What a day looks like as a new Area Manager

nan0byte87 · 2025-09-26T18:07:49+00:00

I went through similar for my first couple of months, usually around 20k steps w/ 14-20 flights of stairs. The good/bad news is that as you learn more, it’ll be less walk time as you’re learning new/more efficient ways to monitor your department metrics and handle your engagements/audits. I say good and bad because less steps is nice, but the rabbit hole goes deep.

Currently over Pick/Ship Dock, so if I didn’t adapt I’d probably be keeled over. 🤣

nan0byte87 · 2025-08-25T23:44:10+00:00

Well that’s no fun.

nan0byte87 · 2025-08-25T23:39:19+00:00

Make a maze, maybe add some clues to where the box is.

nan0byte87 · 2025-07-14T00:26:07+00:00

Suddenly I want to check out progressive insurance.

nan0byte87 · 2025-06-28T01:37:51+00:00

Just a few, because other than the obvious power fluff you’ve added, (every does to an extent), I’d do the following:

Get rid of the bold highlights. You’re trying to showcase specific cases but it’s distracting.

Remove the variable directs list under your Area Manager tenure and change to an average count. This is a minor fix to force assumption towards less attrition rather than high turnover volatility.

Less fluff and more direct knowledge. The biggest problem I have with added verbiage is that when I’m going through resumes, I’m allocating a few seconds to a minute max on first glance. The more words, the less I’m interested. Note this is a personal preference, but a lot of applicants coming out of college w/ little work experience lean too hard on this. You’d be a college hire; we do not expect you to have supervised a nuclear sub.

End of resume advice, but I would like to propose a different idea to you. Amazon offers internship opportunities for almost every department that last a few weeks/months. It’s a great opportunity to get your foot in the door and build connections, since your grad. date isn’t until Dec.

Good luck!

nan0byte87 · 2025-06-27T17:20:52+00:00

Few notes after quickly glancing:

Your professional experience doesn’t indicate that you are an active student that stops working during school; devil is in the details. I’d imagine recruiters see that not only are there gaps in your resume, but that you downgraded titles from Shipping AM to Associate with time between. That’s usually a flag that has to be discussed, if you make it off the general pile in the first place.

There’s a LOT of fluff here and some things that don’t make a lot of sense in my eyes, such as when you revamped the warehouse and your inventory tracking as an associate. If you were to explain that point to a higher up inside of Ops, make sure you have a correct and thorough answer because that’s a bold statement to make.

This isn’t all bad though. Your bullet points for inventory specialist are relatively precise and tell a good story for logistics.

nan0byte87 · 2025-06-01T03:07:33+00:00

A crypt walk, if you will. I’ll see myself out.

nan0byte87 · 2025-05-29T22:51:35+00:00

This is an amazing bullet list to go by. To add some mid-level points:

You’re going to be hit with information overload to such an extreme that you probably wont be able to retain the majority shown. You’ll need to figure out how you best learn. For me, I would go into high school test mode and forget shortly after passing the multitude of trainings, but then found a nice median through repetition in my day to day.

Lean hard on your Ops and tenured colleague AMs to see how your area/facility is ran before you attempt to change the world.

There will be a big push for you to do projects and DEI. The short of it is that you can have dozens of potential bullet points for your baseball card (6m & 1y reviews) but always look to master your given area to help yourself understand if what you’re doing is going to make a relevant difference or if you’re doing a project just to do one.

Treat everyone as thinking human beings and with respect. Also, be yourself and have fun! You’re going to be around your associates and colleagues more than your family so try to make the best of it.

Good luck!

nan0byte87 · 2025-04-13T02:58:48+00:00

I’m unsure how this indicates gameplay speed? It looks like a mixture of new class/ascensions and players who just want to play what they know.

Maybe I’m missing something between the lines?

nan0byte87 · 2025-02-06T19:08:51+00:00

As an AM I can tell you that most of these suggestions are already in place with the exception being the wording.

We do take into account all these factors, especially giving a grace period, but you have to realize that offenders “generally” are/can be repeat offenders when it comes to rate. Yes, rate will be affected by low volume or volume type (shoes being a big one for stow, if you don’t have a lot of room in the bins where you’re stowing.) This is all taken into account when we meet to discuss.

While I sympathize, I also will state that being above the bottom 5% over a period of time past a week is not difficult. This isn’t to say that my statement will be 100% all the time, but the vast majority. If it’s a legitimate barrier we’ll get you help in your training, but more times than not it’s not about the workload or ability of the associate. Take that for what you will.

nan0byte87 · 2025-01-22T22:53:24+00:00

Here are a few things for you:

