Amazon’s first job ad: Jeff Bezos’ gruelling standards revealed

San Francisco: Amazon has faced flak for gruelling standards it set for its employees from time to time and the first job listing now doing the rounds on social media has revealed that the founder of the company, Jeff Bezos, always sought only the best.

When the job listing was posted to a public message board on August 22, 1994, Amazon was known as Cadabra. The opening was for software developers.

“Well-capitalised start-up seeks extremely talented C/C++/Unix developers to help pioneer commerce on the internet,” the message reads.