Amazon Is Pausing Hiring for Corporate Workforce

  • Man, it sure seems like the fed announcement yesterday spooked a lot of tech companies, eh? The thing I don't get is that the federal funds rate was also being raised in the mid 2010s, yet there was no corporate freakouts: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

    Is the root cause of this really just overhiring during the pandemic? Or is there something else at play here?

  • What is "corporate workforce"? I assume it does not include hourly (warehouse) staff. But AWS? With 75% of corporate profits and high growth I wouldn't imagine they'd want to skimp there.

  • https://archive.ph/NEQJr

  • Over the past two years I've gotten regular AWS recruitment emails, in fact for the last few months it's been every two weeks (from different people each time!) I responded that I had left tech, but if Amazon Studios was interested in an unrepped screenwriter I could be the guy. :P Some responded positively initially, though none followed up past the first reply.

    I'll miss responding to those for a while.

  • > Andy and S-team decided this week to pause on new incremental hires

    > We still intend to hire a meaningful number of people in 2023

    Am I missing something, or are these contradictory?

  • I had an interview yesterday somewhere where they said they were really excited to move me forward, only to find out today that they're putting the position on hold :(