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Decent Company
Digital Support Specialist (Former Employee), Huntington, WV –
The company itself is awesome to work for. I absolutely LOVED my job!!! But I was promised an at home position before I even did my training. After 2 weeks of training and 4 weeks of working on site, they were unable to fulfill this agreement.
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great place
Shipping/Receiving (Former Employee), Coffeyville, KS –
loaded trucks and secured trailers for shipment. Learned several things for working loading docks and stacking pallets. had to leave due to lay-offs
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Nice pay but very poor job security and labor is intensive
AFE Packing (Former Employee), Frankfort, KY –
Pros: good income, learned new things
Cons: no job security, they randomly let go of workers with no warning, they give false hope for your personal advancement
It was physically demanding job; we were all(co-workers) on our feet for 10-hour shifts with 2 15-min breaks (for relief and water) and 1 30-min break(for lunch). I learned how to do packaging slips for boxes, the shipping sticker, scanning the boxes into the database, packing the boxes and taping them up. The worse problem for me was that they told – more...  me I could come in extra days and then fire me the week before. No matter what they never tell you when they gonna start letting people go(they send you in circles on who to ask about it and you never seem to produce any answers). – less
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productive and fun workplace
Shipping/Receiving Clerk (Former Employee), Hazleton, PA –
Pros: very friendly staff
Cons: very strict with attendance policy
I had a great experience working for amazon.com. I learned how to get along with great people and had wonderful supervisors
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Long hours and tiring days
Picker (Former Employee), New Castle, DE –
Pros: good pay rate.
Cons: standing long hours
Amazon is not such a bad job especially if you need some money. Getting paid every week is worth it in the end. Working there twice, I learned of two different jobs and the standards to meet. Some of the co-workers are not some to obilge. There is always someone that may catch an attitude for no apparent reason. The hardest part of the job is standing – more...  for 9 hours with a 1 hour break split 3 ways. Overall it is something to act upon but after a while it may not be for some individuals. – less
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Fun fast paced work enviroment.
Warehouse Associate (Former Employee), Plainfield, IN –
Pros: free gatorade in the breakroom, and water machines throughout the building.
Cons: bad timing
I was hired to work at Amazon through Integrity Staffing Solutions, Amazon is their only client. I thought I was on my way to being hired as a Amazon associate. However despite being trained on Clamp-truck two days before I was let go on December 21st. It wasn't just me of the 250 employees working through Integrity all but 4 were let go that day.
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good place to work,
Operation Manager (Current Employee), Phoenix, AZ –
I managed 6 area managers and in charge of 200-500 associates. Have to manage all processes of the outgoing of shipping of customer orders. You must be very detailed and pro-active.
Most enjoyable part is dealing with all the people. help teach and train.
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fast pace atmosphere, high moral busting during peak season
Packer/Distribution (Former Employee), Whitestown, IN –
Pros: bonuses, 401k, benefits
Cons: short breaks, parking at peak season
*A typical day was 10 hours, 6pm-4:30am.

*I learned mainly what the company was all about as far as products and services offered to customers.

*management was pretty much just that managing, each and every situation,employee as needed. Informative to their employees and helpful.

*Co-workers were hard workers, different age groups and backgrounds. – more...  All about striving for perfection

*The hardest part of job was getting the rates needed to keep and maintain your job,

