiter spam; most importantly, it seems that
| most of the recruiters that configure their tooling to
| automatically nag 3 times (once per week) use one of these
| packages, so I get to ignore them as well.
|
| Filtering ant.amazon.com keeps order emails and such while
| discarding any mail sent from recruiters (though it would likely
| also filter mail from non-recruiters if you actually correspond
| with someone at Amazon). if anyof (
| body :text :contains "znsrc.com", header :contains
| "user-agent" "Nylas", exists "X-Ashby-Stage",
| header :contains "message-id" "ant.amazon.com", exists
| "X-ZenSr-ID" ) { fileinto "INBOX.spam";
| stop; }
| nimbius wrote:
| true 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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