I suggest y'all do the same. This super-wealthy company is failing to provide for its less-fortunate employees, so we more-fortunate potential employees have to create an incentive for them to do so.
If you're expecting less dialog between candidate and recruiter, just pipe LeetCode participants right into an automated onboarding process, no recruiter required. This would be a very Amazon thing to do!
When you go to McDonanld's to buy some food you have already been convinced to go there through some other means. The cashier only needs to know how to take your order. There's no selling that needs to be done besides maybe asking you if you want to supersize it.
And calling someone's comment embarrassing is embarrassing. See, I just did it and now I'm embarrassed.
OK, that's fair. But every aspect of the company or the part of the company they want you to work for?
This is the introduction phase. After this you talk to someone who can get you more information and more information.
Sure, you're aware of FAANG companies, but you're not aware of their HR practices, their healthcare, etc. In other words your knowledge is likely shallow, and that's what first line contacts expect.
In an interview, you are expected to know what the company is about.
And once the recruiter gave an answer are you then done and ready to talk about the role? This seems like a setup more than a sincere question.
As far as being ready to talk about the role, asking these questions is talking about the role, so I don't understand what you're getting at here.
It's not because they don't think people don't want all these things stuck at home..
Its because the entire warehouse process has been turned inside out and expanded with constant safety measures, wipe downs, disinfectants, etc. This slows down everything.
Amazon is doing a ton, and not out of altruism, but because it's the pragmatic thing to do.
The workers need to be safe so they don't quit and so they don't get sick.
We are just not bragging about it (internally or externally). And neither am I, I just feel the need to defend it from the narrative that the company is sitting on its billions while letting the mass of warehouse staff get sick and die, or whatever you are implying.
Not true. They are still shipping non-essentials just with longer delivery times.
Now, objectively speaking, Amazon could have done far better in prevention when this started. Why is it that just recently they introduced temperature checks? That’s should have been a -day one- (pun intended) measure. They were doing that in China months ago.
If you don't want to work there just politely decline the offer. Don't take it out on someone just trying to put food on their family's table.
That's like going to McDonald's and asking the cashier if the hamburgers used killed cows in them. And when they say yes, say, "I'm not eating here then!". It's a show.
Sure, it’s a tad pretentious (honestly it’s the most pretentious thing I’ve read all day lol) on her part, but whatever, no one is perfect. It’s all part of the game.
I was not always this way. I interviewed there twice and was rejected both times. It was disappointing at the time, but I consider it a blessing now because I know that I am not ambitious / competitive to the necessary degree I would need to be to do well there.
I still buy things on Amazon, and I consume a lot of content on their wholly-owned subsidiary Twitch, but I do not believe that a ruthless focus on the customer necessarily means ruthlessly treating employees and contractors to as close to the breaking point as permitted by law. For Amazon specifically, I’ve started looking more towards companies like Costco and NewEgg for what they carry. I’ve done the same with other tech companies too: I only have Google for Gmail, and a silent Twitter account that I do nothing on besides update passwords and 2FA if I see the day where my voice counts for something.
If this happens enough times, perhaps corporations may be incentivized to change how they do things.
I don’t know. Perhaps that’s where we really are in life, that so few of us can justify working at a place for any other reason than money.
(not saying you should feel good about yourself for this either though)