Leadership Principles
Leaders are never done learning and always seek to improve themselves. They are curious about new possibilities and act to explore them.
What is Learn and Be Curious?
An internal website that allows you to find other employees.
What is Phone Tool?
This major city in New Mexico was the location of Jeff Bezos birth.
What is Albuquerque?
This group is dedicated for women, non-binary employees and allies. We are a community for employees in all businesses interested in increasing gender diversity at Amazon.
What is Women at Amazon (W@A)?
This service used for streaming music, similar to Spotify or Apple Music, is accessible to Prime Subscribers.
What is Prime Music or Amazon Music?
Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.
What is Customer Obsession?
This app allows for an easier way for peers to collaborate and track messages through its rich messaging features alongside its teleconferencing capabilities.
What is Slack?
The only item sold by Amazon at the time of the website launch.
What are books?
Amazon's newest Affinity Group! The mission is to promote employee well-being and to create a safe community where we can come together to reduce the stigma of mental health, raise awareness, create a culture of acceptance, and support one another.
What is Mental Health and Well-Being (MHW)?
This device is the first device Alexa was available on.
What is the Amazon Echo?
Leaders are owners. They think long term and don't sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say “that's not my job.”
What is Ownership?
This Learning Experience System is a great searchable learning catalog that allows employees to create a learning plan and track progress for career growth.
What is Amazon Leap?
Bezos was one of the first shareholders of this major company. He invested in $250,000 in 1998.
What is Google?
The purpose of this group is to unite all Amazon caregivers and allies to share knowledge, foster career growth, and cultivate community connections among families, while advocating for policies that help make Amazon a great place to work.
What is Families at Amazon?
Gets you 10% off on items shipped and sold by Amazon, up to USD 100 or equivalent value per year.
What is Amazon Employee Discount?
Leaders operate at all levels, stay connected to the details, audit frequently, and are skeptical when metrics and anecdote differ. No task is beneath them.
What is Dive Deep?
The official intranet for all Amazon employees.
What is Inside Amazon?
The name that was originally chosen for the company.
What is Cadabra?
This group includes current and former active military personnel, their families, and the Amazon employees who support them.
What is Warriors at Amazon?
Amazon Prime gives access to the prime version of this popular game live streaming service.
What is Twitch Prime or Amazon Gaming Prime?
Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Leaders create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results. They think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers.
What is Think Big?
This site allows you to see any internal job reqs and what levels they are.
What is Amazon Jobs Internal?
The original investors of Amazon.com who contributed $300,000 to the company's startup in 1994.
Who are Jeff Bezos' Parents?
This group is for Amazon women in Finance & Global Business Services (FGBS) and their advocates to network, partner, and be part of a larger community. Focuses are on recruitment, retention, advancement, and allyship, with a vision to make Amazon the Earth’s most sought after long-term career choice for women working in the areas represented by FGBS.
What is Women in Finance & Global Business Services Initiative (WiFi)?
Amazon formerly offered a service to Prime members called this, which allowed customers to order food from a business and have it quickly delivered to their location.
What is Amazon Restaurants?