> There is always more meat for the grinder. You either prefer the environment, or believe you have no better option.

Amazon is the only FAANG that regularly reaches out to me with recruiting spam, and I am not located in a sexy tech hub nor do I have an on-trend resume. I've never responded, but I imagine their recruiting pipline counts on a combination of prestige and ignorance.

Apologies for the side question here, but what is an "on-trend" resume? This is the first time (in general, on/off HN) I've seen that particular phrase.

These days that means AI, a few years ago it was crypto, python data science, or React, before that it might have been a server framework or angular.

Just whatever is considered hot.

Actually I heard from a friend that worked there that eventually Amazon will run out of people to hire in the US who haven’t previously worked at Amazon, tho this includes warehouse workers.

Look at their H1B visa data and hiring in India (at least with regards to corp jobs, not US warehouse workers). They absolutely could find these folks in the US who don't need sponsorship.

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=amazon

> Amazon H1B Salary 2024

> 5848 records found; Median Salary is $144800. 7 percents of the salary are above $200K, 38 percents of the salary are between $150K and $200K, 43 percents of the salary are between $100K and $150K, 11 percents of the salary are less than $100k

Is this H1B visa fraud? Good question for USCIS and Congress. How Amazon feels about worker rights and regulation, as well as regulation as a whole, is a bit of a known quantity at this point.

https://www.uscis.gov/scams-fraud-and-misconduct/report-frau...

If they hire from india on h1b they are almost guaranteed that person wouldn't be able to leave for amazon for a very long time if they apply for a perm process.

They are getting that retention premium that won't be possible if they hire locally.

Which is the reason for the h1b fraud, but this also begs the question of why amazon has been able to get away with this strategy for so long.

Apparently Amazon agrees with your friend, at least as far as warehouse workers go.

> Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people to hire in its US warehouses by 2024, according to leaked Amazon internal research from mid-2021...

> In the past, that churn wasn’t a problem for Amazon — it was even desirable at some points. Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos saw his warehouse workforce as necessary but replaceable, and feared that workers who remained at the company too long would turn complacent or, worse, disgruntled...

https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-wareh...

They will automate their way out of the warehouse worker problem. The only reason they still employ human workers is that they are still cheaper than robots for some tasks.

Amazon steadily promotes packaging standards that create standard boxes/packs amenable to fast robo read/sort/grip/handle, so they are looking to this.

There was a leaked memo showing that Amazon itself is aware of this risk to their business:

https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-wareh...