Operations Intern Review
by Amazon
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
4.5
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Culture
4.5
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Amazon
- 7. Would you recommend Amazon to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Amazon
Overview
Versatile role with a lot of opportunity for learning. No expectations to know everything going in as everything is taught to you on the job. Amazon employees are always friendly and passionate about helping new starters. Job itself involves owning a project assigned by your manager. As an Ops intern you can be based in a fulfillment center (where parcels are packed), sort center (parcels come packed and get sorted to different locations to be sent to delivery stations), or a delivery station (parcels are sorted and assigned to drivers who take them to customers). The role itself will be different depending on which of these you are assigned to.
Skills
- Leadership skills - Data analysis - Root cause analysis - Lean 6 Sigma - Stakeholder management - Project management
Responsibilities
Every Amazon intern has a project that you own. You are entirely responsible for every aspect of this project. A lot of autonomy in terms of the direction you want to take with it and how you want to structure it. Managers assign the project but tend to be very open to collaboration (I was initially assigned a presentation as my final deliverable but asked if I could write a narrative doc instead as I wanted to develop my Amazon writing skills). I was never given too much responsibility in an overwhelming capacity. Sometimes I felt I had too little but worked with my manager and my team to find more work for me.
Support & Guidance
Everyone on site was always friendly and willing to help. One of Amazon's Leadership Principles is "hire and develop the best" so people go out of the way to do so. The Amazon Intern team (AUTA) are helpful as well when needed, any problems or questions related to the intern program, reach out to them. As such a huge company, Amazon have a lot of internal resources (internal wiki/AI chat bots etc).
Culture
Company culture is very unique but very good. Everyone is kind and willing to help and support new hires at all times. Huge focus on DEI and engagement.
Your Impressions
Thoroughly enjoyed. The people definitely made the job for me but it depends on you and how well you gel with the people around you- luck of the draw pretty much. The role itself was an amazing opportunity to learn and grow.
Yes
Research the Amazon Leadership Principles and the STAR format before your interview.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Logistics and Operations
Wales
July 2025