*The enjoyable part was the knowing of stability of employment and the ability to do job at pace needed, which made job easy and time move through out the shift. – less
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Fast paced challenging environment
Senior Human Resources Business Partner (Current Employee), Indianapolis, IN –
Pros: chance to step up and make a difference, in a growing company
Cons: always changing and morphing, nothing stays the same for very long.
Amazon is a great company that will challenge you everyday to your limit. Always striving to improve processes in order to enhance the customer experience that will fuel growth. Company is developing leaders to have engaging interactions with associates. Great pay for management but expect a challenging work life balance.
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Amazon a simple place
Amazon Distribution Warehouse (Former Employee), Whitestown, IN –
Pros: good managment
Cons: knee pains
My Daily duties at Amazon were simple. IF customers oreded parts my job was to simply take those orded parts and place them on the conveyor.
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Good for a high pased individual
Problem Solver/ Dock crew (Former Employee), Phoenix,AZ –
Pros: good benefits
Cons: hard company to work for
doing the same thing over and over, you learn a lot about the fullfillment aspect of companies, management is a little hard to get along with, hardest part of the job is being on your feet and walking about 20 miles a day as fast as you can,
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Structured and fast paced work enviroment
Shipping Clerk (Current Employee), Fernley, NV –
Pros: 4 hours in 4 days
Cons: location, i want to work in the santa barbara for school
I enjoyed working 40 hours a week and having the option to work over time.
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A NICE PLACE TO WORK BUT NO LIFE.
PICKER AND/OR PACKER (Former Employee), GOUROCK –
A nice job if you have no other life, as you spend most of your life on the wrong side of living.
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productive
Technical Support Technician (Former Employee), Mississauga, ON –
they links their employee skills with opportunities for growth in the company and helps employees understand how their work contributes to the firm's success. That I like the most which help us to develop our skills and company.
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Great place to work
Non Inventory Receiver (Current Employee), Charleston, TN –
Pros: easy job for the money
Cons: top out too low for hourly
Amazon is a great, fast growing company to work for. There are few dull moments.
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Seasonal
single item packer ('08), item sorter ('09) (Former Employee), Buckeye and 67th av, Phoenix, AZ –
Pros: overtime, 11 hour days, max. 60 hour per week is the only pro to the job
Cons: unrealistic work rates, poor parking setup, theft detection procedures delays
Amazon has the most unrealistic measurable "rates" (read: quotas) I have ever seen. If you have a certain number of items to be packed, sorted or pulled they want no excuses. example - - if you are required to process/sort , say, 500 items per hour but spend over half that time waiting for items to be brought to you they don't care, you are still expected – more...  to process 500 items in an hour. This is most often physically impossible. Likewise if you are packing orders they expect 60 (later 80) items packed per hour (including enclosures and outside labels) but do not allow for changing tape dispenser, problems with the air pillow machine, conveyor stoppage or lack of cartons needed to pack the items they don't want to hear about it.. Also for packing your work station changes from day to day, with different locations for tape dispenser, air pillow machine and cartons at each location. This makes improving on your rate nearly impossible. – less
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It great place to work there .
Packers (Current Employee), Breinigsville, PA –
Pros: n/a
Cons: short break ..
It 's a great place to work for Amazon..
It's only thing is short break that we have to rushing like crazy that we have ten mintes break and 25 mintes for lunch break that only thing I dislike this ..
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great place to work and shop.
Outbound line person/picker (Former Employee), Hebron, KY –
Pros: benefits
Amazon is an awesome place to work. the management staff is very open-minded.
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productive workplace
warehouse operative (Former Employee), packer –
since i worked the evening shift it was not as hard as i had been told, during a typical day i would have to be allocated to certain stations to deal with totes of items all selctive depending on the order that had came thorugh, i would then pack them in boxes in a certain style and but them on a belt that would take it to shipping/loading areas. i – more...  learnt how to hit targets and also maintain a constant rythem of work. the management would be great as they would have regualr meetings and take in anthing we would say as long as it was reasonable. i was congratulated on being a hard worker and coming second highest productive worker withing the seasonal workers. the hardest part of the job for me was packing the big boxes and hit targets at the same time , but the managemnet were very understanding and knew that it takes longer to pack them and the most enjoyable part of the job was being congratulated for our hard work – less
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very productive
Register/Cashier Exp (Former Employee), newark, de –
Pros: good lunches
Cons: short breaks
great place to work.
good people
very well oriented
good invironment
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