Pros
If you are hired as an Amazonian you will get a pay check every 2 weeks. If you are a go-getter and can impress the managers you may move up to a Tier 3 associate(PA-Process Assistant) (there is not a tier 2 associate position in the fulfillment DC). They have restricted stocks as a benefit. Once a year they offer cash to those who want to quit Amazon. You cannot return if you take the money. People and most of management are good to work for and with. Amazon does offer contests, Amazon bucks, rewards such as a free lunch for doing well. Pay raises every 6 months. Great benefits and the ability to take time off when you want to through paid time off (PTO 40 hours a year) Unpaid time off (UPT 80 hours a year) and vacation 80 hours a year.
Cons
Most people who are promoted to a Process Assistant (PA)(Tier 3) are pre picked before the applications are filled out and interviews are finished. The managers encourage everyone to apply and schedule an interview. But the fact is the managers already picked the people they want and the managers are using numbers to tell the associates and whoever would like to know that management is fair. Pay is low and has not increased at all since Amazon opened in Patterson 2013, all the while, the warehouses around Amazon and in Patterson pay much more on an hourly basis. Knowing that hourly pay has risen by 2.5% across the nation today, the starting wage should be at the very least $13.84 an hour With the average hourly associate working two years in the Patterson DC making 14.50 an hour should be raised to $14.86 an hour. Management has people train and work in different areas where it requires more responsibility, knowledge and,sometimes, danger without compensation of any type. Amazon management skirts compensating these employees by allowing the Associate to only work part time in the newly trained area of responsibility. Management needs to compensate associate for learning and applying new skills.