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Liang Cheng's mobile phone reminded him that he had received a new email, interrupting his code code thinking. He picked up his phone and looked at it, "How come it's that headhunter again?" This is the third follow-up email he received this week after he explicitly rejected the Amazon headhunter on Monday.
For every Silicon Valley engineer with several years of work experience, in addition to the daily work messages that need to be processed in their mailboxes, the subscription reminders of various websites, and the various "hello" messages from the headhunters of major Silicon Valley technology companies are also an inevitable existence.
From the perspective of these engineers, it is actually a very happy thing to be "picked up" by these headhunters, because they bring themselves a new opportunity to jump jobs and raise salaries and promote jobs. But recently, many engineers have found that the headhunters represented by Amazon and Meta have launched a "wild bombardment" offensive against the target recruiters, and the headhunters have frequently recruited various strange moves, and the painting style has begun to go further and further.
"In order to recruit people, I feel that these headhunters have fought." An engineer told the Silicon Starman.
| headhunting "roll within a roll" – Amazon
Amazon, known as the "king of rolls", is also standing on the "top of the roll mountain" in Silicon Valley in the matter of recruiting people. Looking at a variety of technology companies, Amazon's headhunters are definitely the most active, hard-working, and fancy group. Let's take a closer look at their "combat" approach.
Tactic one: Cast a net in an all-round way and launch a general offensive on the number of "plucked" people. Browse the forums that engineers love to visit, and you will find that for the headhunters of the Amazon family, everyone's unanimous feeling is that the frequency of their emails is really too high! Open the mailbox, of all the headhunting emails, almost half of them come from Amazon, and it is the kind of headhunter that has a different headhunter every day to send you, and even several headhunters a day to send you at the same time. I feel that all of them have implemented the guiding spirit of "it is better to send three thousand by mistake than to let go of one".
How "sea" is amazon's man-sea tactic? Even "hai" to go directly to the Microsoft cloud CTO to do SDE 2 programmers. Late last year, Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Cloud Azure, posted a tweet with a screenshot of an email sent to him by Amazon's headhunter asking him if he was interested in amazon's SDE 2 job, and jokingly whether he should change his resume. In this regard, netizens joked that in the eyes of Amazon headhunters, everyone in the world is a candidate for SDE 2.
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Tactic Two: Title Party + Watch people cook for high-level players. A headhunter who doesn't have an email header is not a good headhunter, and this truth is fully reflected in Amazon. Leaving aside the "Quick Yes or No", the widely circulated headline of "400k + TC" has now become the talk of engineers after dinner, and now Amazon headhunters have evolved again, and are not only satisfied with using money to attract people.
For example, some headhunters follow the current affairs, and when they find that the meta financial report collapsed after the last quarter's financial report, they open the computer group email to the employees of the meta for the first time, and attach a damaged and eye-catching headline: "I heard that your stock fell 27% today... Let's not look at our Amazon jobs."
This operation of pouring salt on people's wounds made people look straight to the insider, so angry that some Meta engineers posted on Blind to call Amazon's headhunters to stop this operation, indicating that No matter how badly Meta fell, he could not be willing to work at Amazon.
Recently, some headhunters have also played the "watching people cook" more freely. For example, an engineer of Indian descent posted that he received an email from an Amazon headhunter with the headline "Namaste (Hello)" in Hindi. He asked amusedly and wordlessly, now that the headhunters were starting to start with race, had any Chinese engineers ever received an email with "Ni hao" as the beginning?
Tactic three: "Stalking", do not stop without contacting. Like Liang Cheng at the beginning of the article, many engineers said that even after explicitly rejecting the Amazon headhunting, they will continue to receive emails from The Amazon headhunter, and there seems to be a determination in these headhunters to talk to you. For example, an engineer gave a screenshot of one of his emails to the Silicon Starman, and after he hadn't replied to an Amazon headhunter, the headhunter sent him an email and said at the end of the article: "If you don't reply to me, I'll call you at noon on Friday." Note that the declarative sentence is used here, not the request question. The engineer had to immediately write an email to refuse.
