How common is it to switch departments or teams at Amazon?

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score 0 · Answer 1

Not common at all... Everyone seems to like their job position and I'm not sure that I've seen people transfer to a different department...

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transferring to other departments is very easy and very common even transferring to other facilities is commonplace

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In retail yes. Aws it’s starting to occur as the teams are getting big and monolithic

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Not common. It's hard to switch to a different department or shift

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Not very, you may be asked to help others.

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Very common but could take a few months.

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only if you're in good standing

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can request after 90 days

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Pretty common. Encouraged, even

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Depends on the path

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super common

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Not common