In fulfilling online orders, Amazon.com Inc. is all about expediency. The fewer people involved the better. But when it comes to filling higher-level jobs, the e-commerce giant is in no rush—and it has a gantlet of people, dubbed "bar raisers," who must sign off on would-be hires.
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