Leaked Document Shows How Amazon Ended Up Over-Listing Thousands of Jobs

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The document alleges that Amazon listed three times as many job openings on one Amazon Web Services team than approved for.

reveals that Amazon put hiring power in the hands of managers, and that the company had little oversight on the hiring process until 2022. This apparently

led managers to recruit and hire more employees than they were approved to. Insider cites a figure from the document: Amazon Web Services posted 24,988 job openings in 2022, but the department was only approved to recruit for 7,798 positions. The document addresses Amazon’s lack of governance as an issue that led to the disconnect between job listings and open positions.

“This enabled over-hiring in certain cost centers and contributed to span of control and level ratio defects,” the leaked document said as quoted by Insider.An anonymous former recruiting manager told Insider that Amazon’s lack of oversight in both job postings and the interview process led to over-hiring as managers tried to “squeeze people in where they could.” The source also told Insider that the job listings were meant to be actively filled. Amazon’s blabe a signal that the company was riding the high of unsustainable pandemic-fueled growth, an attitude that has backfired as the company faces widespread layoffs.

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