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Re:My Interviews with Amazon by wyldfire on Thursday July 28, 2016 @02:04PM (#12181935)
Maybe that problem only impacts productivity significantly when attrition is high (suggesting that the problem might be with talent retention and not engineering effort spent on interviewing)?
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Re:My Interviews with Amazon by superuser2 on Thursday July 28, 2016 @02:39PM (#12182182)
Perhaps Amazon has an attrition problem - at the company I'm talking about, it's just extremely rapid growth.
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Re:My Interviews with Amazon by ex_amazon_sde on Thursday July 28, 2016 @05:21PM (#12183278)
The attrition problem is well known.
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Re:My Interviews with Amazon by twistedpair on Thursday July 28, 2016 @08:26PM (#12184281)
Have you tried hiring dev's lately? It's a employee's market. We've made offers to a half dozen people in the last 4mo only to be beaten out by other firms. One guy who turned us down had 12 offers.

Sure, you can compromise and take lower quality people, or pay more than anyone in your city, but if you want great people for top 20% of the market pay, it's a lot of work on the hiring side.

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Re:My Interviews with Amazon by brianwawok on Friday July 29, 2016 @08:51AM (#12186467)
Pay more or work remote. You are likely limiting yourself to a tiny Geo area. No reason in 2016 we all need to sit in traffic to commute to work.
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