Peculiar Culture | Brand, Merch & Orgs | Mechanisms, IT & Ops | Tools & Websites | Acronym Shmacronym |
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What are Bar Raisers?
These folx are an objective third party to the Amazon interview loop to assure the best long-term hires are made for the company.
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Who/What is Peccy?
This is the nickname for Amazon’s Peculiar Ways mascot you will see all over Amazon--on posters, t-shirts and handouts and is our ambassador for Customer Obsession.
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What is Slack?
This is where Amazonians work together more effectively, find the information they need to do their best work, and connect to other software tools and services, using Channels, direct messages & workspaces.
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What is PhoneTool?
This is an internal website that allows you to find other employees—showing their contact info, badge photo, and position in the org tree.
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What is AMZL
Their goal is to provide customers with an incredible package delivery experience through the last mile of the order.
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What is Dive Deep?
This Leadership Principle encourages Amazonian leaders to stay connected to the details and operate at all levels
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What is the Amazon Smile?
This is considered the Preferred logo to represent the Amazon parent brand.
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Who is Alexa?
They live in the cloud and is happy to help anywhere there's internet access and an enabled device. They are a voice AI that is way more “intelligence” than “artificial.”
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What is People Portal or Amazon AtoZ?
If you went to ‘manage my Data’ and updated your Self Identification section, you would be where?
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What is MGHD?
If you are an L4+ FTE who wants to Hire and Develop the Best by interviewing, this is Amazon's required learning experience to interview candidates.
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What is Prime Day?
This is Amazon's largest global shopping event exclusively for our Prime Members--offering great deals, events and exclusive content.
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What is Red?
If I just had my 10 year Amazon anniversary, this would be my badge color.
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What is Broadcast?
This is an internal video-on-demand service with live-streaming capabilities that provides knowledge to learners with authoritative & relevant Amazon video content.
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What is KNET
At this site, you can access your transcript to see what is past due, due soon and assigned with no due date.
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What is a PRFAQ?
This is what Amazon considers to be the official working Backwards document.
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What is an Email Storm?
This is an event where an email list with many subscribers gets a weird or unexpected email, causing a large number of people to "Reply All" asking to be removed from the list which results in quadratic growth, as other members of the list get tired of receiving a lot of requests to be removed and "Reply All" in turn, adding to the chaos.
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What is AWS or Amazon Web Services?
This is Amazon’s secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow.
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What is Amazon WorkDocs?
This is Amazon's official file backup solution that allows you to access, edit, upload, share and manage files online.
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What is the amazon stock portal?
In this portal, you can View your awards by award date, vests by calendar or compensation year.
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What is GREF?
This team provides real estate transaction expertise, business partnering, space and occupancy planning, capital investment program management, facility maintenance and operations across more than 50 countries.
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What is Working backwards?
This is a critical element of Amazon’s Day 1 culture and how we innovate on behalf of customers. In fact, it is so important, that we offer e-learning and live trainings, wiki content, case studies, and resources for individuals, leaders, and teams.
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What is IMDB?
Acquired by Amazon in 1998, this is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online.
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What are Connections?
This is a real-time, company-wide mechanism designed to listen to and learn from employees at scale to identify and eliminate obstacles that get in the way of customer obsession, and improve the employee experience.
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What is Quip?
This is a collaborative hub where teams create and discuss their work in real-time. It is currently accessible while on the Amazon corporate network directly or over VPN.
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What is OP1?
These docs start in Q2 and outline the next 3-5 years of planning for the business.
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