I see it the same way, once you were in and left on good terms, you are always welcome back . I treat it as my fallback too, the shifts are easy, all you have t

I see it the same way, once you were in and left on good terms, you are always welcome back . I treat it as my fallback too, the shifts are easy, all you have to do is not be late (or early, for that matter) and adhere to break times. If you do that and you are not the weakest performer, you will have a good life. It is one of the very few companies where taking ownership is really rewarded, they lay the path for promotions, they even ask you which role you would like in the future and no hard feelings if you leave for another department. I have never seen or witnessed micromanaging, the holiday system is the best I have seen. Keep in mind I was a fully virtual employee, maybe things are different in office. I know I can go back there if I like and enter at a level where I get stock compensation right away with a solid salary. If you collect plenty of accolodates and maybe get a badge or two, they will never forget you. I think they habe a very good screening process and a pretty good sense for hiring the right people at any level(the requirements are rather high for the salary). The reason why they like to re hire people is often the immense onboarding cost, anything level 3 and up requires quite some learning and training time before you can even think of being productive. If I was hiring, there is no way I would hire a level 5 from outside amazon if I could give that role to an experienced level 4 employee. All teams are pretty huge, think of lets say 10 head team, within the first six months, they will habe 2-3 months of training and upskilling, and really, you have to habe that training to do things like vcs, vat etc, as you will at least have to have some fba skills for that role. If Amazon is letting people go, it must be pretty bad, usually they are not cheap about redundancy, theu are wise enough to be ready for spikes in business. Not sure what has happened there and I strictly speak for office jobs in europe, everything else , I do not know. The whole thing is quasi subsidised by aws and this comes bit as a surprise to me. I prefer bit more risky endeavours and chose amazon whenever my risk apetite has decreased. Amazon is a rather solid employee if you perform, just be on time and have good adherence time, as a company with a million employees, this is understandable. It is also much less chaotic than you would imagine from such a giant corporate entity. If they need you for programming, aws sales, language skills and tax matters, you will be doing fine there. On tax matters or newly established teams, the next level is always in sight and within reach. I hope the severance packages will be fair. I struggle to understand the bad rep for amazon seen online, working for musk or google is many times worse. Facebook used to be pretty good from what I hear. Maybe its all individual perception and a bit of luck or misfortune. As for the screenings, yes, they do, but they do not care about memorized things, they try to care and see how you start to deal with an issue.