Hiring at Amazon scale
(note: none of this is confidential information and can also be found elsewhere on the internets.)When you are the size of Amazon and growing at the rate of Amazon you start running into some issues... how does one hire at a pace like we do?The compound that with the whole HQ2 discussion and you'll quickly realize that this is a hard problem.When you are hiring a few people you have one set of problems. My group has right now 10 open positions for programmers. (looking? ping me!) We are one of hundreds of groups -- each with open head count.We've gotten to the point where we have on-site interviews without phone screens sometimes... because automating the phone screen saves time I suppose. My newest co-worker barely had an interview... but it scales... I guess.(re: co-worker -- she's cool -- not a commentary on her, but the process.)