Great clickbait. The first sentence provides crucial context - Amazon wants to hire 30K. So they had, on average, about 7 applications for every job.
That actually doesn't seem so great.
It's even less impressive when it's incredibly easy to get a ton of low-quality matches when recruiting.
So if Amazon execs wanted to tout a big number of applications they could just advertise these positions in a wildly aggressive way so as to get a ton of poor quality matches. And I'm willing to bet this is exactly what they did.
This actually makes me a lot less inclined to work at Amazon - it seems like they're just playing a numbers game, not really trying to recruit for cultural fit.
I wonder how many of these people will be laid off within 3 years of being hired.
That actually doesn't seem so great.
It's even less impressive when it's incredibly easy to get a ton of low-quality matches when recruiting.
So if Amazon execs wanted to tout a big number of applications they could just advertise these positions in a wildly aggressive way so as to get a ton of poor quality matches. And I'm willing to bet this is exactly what they did.
This actually makes me a lot less inclined to work at Amazon - it seems like they're just playing a numbers game, not really trying to recruit for cultural fit.
I wonder how many of these people will be laid off within 3 years of being hired.