[agoldis]

I read your comment and I'd say you are completely right.

The hiring event is sponsored by Amazon's divisions, it's a massive recruitment - like, we need 30 new developers - go end get em. There was no single person from the actual team I was working for at the interviews.

After I passed the interviews, I was told that they still don't know about the specific job because organizing the paperwork for relocation would take few months, until then many things can change.

As soon as papers arrived I insisted to talk to my future manager (I verified after I started that I was the only person who did that - other people were just assigned a position within a team). It was too late thought - I was already committed to move.

I do take responsibility setting wrong expectations, and as you pointed out (and the article states) it is my experience and observations of what happened.