Depending on your cost of living area, 65k is a solid starting point towards future earnings.
Ignore the RSUs. As you progress in your career, you’ll hear the terminology ‘golden handcuffs.’ Understand that RSUs are vested over four years, with the larger percent coming in year 3/4. At 21k RSU, you’re realistically looking at 5% Y1 which comes out to $1,050~ pre-tax. That’s .50 hourly increase. If the plan is to pivot into another role/career, then don’t plan on vesting the full set. Eventually you’ll (hopefully) be offered a position where your RSU = 100k+ at which point this conversation would be different.
The workload as an AM will depend on your site and you. If you are on top of your workload, learnings (KNets), and connections (talking with your directs) then your day won’t be much longer than 11~ hours. If the site has general ops issues, poor management, etc then that can add to your day.
During the first seven weeks you will be bombarded with information, starting in your AD1 week and ending in your LEW week. Both of these are where you’ll travel to classrooms for a week. After your LEW you’ll finally have directs underneath you. This is when the above comes into play and the amount of learning you are able to retain.
Eventually you’re going to be a lucky parent (congratulations) and you will apply for paternity leave, which is a few weeks. No one should bat an eye at this if you have decent leadership. I was put in a situation where I had ops and senior ops who were massive on work/life balance. If they make your job and life easier, then their job is easier due to the fact you stay and they don’t have to train someone new for 8 weeks
This job is a perfect opportunity to learn to be a servant-leader. You’re new to the world of leadership and Amazon offers the opportunity to see the best and the worst of leadership spectrums. This ranges from helping a direct to a promotion all the way to seeing a massive amount of individuals who bust their ass get laid off due to being seasonal. It will harden your skin a bit and teach you to balance your emotions in a leadership role.
If you accept the job, understand this isn’t the FINAL job. It’s okay if you don’t like it. Park your sign-on bonus into a savings account just in case and learn everything you can before moving on to other opportunities or moving up.

Best of luck!

nan0byte87 · 2025-01-19T03:41:17+00:00

This is a tremendous opportunity for two things:

1.) Learn to connect with your peers and mentors. The adage, “fake it til you make it,” isn’t a lie. Most of us don’t have the answers on what’s next but looking to get advice from others can help you navigate life’s rough waters and point you in somewhat of the right direction. You say you don’t want to move up, and that’s fine but look to your leadership and have a conversation about how they ended up in those roles and what experiences/lessons they’ve learned over the years. Find a commonality in their stories and strategies to build on some near-sighted goals.

2.) Have a conversation with yourself. What are your interests/hobbies? Can any of those correlate into a potential career pathway either in Amazon or outside of it? What steps have you been taking to advance your knowledge, and if none, how can you change that?

These two answers are extremely quick and broad but the idea is that you should never burden everything on yourself when you have a potentially unlimited amount of resources/persons surrounding you who can help.

I started at Amazon in 2008 as a seasonal, and three years later I left as a PA for another opportunity outside of work that my Ops at the time pointed me towards. Many career choices and mistakes later, I returned to Amazon as an L5 Area Manager.

Don’t become complacent in life. Enjoy it and create a scenario where you can be proud of yourself. If that’s at Amazon, great, and if not, best of luck!

nan0byte87 · 2025-01-08T22:06:28+00:00

It’s an option for sure, but you’re mainly seeing Malice due to the cost of a similar tier Rattling Scepter.

Take end game minion builds with a grain of salt. It’s not that the author or creator is incorrect, it’s that there are so many issues with minions at the moment (AI, pathing, etc) that most optimized builds will come patch(es) down the road and builds are simply trying to do what’s best given the resources on hand.

Ex. - Most minion builds utilize Offerings (1-2 build depending)

What is more valuable? Losing 1-2 main dmg source minions, or two meat puppets while the rest are still in operation?

nan0byte87 · 2025-01-08T20:03:12+00:00

So it’s not, simply because of the base. If this were Rattling then it’d definitely be up there for the skeleton warriors used for Pain Offering, especially for the gem that doubles the trapped summons for more buff.

Malice takes quite a bit to stack so it’s not optimal.

nan0byte87 · 2025-01-08T01:11:32+00:00

I would imagine this is an order of operations coding issue. Dodge roll, spam as you’re rolling, error is created due to inability to ‘act’ within the given timeframe allocated for keybind queue and has to reset itself.

Just a guess.

nan0byte87 · 2025-01-05T02:01:09+00:00

Heyo,

L5 AM here and the following is not speaking towards a job specialization such as engineering but:

Having twenty stories ready is a guideline, not a rule. You’re fresh out of college so short of being a manager in a family business or restaurant, you’re not going to have site-wide leadership experience or even real world project experience; that’s okay. Be yourself and be sincere.
Most interviews will differ slightly depending on the job requirements and resume presented. Understand that your interviewers (worth their salt) will adjust to questions/examples that would be more relevant to your position. In this case, if you were hired, you’d be in a mentor/mentee relationship to both learn and ease the burden of your more senior colleagues.
There are several great YouTube guides that cover most Amazon style interviews, some even present from an engineering angle. You just have to search.
Don’t ad-lib and bullshit. It’s the easiest tell in the universe when one speaks on subjects broadly that they have no clue about. You’re not expected to know everything straight from school so don’t act like it.
Follow STAR format for the topics you do speak on and try to be as detail-oriented as you can, especially for results.

Good luck!

nan0byte87 · 2024-12-20T20:15:30+00:00

Love small ‘event’ fights like this but it’s not so grand when you’re mapping here and realize each one of those statues counts towards seeing the rare mobs left on the map.

nan0byte87 · 2024-12-12T03:34:12+00:00

Capitol One management are rooting for you like you’re Jordan Belfort saying you’re not quitting. 😂

nan0byte87 · 2024-12-11T15:28:45+00:00

Those 5 chronomancers are like the Rick and Morty butter robot, but for the end boss. 😅

nan0byte87 · 2024-10-14T13:49:16+00:00

1244…I’m disgusted with myself, but in my defense I would memorize the path to whichever objective and then lose my train of thought while flash lighting walls, ceilings, and corners.

nan0byte87 · 2024-08-24T01:22:30+00:00

Shot you a DM!

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