Amazon announced a corporate-level hiring freeze just today, FYI.

Someone should tell the two recruiters in my inbox...

Recruiters are actually slow in this development, because it happens last night after 8 PM PST.

Effectively no offer would be able to generate through the system.

I would say the Amazon spam will go away for next 6 months if not longer.

Funny, I did my first interview with them a week ago.

You and I have different definitions of funny.

I am not a native English speaker. Here I used funny as a synonim for strange, which is probably a mistake due to me extracting most of my English knowledge from Hollywood films.

For a moment I thought you outed yourself as German, because a sentence like: “Komisch, ich hatte ein Interview mit ihnen letzte Woche.” works just fine. But we German’s have no sense of humor so I’ve heard. Also an explanation.

>But we German’s have no sense of humor so I’ve heard.

That's how Germans are perceived but having met Germans I know that's totally not the case.

Your use of funny was appropriate here.

Your use of sarcasm is spot on though

Meh ... From their announcement:

we will hire backfills to replace employees who move on to new opportunities, and there are some targeted places where we will continue to hire people incrementally

Yeah, I don’t think it’s doom and gloom.

But I also don’t think it’s prudent to say “don’t worry about that layoff, you’ll get a new BigTech job tomorrow!”

Times are weird.

As long as Amazon isn't stopping the usual Q4 hiring spikes in operations, Amazon should overall be fine.

They're not really serious.

Recruiters are always willing to waste your time especially since their job is to provide their employers options, and besides they need their pay as well. If they aren't recruiting, then they aren't justifying their own salaries. So while you might be getting interview or connection requests, that doesn't correlate to actual hiring.

They mine you CV for info and use that for lead generation.

how so?

He's referring to third-party recruiters, who could use your resume (or information about who you've recently applied with, which they'll usually ask) to find potential clients. Doesn't make a lot of sense if we're talking Google or Amazon recruiters.

Correct.

Yeah, did the google interview late this summer and then they froze hiring. Got contacted by a recruiter from google last month. Told him I had already interviewed. He told me I should just wait until the freeze is over and not interview again.

The freeze has been over for weeks. I do an interview every week, and my team has two open roles right now.

Damn, ty for the heads up. Might be worth contacting my recruiter again then. Was for L4.

Can confirm - have seen 2 offers go out in the past week or so.

to be fair, I'm pretty sure Google was doing interviews even when things were completely frozen. I applied in May, did interviews in June/july, passed HC in July and was frozen out for months and months. Sounds like things are just starting to open back up.