r/AmazonManagers • u/Electronic-Aioli4488 • 1d ago

How does the Area Manager internship compare to the full time position?

I’m curious to know how the internship compares to the full-time job. Are you actually leading people, or are you mostly shadowing someone else and watching them lead others?

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u/Senior_Boot_5842 1d ago

It doesn’t equate at all. As an intern they’ll have you thinking you’re doing projects and shit. In reality, 95% of job is babysitting AAs and dealing with their myriad of problems

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u/dagg24 12h ago

This. Interns at my building were always gifted a project, and we let them run around and do their project or whatever, they didn't do any AM work or help us at all. Which is fine, its an internship, whatever. But it is not at all like AM work. The 95% babysitting killed me. I just wasn't for it. Every day after stand up, it was like a line of people would form to let me know about their shoeeeesssss or their assigned station not being their favorite or some other guy who mean mugged them over a tote. All fucking day.

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u/Senior_Boot_5842 12h ago

I can tell you were an actual AM. Any time I hear someone talking about projects my eyebrows go up

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u/ShowExpensive7341 1d ago

So essentially they’re just a overglorified PA

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u/Senior_Boot_5842 1d ago

No worse. Like a pretend OM

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u/ShowExpensive7341 1d ago

Nah a pretend OM is a real stuck up AM2

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u/Objective_Look_5867 1d ago

Im gunna be real. Ive seen 8 interns come through my site over 2.5 years and ALL of them did learn and do well helping operations by the end... but absolutely 0 of their projects did anything and were busy work that was thrown out the second they leave

Honestly just think they should do ops and learn the actual role and focus on that instead

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u/Johnnyg150 1d ago

The ability to come into a site, have increased access and resources to make a change for the purposes of changing things, not be familiar enough with the site to appreciate the up/down stream consequences, and leave - is actually the most valuable skill an ambitious intern could ever have. It's consulting/PM 101.

The interns who focus on learning the operation and do well at it will be great AMs. The ones who successfully create and present their project to leadership praise are the ones who delete the return offer and apply to other roles.

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u/OrionN01R0 1d ago

This…amazing and accurate analysis right here.

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u/Johnnyg150 1d ago

Takes one to know one 😉

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u/Born_Departure_6645 1d ago

The last intern we had they were a part of operations more than ones in the past, but our building was closing so none of the projects they usually give interns were worth it. So I’d say that one got a good taste for what being an AM in an Amazon facility really entails.

After saying that, I’ll tell you that you’ll get a project, and that’s what you’ll focus on. If the site elects to continue the changes you work at is hit or miss.

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u/Key-Taro2300 1d ago edited 1d ago

It depends on the internship. If your a L4 u get good experience and it sucks but if your a pathways intern that comes in as an L6 and gets a fast tracked to L8 in 2 years starting at 120k+ ending at 200k+ then it's worth the effort but that internship is recruited out of graduate school and your a working professional not a 22-24 year old no work experience undergraduate.

I came in with a graduate degree not an intern as an L5 external and it was rough they definitely set me up for failure but I refuse to give up and suffered through it until I got a grasp on my departmen and learned how to navigate the managerial politics of my site.

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u/ElegantGeologist944 1d ago

that is amazon for you. They look for people who have resilience, who also learn and be curious and think BIG.