Anyone go through virtual onboarding recently? Starting at Amazon next week and am not sure what expectations are for new hires productivity in the current wfh environment Tc:270k
I just started Monday. Went to the job site to get laptop, badge, etc. Then went home to do the virtual onboarding.
What location are you? They didn’t even give me a laptop or a badge... still outside the network now
Arizona
Mine was completely remote and it’s quite a shit show. They did not give me a work laptop. Security key took an extra day to ship out. No Amazon Workspaces account set up for me in the meantime. Still haven’t received instructions to fill out section 2 of I-9 and no one is responding to my emails. I wish they had pushed my start date if that means they could use this week to get their shit together.
You get paid right so who cares, it's on them
They can throw me under the bus and fire me if they can’t verify my employment eligibility in 3 days after I start
Highly dependent on location and start date, ie those that went through this week will have a different experience to those next week and so on, as the policies are evolving as quickly as (primarily) IT can adapt. Most new hires are being shipped security keys and asked to use their own hardware for video conferencing (Amazon Chime) and to connect to a virtual Amazon Workspace for anything that requires the Amazon network (since VPN is restricted to Amazon owned and managed devices). New hires that don't have appropriate hardware of their own need to inform their hiring manager who can then use an exception process to request that the new hire have hardware shipped to them. This process is tightly controlled right now as the service to ship hardware is not fully fleshed out yet.
You should repeatedly contact your hiring manager and recruiter to get a resolution. Managers have options for onboarding new hires without the need for the new hire to come to an amazon office. Those options require a non-trivial effort on the part of the manager to set up. If the manager is busy, they might not be on top of that
How often should one contact if the recruiter is not replying to 3 emails in a row?
Recruiters are notorious for being unresponsive. Do you have the contact information of the hiring manager?
I started yesterday for the SF location. It is 100% virtual onboarding for me, and I am using my own computer, working through Amazon WorkSpaces. There was quite a bit of back-and-forth for the I-9, but I am told it's all set now. Also not sure what the expectations are for new hires given this situation, will have to discuss with manager.
Have you received your laptop yet?
I started last week. It’s been fine but you do really have to dig for information sometimes or ask the right person the right questions to get access to what you need. Hopefully you have a well-organized onboarding plan though. I think because my onboarding was supposed to be in person until literally the night before that they’ve been restructuring my onboarding each day aside from what was required by the company. Also, take as many writing courses as you can and look at the Acronyms page, there are so many acronyms.
Hey, why'd you go from Compass to Amazon? Are you happy with the move?
I started this week and got everything set up with Amazon workspaces with the help of my manager. Feel free to DM if you have any questions about the process or are going through it and trying to figure it out.
DM’d you
Hi - Do we need any VPN as well along with Amazon workspace in personal laptop ?
Virtual pip
Reach out to your hiring manager, not the recruiter. It's your HMs responsibility to make sure you get a laptop and badge and anything else you might need.
I'm in the same boat, starting first week of April. No one has gotten back to me on what to expect...
I was asked by my recruiter if I was okay using a personal laptop so I guess that is the expectation right now
Wow that's so cheap. Ask them to reimburse you for one?