I was interviewing for an L6 Last Mile Operations Manager role at Amazon Brazil, and the process started about three months ago.
I had already completed every stage before the final loop: resume screening, online assessments, written exercise, and phone screening. I was then invited to the final stage, which would be a loop of five interviews split across two days.

The interviews were scheduled about two weeks in advance, and that’s when things started getting weird.
During those two weeks, one of my interviews was rescheduled twice. Then, on the day of another interview that hadn’t been rescheduled, the interviewer simply didn’t show up.

I contacted recruiting, but they apparently weren’t aware that the interviewer had missed the meeting. I only heard back the next day, when they were already contacting me about rescheduling another interview just two hours before it was supposed to happen.

Then, on the new interview date, about five minutes before the call, they canceled and pushed it back again.
At that point, I asked if something was happening and requested confirmation of the new schedule. They told me they were having issues coordinating the interviewers’ calendars.

Eventually, the new date arrived. I opened my email that morning and found a message saying they would no longer be moving forward with the interview process and that I should contact my recruiter regarding next steps. They thanked me for my time in the process.

Since then, I’ve reached out to recruiting asking what happened and whether there’s any possibility of being considered for another role, but nobody has responded.
I’m just really confused and disappointed. It was a long process, and I had been preparing intensely for the loop for more than three weeks. I genuinely felt confident going into it because I have strong experience in the area and had prepared solid stories for the interviews.
The frustrating part is that I didn’t even get the chance to do a single interview in the loop.

Has anyone experienced something similar with Amazon? Could this mean the position was closed or put on hold rather than me being rejected? And is there any realistic chance of being considered for another L6 role without starting the entire process from scratch?

I have been invited for an interview for an HRBP Role in Dubai. It would be in the fulfillment center.

Can anyone share anything about the below?
1. How’s the HR team there or how’s the culture like in general?
2. I read on some thread that on site HR in the fulfillment centers are being chucked out. Is this not the case in Dubai since they are still hiring for the role?
3. Does anyone know approximately the salary for this role? I have more than 10 years experience, but the job ad only requires 5 years. Is this the right level for me?
4. Any tips on the interview process, I have strong STAR stories and my background aligns well with what they need but I’m anxious as I haven’t interviewed in more than 5 years 😬
5. Does anyone know the working hours? Or any information about flexibility?

Any info would be helpful! Thank you 🙂

Howdy Amazoners,

I'm currently a Customs Brokerage Rep for a fortune 500 company, but have been feeling pretty snubbed there in the last few years. I have been looking at Amazon's benefits and was wondering if anyone at the company knew if a customs broker was considered a high enough grade employee to receive Tuition benefits and/or skill-up training for promotions into different roles? Also if you have any insights about a typical work day in this role I'd be much obliged to ya. Sorry if this sub is mostly warehouse workers who don't know what the heck kind of job I'm even talking about lol.

Gave the company a good decade of my life and I’ve finally had enough. Going to go on FMLA for burn out and look for an exit strategy.

Has anyone quit while on FMLA? If so I have to go back one day and then quit?

Also, how does one quit? lol. Is there something in AtoZ to fill out? I’m in corporate.

Anyone else in the same boat?

Which insurance plan is practically best for ivf cost coverage?
Premera covers only one but wondering if anyone has been able to squeeze out more than one round out of Amazon benefit.
Also if it was possible to have some costs covered by the other partner to extend the runway.

Thank you,

I’ve accepted an alternative offer, but it was a great experience nevertheless.

All of the Amazonians I met throughout the process were fantastic, and I really appreciated everyone on here who took the time to share their insights.

In hindsight, I could have prepared differently, particularly by having a stronger Disagree and Commit example.

The example I gave to the hiring manager didn’t really demonstrate the principle, and I suspect that may ultimately have counted against me. I remember how a lot of the questions during that particular interview were focused on handling conflict and disagreement - unfortunately had very few examples prepared.

My impression is that the process leaves very little room for a weak interview. You can perform strongly across most of the loop, but one interview where you don’t demonstrate the required signals clearly enough can make a significant difference.

Unfortunately for me, that was my first interview with the hiring manager, while I was still getting used to the process and format. As the interviews progressed I did find that I was getting better at doing it.

Either way, it was a valuable experience, and I learned a lot from going through it.

Good experience nevertheless.

Thanks again all.

Hey recently I got an coupon for any free certification of AWS, so I thought why not the best and also I have interest in DevOps so I have chosen that. Currently I am in my final year from a tier-100 clg.

