Amazon Is Raising Its Hiring Bar for Some Tech Jobs [Video]

The company is bringing back “bar raisers” to the interview process for entry-level software engineer jobs, internally dubbed “SDE-1 (L4)” positions, according to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider.

Bar raisers have long been a peculiar part of Amazon’s hiring process. These people, typically from another team, serve as “objective third-party advisers” during job interviews and ask more holistic questions related to Amazon’s famed leadership principles to evaluate candidates.

But Amazon removed bar raiser interviews for entry-level engineering jobs and some non-engineering roles in recent years, in part due to the pandemic-fueled hiring boom, BI previously reported. That enabled Amazon to hire more aggressively, but also led to a drop in the quality of talent in some parts of the company.

“By reintroducing Bar Raisers into the AUTA interview process, the assessment of the Dive Deep and Earns Trust Leadership Principles (LPs) can be better incorporated,” the memo, from July, explained. “With this change, AUTA is addressing a direct …

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