Do people get emails from Amazon, saying you already applied couple years back but
there was no luck, but hey we have these jobs now, are you interested?

Or this is some kind of scam 🤣

Yes. I worked there, and I still get those emails. They're sent out when they have a hiring push and you're in a target demographic for selective hiring. They're only scams if they come from a non Amazon email

@SortOfTested thanks for the details .. why did you leave them?

I guess it really depends if you did apply a few years back or not.

@FahadAlt
Lots of reasons. The average tenure is less than 4 years, and there's a reason for that.

The pay is okay, but only just. Most of the pay is stock and can't be fully realized for 4 years. 160 base doesn't go as far as you'd think in a city this expensive with kids. It's not unlivable, but it's not great comparatively. You can make more than that at most area startups, Google, Facebook, HBO, etc. The path upwards stagnated early, so unless you have no passion for engineering and jump to management, you'll have to fight hard to make principal engineer.

The work-life is rough. It's isolating, solitary with only rare moments of human contact and little connection. They are the meme of silent developers with noise cancelling headphones. Team lunches only happen when someone arrives or leaves, there's usually monthly on call weeks that will have you up all hours of the night on teams.

The environment discourages anything other than nose to the grindstone. Review cycles are rough, and not really guaranteed. I've seen top performers one cycle get PIP'd the next due to manager shift. Most people jump teams at least once every two years due to this, so team composition tends to flux outside of the core team that incubated the service.

The work they have isn't the most innovative if you aren't tapped for prior success at another big tech co. Usually you'll come into a project well underway and whereas you'll have ownership, the direction will have long since been established. There's potential to incubate, but it's hard to leverage without burning significant additional hours deaing with the pervasive realpolitik.

Tl;Dr : quality of life

@cmarshall10450 I did apply couple years ago

@SortOfTested Thank you for your explanation, its understandable.