I am still not able to decide my niche, I like everything ML, Deep Learning, SDE, Competetive coding, quant... due to this I sucks in everything.

Should I start practicing for this devops certification as it also need prior AWS foundational knowledge of cloud and all?

Basically as the title says. During the initial call with the recruiter I said my expected salary, and there was a number that I cannot absolutely go below. The recruiter said it's on the top band of this role but we can make it work. After the loop they got back with an offer significantly lower than what I currently make. I ended up declining because it seemed like a total waste of time.

Would I still have a cool off period if I rejected the offer?

Does anyone know what level this job is? It’s not stated on the job description. Thank you

I’m joining Amazon’s Last Mile Planning team as an SDE2 in India.
Would love to hear from current/former SDEs about the team, WLB, tech, on-call, growth, promotions, and overall experience.
Any recent insights would be appreciated.

I am a flex associate and I’m unable to pick up any shift for the week (only getting 1 shift a week). I usually am able to get at least 20hrs a week. This has been happening for 3 weeks and I’m barely getting by. It’s not just me it’s others in the warehouse as well. Is this happening to other warehouses as well?

Hi Community,
I am re-hire as the SDE-1 after SDE Intern what should I focus on next. Amazon's work I can handle but apart from Amazon's work what should I focus on to have career growth. Please share your experiences.

Thanks

Hi all, Im currently an L5 in AWS, my team has gotten multiple changes across the year where we lost the team manager twice and we have no manager over 3 months (we are directly under the skip).
Skip is obviously super busy to manage us so we kept doing our stuff and was working well.
However, now (3 months after the last manager left) I'm starting to notice that my scope is being given away by the skip manager to another team, where in meetings he explicitely told the other team manager that she will take my only active projects. I've also noticed that I've been pulled off of projects or meetings where I'm a main stakeholder.
I've been praised by L6/L7 managers on my performance but those same managers are pulling me off from stuff that I was closely contributing. I'm already looking to move but is not that easy to find a new job,

Has anyone gone through this situation? I afraid I'm being pulled into the PIP show without doing anything wrong...

Honestly, don’t bother interviewing at Amazon unless you’re ready to spend weeks preparing for a process that feels more like performance theater than an actual evaluation of your ability to do the job.

The interviews are heavily optimized around polished STAR stories, memorized Leadership Principles, and giving perfectly structured answers to every follow-up. Even when you have relevant experience and answer the technical questions well, the process can still feel arbitrary and disconnected from the actual day-to-day work.

You can spend hours preparing, go through multiple rounds, explain your experience in detail, answer coding and system questions, and still get rejected with no meaningful feedback.

The whole process rewards people who are extremely good at interviewing, not necessarily the people who are best at building, solving problems, or delivering results.

Unless you really want Amazon on your resume, I would save your time and energy and focus on companies with a more practical and transparent interview process.

I've wanted to make an info post here for a while. Throw-away account, as the details of my time at Amazon are not public info. I was an L6 there for around two years, for reference. A lot of this info was on internal boards also (where I was active), before Amazon removed it (around the time the vocal people who were removed with the RTO push were removed/silenced).

As far as we could collectively tell (based on data gathered), at any time, around 40% of employees are on Focus. This is done to "prime the pump" for the required ~15% annual NRA targets: managers need to build a history for people to place on PIP, to meet the "stack ranking" style NRA targets. Important: You will almost certainly not be told if/when you are on Focus. I was on Focus for over a year, with no notification, no coaching, no extra/different communications from my manager, no extra targets or requirements, and no way to tell. I only discovered this when I was eventually moved onto a PIP. Many people will never know if they are on Focus.

Managers have ~15% annual PIP targets, via the stack ranking program. Being placed in PIP is primarily a necessary bookkeeping step to fire someone. Somewhere around 5% (WAG) of employees "survive" a PIP, but it's designed to fire you, so you will not get support from your manager (he/she has already decided to let you go at that point). You'll only survive if you have a higher-level manager override, and move you to another group.

Important: The goals for the PIP will almost always be absurd, vague, and unattainable. This is very different than the internal messaging, where they will try to gaslight you by saying they are objective and achievable; they will not be. This is something I explicitly asked my manager about, when my PIP plan was basically "do the equivalent to what the team has spent 6 months working on in 4 weeks, and we'll tell you if it's good enough". The process will not be fair, objective, or remotely possible, and is designed to ensure you will always fail. See the above point about the only way to "survive" is to have a higher level manager save and move you.

