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Re:My Interviews with Amazon by Bartweiss on Thursday July 28, 2016 @03:51PM (#12182688)
The worst I've seen is a recruiter that didn't tell me I had been accepted. I found out when someone at the company followed up on why I hadn't responded to the offer.

I have no idea how a commission-based business manages to do something like that.

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Re:My Interviews with Amazon by _RPM on Friday July 29, 2016 @12:29PM (#12187920)
Are internal recruiters (sales people) commission based? Seems strange.
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Re:My Interviews with Amazon by Bartweiss on Monday August 01, 2016 @09:36AM (#12202237)
No, but lots of firms (this wasn't Amazon) hire external recruiters who are commission based, usually a percentage of salary for each candidate placed. Some also get "right to represent", where you can't apply through the employer directly once you've started a process with the recruiter.

Which makes this utterly weird - it was literally a matter of giving up (potentially) several grand by not forwarding an email.

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