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So I've had 2 hiring managers and several recruiters from Amazon reach out to me about applying for some open positions with the company (android). I completed the coding assessment and now they want me to go through a round of 5 hour interviews next week. Is there a good chance I'll be hired if engineering managers are reaching out to me? I'm really not sure how badly I want to work for them and I don't want to be laid off months after being hired on. Anyone know what Amazon hiring is like?
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I’ve struggled with so many heavy infatuations before and a friend recommended this. Hope it helps anyone else out there who’s gone through this or may be going through this right now.
Today it was technical telephonic round from Accenture. Previous to this there was telephonic conversation with HR. So, today the technical round was good. I just want to know how many round more it will be? The technical person said you will get a call from HR. Should I expect will get offer letter soon?Accenture
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Agreed. I was set to lateral to a firm that assured me they had the cash to weather the storm. Ultimately, I backed out, and the firm I was supposed to go to slashed salaries by 15%. Thank heavens I went with my gut.
Outstanding non-move!
So many of you write about the anxiety of this situation. Would it help you to be told “this situation is so fluid and difficult we may have to cut pay, furlough and/or lay off in the coming months.” Besides I don’t think the issue is reserves to weather the storm. The question is what level of cuts in pay are the equity partners willing to take to preserve jobs for associates and staff. In biglaw, that will vary alot from partner to partner but you know that the top producers at these firms didn’t get there because of their altruism.
A bit more transparency would be nice. Being keyed into certain projections and models makes us all feel more valuable and allows us to make life adjustments necessary to better weather this. For those of us who lease, for example, looking at the real estate market and deciding to downsize if we can and further modifying other spending habits.
Let me assure everyone that it is significantly worse than you think. Plan accordingly.
100p. Just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
It is interesting because my roommate works at a regional firm and his firm has continued to pay associates their full salaries and has not implemented layoffs. Because it is a smaller firm, they are much more transparent about what to expect the upcoming months and what types of events would trigger different approaches. Meanwhile biglaw seems to be a black box. The financials (and decisions) are so opaque that I would never know if the firm had enough reserves (assuming it has some) to make it another month or another year.
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FWIW some firms do carry cash on their balance sheets - we had $125M as of March 1 and as a result haven’t implemented any cuts or furloughs.
For example...
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We also don’t know how long clients will keep paying bills and providing new work.
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See ATL about this. There's an article on law.com about partner defections creating domino and toppling effects for a number of less profitable firms.