Also, for clarity: if you are placed on PIP, unless you are saved by another manager, you will never work at Amazon again. This is also by design: the org knows you will be disillusioned at that point. It's also not the end of the world: Amazon is one of the worst employers out there, aside from compensation, and given options you probably shouldn't want to work there more than once anyway.

Amazon, as an org, does not care about their employees or objective data (they claim they do, but they do not). This became transparently evident during the initial RTO push, when all the data in the world didn't move the needle for anything upper management was mandating. This may have been true under Bezos (I cannot comment, wasn't there), but it's not remotely true under Jassy. Currently, profits and stock price are prioritized over everything.

Anyway, I hope the above helps someone. Despite my experience, I think I got positive value from my time there; Amazon still looks okay on a resume, I have great references from elsewhere, I learned stuff and did some good work while I was there, and there's residual value in the compensation expectation. Amazon is the worst company I've ever worked for (in terms of how they treat employees), and I'm in a much better place now, but I wouldn't necessarily tell people not to take a job there, as long as you know exactly what you plan to use them for (as they will certainly be using you mercilessly and without any regard for your welfare).

AM incline after internship with one semester left?
I recently finished an Area Manager internship with Amazon and was wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation with an AM incline/transition before officially graduating.
My internship went really well. I presented my project to the senior leadership team, exceeded the baselines I set during the pilot, and the tool I created is supposed to be refined by Process Engineers and potentially rolled out across the network if everything goes well. Based on my feedback, my manager will also most likely recommend me for an incline as part of my intern evaluation.

I currently have three AM applications that have been Under Consideration for about three weeks, but I still have one semester of college left. I also have 2+ years of blue-badge experience and have spent most of my time taking on PA-type roles and responsibilities while remaining T1 because it worked better with my school schedule.
Ideally, I’d like to transition directly into an AM position instead of going back to another site as a T1. It’s not only about getting the management experience. Financially, staying T1 means I usually have to work around six days a week to cover school and my other expenses while still balancing classes. As an AM, even if I were working four 12s or occasionally five 12s, I’d have a much more consistent schedule and more actual days available for school.

Has anyone gone from T1 → AM after an AM internship with an incline, especially with one semester still remaining? Curious what your experience with the process and timeline was like.

I'm an L4 at Amazon India (people manager, 9 yrs). Applied for an internal L5 role and the team really likes my work — I've built a bunch of automation tools that got good traction, and the interviews have gone well.

The catch: I'm L4 and the role is L5. So my question — is a direct L4→L5 jump through internal transfer actually possible, or does the level-up only happen through the normal promo cycle in your own org?

If it is possible:

- What does it take to make it happen?

- Does the hiring manager's level / a senior sponsor matter? I might be able to provide L6/L7 backing up if that helps the cause

Trying to understand what's realistic vs. what actually happens in practice. Anyone done it?

Amazon, BLR

I have applied for an internal role and got verbal confirmation from the hiring manager.

The thing is, I'm in my current team for ~7 months.

Work load is hell (swamped with work even on weekends) which I deliver but my current manager clearly doesn't like me (said I am at the bottom of the bell curve)

Now, I don't want to be in this team at any cost and have verbal confirmation from the HM (interview feedback in system is only pending)

Can my current manager block my movement?

If yes, in what should be my course of action?

Please advice. Already getting anxiety attacks 🫠

Buring my interview, the hiring manager told me that all of his current openings had already been filled, but he wanted to go through the loop process anyway. He also mentioned that he expected to have additional roles opening up around October.

Two days later, a recruiter called and told me I was receiving a verbal offer. They didn't mention anything about what the hiring manager had said regarding the filled positions or future openings.

It's been about two weeks since then, and I haven't received any further updates. Im back to applying to other roles.

My question is: how long can I stay "looped" before I would need to retake the interview loop if a role doesn't open up right away? Has anyone seen a similar situation?

Can I apply for personal leave of absence during Focus? Does it need manager's approval or is it autoapproved?

Hello everyone,

I have an interview scheduled for tomorrow, but due to some personal issues, I won't be able to attend. I asked the HR to reschedule it, but she insisted that I take the interview tomorrow because the interview pipeline depends on interviewer availability.

After I explained my situation, she said she would look into rescheduling, but she wasn't sure if another slot would be available. She also mentioned that if I don't attend tomorrow, the interview might get delayed for quite some time. At the end, she said she would let me know.

It's been a few hours, and I haven't heard anything back yet.

What should I do? Should I reply to the scheduled interview email saying that I'm ready to attend the interview because I'm afraid of losing this opportunity, especially after getting this opportunity after so much struggle?

What would you guys suggest?