I loved the factor of promoting from within. Although, you will have to go through an interview process which is no problem since I moved up within the company. I think it's a great tool to know if the candidate is ready to take on the responsibility. Although, it would be nice if they were to use recommendation from current manager or processes you've successful implemented across all shifts within your department.
- This may be a con to others but I was fine with addition responsibility. I was planning on applying for a high position which would require additional responsibilities and wanted to ensure I was up to the task. Management gave me a second department to run/supervise. The person who was running the other department was on a leave for quite sometime before he quit. During his leave, I was asked take on that department in his absence. When he quit, upper management decided since I was able to run 2 departments smoothly that his position would no longer exist and the position I had would absorb all the additional responsibly. You would technically run 2 different department, but still remain with the same pay.
- Con for others would also be working long hours and a lot of overtime between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
- Amazon is metrics driven company and when interviewing most candidates I've noticed that more than half of my interviewers during my time at Amazon were liked mind in that sense. So although one may have amazing soft skills and will need that especially with dealing with associates if you weren't good at figuring out rate, production and volume (which is basic math and can be taught) your can fail your interview. Only one of my interviewers failed me because I asked for a calculator to calculate the rate.
I am a former only because I was moving and where I was had no Amazon centers, but if there were I would definitely work for them again!
