Amazon Recruits Face “Bar Raisers” Amazon implemented the bar raisers program since the beginning of company’s life, with the purpose of eliminating any “cultural misfits” and help to increase company’s diversity in the fields of logistics, tablet manufacturing and television production. (Jones, George, 2016, pp. 376). According to Valerie Frederickson, “they don't just hire the best of what they see; they're willing to keep looking and looking for the right talent" (Jones, George, 2016, pp. 376). Amazon bar raisers program works by having several full-time employees from diverse teams to interview job candidates for a variety of different roles to sign off on those candidate. By implementing this hiring feature, the company is able to evaluate if candidates that not only have the skills necessary to make it at Amazon, but also to improve their chances of having a long term employees as well as who fits with the corporate culture. …show more content…
Therefore it is imperative for Amazon to preserve a balance between efficiently hiring employees to reach growth targets and making sure these employees are the brightest, most competent and culturally suitable individuals. According to John Vlastelica, an early Amazon human-resources that help develop the program, states that the program was created to help them find someone “who can adapt to new roles in the company, not just someone who can fill the role that's vacant" (Jones, George, 2016, pp. 376). Potential advantage for the company is this process can be used to validate the range of skills highlighted by the candidate in his or her resume. An additional potential advantage may also be that there is a greater chance that the individual will remain with the company for a longer period of time, since the skills and culture have been “vetoed” by the bar