On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:28:40PM -0700, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: > > On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 14:12 US/Pacific, Andrew Wyllie wrote: > > >that Amazon hired 5 of the 300 people they had come in for interviews > >over the last few months. > > > >I'm not quite sure how to interpret that > > How about that they filled 5 open positions and that they got so many > resumes that they interviewed 300 people to decide?
Having talked to a few hiring managers at Amazon and Yahoo (where I work), this is likely the case. All the big internet companies (Google and eBay, too, I'm told) have this problem now. They need more people, but they want people who: 1. have very specific skills or experience 2. are very good That's the way things are right now. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/
