In the past month, I've been contacted by three different Amazon recruiters for various positions, ranging from Data Engineer to AI/ML to SDE.

For the Data Engineer contact, I responded that I was interested about 90 minutes after the initial message. I was ghosted, and a month later, I received a message stating, "I don't have that position any longer."

For the AI/ML position, I indicated that my AI/ML experience is a bit light. They asked for my resume, and then I was ghosted. Honestly, that's understandably not a perfect fit, but an acknowledgment of receipt would have been the professional approach.

Then I was contacted for an SDE position. In fact, I received the same form email twice within a 30-minute span, which is never a great sign. I put time on their calendar and sat on Chime, but no one joined. I emailed while waiting and received a response 45 minutes later with no explanation other than, "Are you available tomorrow?" I said yes, they proposed a time, I agreed, and they ghosted me again.

So that's three strikes. Arguably, this is the most unprofessional and incompetent recruiting division in the industry. Am I to assume a subpar hiring process also leads to a subpar workforce? Being the first and most basic step in the interview process, this is a really bad look for Amazon.

You can't get to interview questions without a competent recruiter to get candidates into interviews.