alt Hacker NewsYeah Amazon is massively struggling to hire due to the extremely bad reputation of Andy Jasshole and the RTO 5 policy, and this is not exclusive to AI talents, but is the case for every single role. We have had reqs open for a year in my team and nobody wants to join.
Truthfully, I don't think anyone would recommend their acquaintances to join Amazon right now.
That said, Amazon is actually winning the AI war. They're selling shovels (Bedrock) in the gold rush.
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It's not like it had a good reputation earlier either (as a company, perhaps less problematic as an employer). But if I was offered multiple FAANG positions because I had some really attractive skill set, then I'd want a _lot_ more to work at Meta or Amazon than Netflix or Google, just based on my view of the corporate evilness. It's probably completely unfounded, but the fact I have that feeling just shows they haven't taken care of their brand.
Amazon having trouble to hire I think it is a well deserved result. I hope they never hire great talent again. Lately I heard they're looking for contract hires, which seems to fit their cheapness and lack of ability to attract talent.
It's almost funny how they just don't give a shit about being an attractive employer. They never have. Going back to 2002, it's always been "if you don't like it, there's the door."
It seems that they just don't care about the high turnover.
Bedrock? It's like a vibe-coded "router" app. It really doesn't provide anything that is not provided by countless other companies.
AWS is falling behind even in their most traditional area: renting compute capacity.
For example, I can't easily run models that need GPUs without launching classic EC2 instances. Fargate or Lambda _still_ don't support GPUs. Sagemaker Serverless exists but has some weird limits (like 10GB limit on Docker images).
Bedrock is terrible and usage is not high, they cant even serve the anthropic models at scale.
> the RTO 5 policy
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure this[0] is what RTO 5 is.
[0] https://www.phoenixcontact.com/en-pc/products/bolt-connectio...
I have had multiple recruiter reachouts from AWS who obviously read my resume and are interested in short cutting me into a senior role at AWS doing interesting things, but at this point AWS reputation is so bad I don’t even entertain such offers.
For senior in-demand talent you are not desperate, and really only desperate people go to work for AWS as they don’t have any better options at a company which respects their employees.