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What's your take on TOASTMASTERS?
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How's the scope in SFDC/Salesforce QA ?
Got an interview request from Amazon for Sr. Digital Marketing Manager. I have been interviewed by and worked for multiple big names like Mcafee, Meta, Microsoft but never by Amazon. I’m wondering how’s their hiring process, what kind of questions and tasks are waiting for me, how many steps are there etc.
Thank you in advance, everyone!
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I think your boss likely wasn’t aware of the policy when they agreed to be a reference. My firm has a similar policy. I think it must be fairly common for people not to want to use someone at their current company as a reference.
That policy is very common and not known by all internally. Sadly, puts all in a bind but is the litigious world we live in nowadays. Experienced hiring folks at employers and recruiters will know this, you may have to remind some. In fact, I have not even been asked for a reference in a number of job changes for this reason. Plus, as someone who does hiring, it’s hard to trust references other than objective confirmation of prior employment (it’s a waste of my time given the extremely high likelihood references would only be glowing thus not balanced).
Its like a liability issue thing. Policies now days in most companies wont allow active employees to be references.
I asked a former workmate to be one of my references. She said it was against company policy. I thought she would do it anyway, but she refused.
That's a tough one - without intending to, it was basically asking this person to jeopardize their job for you because they would most likely lose their job if word ever got out.
Agree with all the above. It's unfortunate, but fairly standard. It's not going to be a red flag given most potential employers will have similar policies in place at their companies and will understand why you're unable to get a current reference.