To other readers - this post is 92% typical post-interview review, but the last 8% is a big WTF on Amazon's part. So... if you're short on time, feel free to skip to the end.
The article is suspicious as an Amazon employee. The recruiter would never talk offer in the final interview, there is at least a day+ afterwards before feedback is submitted by the interviewers and they meet to discuss the candidate. Only after that would there be offer talk (assuming the interview was positive). The silence part is sometimes possible when recruiters bail out suddenly and don't hand things off, unfortunately that seems to be an area in tech companies where people move companies every 6 months.
My favorite company: Convergent. We made and offer, or rejection, before the candidate left the building. The last one to talk was HR, who was actually stalling as the interviewers met and compared notes.
I don't understand why this can't be the norm. E.g. Most auto shops have you make an apptmt for routine work; Midas does it while you wait. What's the point in the delay? Its the same work to do it NOW instead of later, when you've forgotten your first impressions and maybe even their face.
Oh yeah. I, normally, put the company which does that in my blacklist. I give bonus points if it is a small startup which interviews a couple of people a week and still can't manage to do it. Extra bonus points if they contacted me first. Yes, it does happen.
Once a person from a local startup suggested to send him my CV at a meetup, 2 more people from they same company suggested to do the same. I got invited to come over, was told that there is no actual position so they just would see if I could fit in somewhere. Sounded very positive at the end. Sent a follow up thank you note. Never heard back.
I've personally interviewed a substantial number of candidates (phone screens and in-person interviews) for Amazon.
Amazon is very prompt about responding to candidates, but no decisions are ever made until the interviewers have a chance to sit down in a room together and discuss. So I don't know how the recruiter at the end of this account could have said half the things he is supposed to have said.
This account sounds like a specific recruiter made a series of huge errors and just kept on compounding those errors with bad decisions. That or there are some factual inaccuracies in the account.
In any case, my primary point is that I wouldn't write off an entire company due to what are likely the mistakes of a single individual, the recruiter who is supposed to be communicating with you.
In any case, my primary point is that I wouldn't write off an entire company due to what are likely the mistakes of a single individual,
Well, actually, I would. Because (being as it seems to keep happening, over and over again, in big companies and in small companies) clearly it's not the mistake of a single individual. The fault lies with the mindset of those who create the hiring culture in the company at large.
And the shabby treatment frequently dealt out to candidates may not be entirely consciously intended, but still, it is no "mistake." It is a perfectly predictable outcome of the hiring culture in these companies.
Totally correct. For me the interview/negotiating process is not finished until I walked into the office on my first day of work. Prior to that, anything can happened.
