Anyone recently join Amazon? Just finished the MyDocs paperwork and selected my IT equipment. Wondering what other steps happen after this prior to starting. Thanks.
I am starting 12/23 so haven't gotten past that point. I am wondering if they do orientation that week?? They were OK with setting a start date of 12/23 but I am not sure if that means I need to do orientation later? How many days is it? One day or 6 week bootcamp? :)
Any idea how many hours is the NHO at Sunnyvale? I have to fly to Seattle same day after NHO. Start day is Jan 6.
BTW, I found a bug in their employee information form. I have a space in my last name and the "Preferred Last Name" field would not accept it although the legal name field does. This appears to be a data collection form to support data entry into PeopleSoft and I know it can take the space as I am in PeopleSoft in my current company. I told the recruiter, so they can fix it, but after over 2 weeks, no response. If they don't fix, I will find a way to fudge it with a last name that says "same-as-legal-last-name" assuming it at least takes hyphenated names! (It requires that field be entered if you have a preferred first name, which is critical for me...) This last name space validation error has been a common experience in systems throughout my life. For decades, my drivers license was wrong... they couldn't take the space. Funny story about my birth certifcate(s) but I won't get into that.... :)
Sorry to hear all that. I didnt have any of these problems on the forms....
Speaking of equipment, I was amazed to find my best choice was for the same old laptop I have at my current company :( HP EliteBook 840 G5. It's not bad, just not great by today's standards. Given AWS focused on Cloud-hosted compute I guess it makes sense :), esp. with the project I will be on...
I got the biggest HP because I'm blind
Did you give notice at your work yet? Am giving notice soon.
I’m starting! I have nho on Monday in Sunnyvale, are you in Cali or Seattle?
Seattle but was wondering what steps are next after equipment selection.
They send you an email with details about the new hire orientation where to go/what time/what forms to bring and a schedule, they send it the week before