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Although Amazon has instituted a hiring freeze and layoffs are probably on their way, I went through the loop for a security engineer position at AWS. Before I attended the final interviews, Amazon placed the hiring freeze and called me to ask if I wanted to go ahead or cancel my application. I decided do go ahead Right now I'm waiting for their response and the position I applied to changed from "under consideration" to "no longer under consideration". Thoughts?
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If you didn't get it you didn't get it. Who cares why? Let it go. I doubt you were not even considered but given in interview. Because as a business, I lovvvvve spending time and resources on something I KNOW isn't going to produce a return, love it, would do it every day if I could. Sorry for the news flash that businesses do waste money but ... mostly try NOT tooooooo so they can... STAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY in business. You're not a considered candidate? More times than not.... not going to even bother talking to you, point blank. So... you're most likely over thinking it.
Not at the company I work for
We definitely don’t mandate a certain number. It’s possible that you were in consideration but then someone who interviewed a bit before you knocked it out of the park and became the preferred candidate. Too late to cancel your interview but…
As a HM I try really hard to keep each interview separate, but we are as human as everyone else and if an amazing candidate came in it would be tougher for follow-ons to impress.
I’m not sure either.
Also how do you know they hired their own relative?
Its a hyperbole. It’s prolly someone they offered the job for, i dont get why they even interviewed me if i am not even being considered.
Cynically, it could be that they’re mandated to interview a set of “diverse” applicants before they can fill a position. Would that apply to you (I.e. are you a POC, disabled, a veteran, etc.)?
Wells Fargo got in trouble for that recently: https://www.reuters.com/legal/wells-fargo-must-face-lawsuit-over-sham-job-interviews-2024-07-29/
It does apply to me, so could be the case, my interviewer was a dei hire himself, amazon is majority poc.
Funny thing is, my recruiter haggled with me about tc expectations, basically low balling me, even tho i told her, let me first talk to the HM and learn about the expectations for the role. Amazon has a cooldown period if you get a not inclined feedback, thats why it pissed me off since the interview was unfair and now all other HM will see that bs feedback.
What makes you ghost a candidate?