Ask HN: Do you also get frequent Amazon recruitment emails?

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)

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

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;
    }

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.

That was last year, and I continue to receive their recruiting emails every week or two.

If they really wanted to hire all these people why not have a better interview process?

I did go through the interview loop once but stopped right before the final because of comp.

They basically pay everyone a cap of ~$150k/year USD, but they'll make up whatever you're losing in base with a tiered sign-on attached to a clawback clause and their famously-high RSU package with their infamous four-year vesting schedule. Not for me. (I make $215k base and am eyeing for more.)

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

I've already run their gauntlet once and a few of the interviewers were dbags (though two were exceedingly awesome and nice).

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.

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"),

Again, she responded with another well crafted email thanking me for responding and referencing my reason that I gave in the abstract--and also LOL'ing about the bot comment.

It could have been AI I guess..I'm still paranoid.

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.

I deleted my LinkedIn 5+ years ago; maybe "my" profile has finally aged out of their system.

I usually say "thanks but no thanks" because I'm not actively looking for a new gig right now.