[jlawer]

The CTO of Azure has no responsibility to an Amazon recruiter. While the recruiter could likely be identified if you searched hard enough, most people aren't crazy enough to care.

This is a teachable moment. Amazon shouldn't engage in these practices and should manage the people they employ so this doesn't happen.

If this was an innocent mistake, you shrug, cop a few jokes with your co-workers and deal with it. No one is going to sack you solely over an incident like this unless you've been going against a strict policy.

[p0rkbelly]

This has nothing to do with MSFT or AMZN. A good CTO is at any company provides an example of what to aspire to become. They are mentors and teachers to the technical community as a whole.

[lightbendover]

This has everything to do with Amazon. Recruiting there needs to fix their archaic sourcing strings.