A screenshot provided by an engineer to the silicon star people According to the silicon star people visit, for these Amazon headhunters a few times a day, or even a dozen email bombardment, many engineers will politely reply at the beginning, but then many people find that their reply is not meaningful at all, these headhunters will continue to harass them, make them overwhelmed, so later most of the engineers who have no willingness to jump jobs will directly ignore, block, and even report them.
| "roll" circle rookies - Meta In terms of the number of recruits and tricks, Amazon's headhunters have definitely dominated the recruitment team of technology companies in recent years. Recently, Meta, which has entered a bottleneck period of business growth, seems to have begun to roll up in the recruitment matter. After Meta's recent stock price crash, a programmer recently asked a question on Blind to see if Meta's hiring plan would be stalled by the company's business, and a group of employees from Meta replied: "Stagnation?" Our company is hiring like crazy lately. ”
And this trend is indeed traceable. An engineer said that after being rejected by Meta two years ago, he had never applied for Meta again, and no Meta headhunter came to him before, and in the past month, he received 3 recruitment emails from Meta headhunting, making him even wonder if Meta had a wave of departures.
Coincidentally, some Chinese engineers also posted on social platforms asking what happened to Meta recently, saying that after he had replied to Meta that he had no intention of jumping ship in the near future, Meta's headhunters still followed up with several emails per month. In the comments section, many people said that they had similar experiences recently: some people were directly "bombarded" by Meta's headhunter phone during meetings, some people were asked by Meta about their sense of position when they got a new job, some people were told after rejecting Meta Offer that packages could be added, and some people would receive emails on weekends...
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Many people feel that Meta's headhunters are starting to have a bit of an Amazon flavor. In this regard, some Meta employees anonymously broke the news on the forum that recently Meta is really short of people and it is more difficult to recruit people: on the one hand, due to the decline in the company's expectations and the rejection of PERM and other factors, some people have chosen to jump ship, on the other hand, Meta's metacosm is still in the opening stage, and a large number of engineers are needed to help with product research and development. In short, under the superposition of various factors, Meta's recruitment has recently rolled up. "I really can't, our current monthly KPI is directly linked to the number of people contacted, and the pressure is also very high." A Meta hunter post said.
| some people are going crazy, and some people are always cold, but throughout Silicon Valley, not every tech company is as hungry as Amazon and Meta. The headhunters of some large factories are often the dragons who see the beginning and the end, so that job seekers have to inquire around and ask for recommendations. Many engineers may receive several emails a day from Amazon and Meta headhunters, but it may take a year or two for a headhunter from Google or Apple to receive one. Some engineers said on the forum that Meta's headhunters tend to reply to messages quickly, but Microsoft and Google's headhunters always take a long time.
And even if there are occasional job seekers who are looked at by the headhunters of these high-cold factories, they often have to suffer the experience of being "picked" and running. After a brief chat with a job seeker that they feel inappropriate, or after having a better candidate, the headhunters of these big factories often don't explain too much to you, and they don't email you to explain or follow up, and they disappear like ghosts. And this situation of being "Ghosted" often appears in the headhunters of companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft. In addition to not being proactive, there are many engineers in various forums who complain that some of the headhunters of these companies are very "conceited" and "rude" to job seekers. Some will directly rebuke job seekers, some require employees to do that before the interview, and some will just hang the job seeker aside and reply quickly.
If some headhunters from large factories can still find the opportunity to be "picked up" by them, then a company like Netflix that can directly give you hundreds of thousands of dollars in basic salary is the object that job seekers need to work hard to "tie". Not only are their figures hard to find, but even if they are found, they are almost useless. Many job seekers say they have a chance to interview Netflix, often hanging up after a phone interview. In this regard, someone also launched a section on the forum, inviting everyone to summarize why they were rejected by Netflix's headhunters, and what the main points of the interview through the phone were.
According to a new study released by TalentLMS based on a survey of U.S. tech employees, 7 out of every 10 tech employees are currently considering a job hopping next year. But not every job seeker can be widely favored by headhunters, and when many engineers are bombarded by headhunters, there are also many engineers who ask how to get the attention of headhunters. So, where did you get the recent job postings come from, and did you have any interesting experiences? What qualities do you think you need to have in order to get the attention of headhunters? Welcome to leave a message to discuss!