Pros
Good benefits. There aren't many other benefits to working here. It really hits home when I have to try and hit a 20 word minimum for the pros when I practically wrote a novel on the cons.
Cons
There is a palpable rift between management and fulfillment center tier one associates. Amazon knows they have a nearly unlimited supply of applicants who need jobs. For tier one associates the basic requirement is a high school diploma, however, there are several employees in the Haslet, TX FC who don't even have a diploma. Management isn't in the business of developing talent. Nearly every management position is filled from outside applicants, regardless if they have qualified individuals already working at the FC. I recently finished my M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and needed a job while I search for my career job. So I started as a seasonal tier one associate during Amazon's peak season. I figured while I was with Amazon I would try an advance myself, if for nothing else than to gain experience with networking and managing associates. However because I was a tier one associate, Amazon wouldn't allow me the opportunity to interview for an Area Manager position (tier 4), even though I far exceed the qualifications necessary for an Area Manager. I believed I should have at the very least been given an opportunity to interview when all other applicants are recent college graduates with only bachelors degrees with little to no life experience. In many cases these KIDS have never had a job making the Area Manager position their first job. I worked for a very reputable financial company as a Client Service Manager for just over two years as well as other various positions within the company the previous four for a total of six. I was told by all Senior Operation managers I would need to leave Amazon and reapply directly as an Area Manager. That puts me in a tough position considering I don't have two or three other jobs to fall back on. Then I recently had a SenOps person lie directly to my face and when that happened I lost all respect for Amazon and it's management structure. A large majority of the employees have a distaste for management and overall the atmosphere is extremely toxic, one without hope for advancement. If you're ambitious but don't have a degree and you would consider yourself "old" relative to the workforce, I wouldn't recommend working at an Amazon FC
