#Amazon relocation survey

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hard mango
desert kettle
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ok, here's my full timeline:
thurs 9/23: decline
friday 9/24: get/submit survey
monday 9/27: portal updated with NYC application
tuesday 9/28: offer letter
it seems they tend to send the surveys out on friday

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if you want seattle

fossil gorge
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Oh that's actually really helpful! Thank you!

desert kettle
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you're like 99% gonna get it

fossil gorge
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I know, I know, but the 0.0001% chance freaks me out

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Just wanted to get an idea of whether they keep you waiting for weeks

desert kettle
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there's people still declining seattle to try to switch to nyc lmao

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which has way less hc

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i do get you tho, it is stressful having the return offer disappear for a bit for sure

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but rn the waitlist is flying

civic plover
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yeah for me
weds 9/15: decline
friday 9/17: get/submit survey
weds 9/22: portal updated for Los Angeles
thurs 9/23: offer

fossil gorge
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That is true yeah. My offer is for the Bay Area actually but Seattle would be way better for me

desert kettle
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because the original deadline is tomorrow

civic plover
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if you want seattle you're gonna get it

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lol

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other locations are iffier and even then we've been getting them

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but seattle is basically guaranteed

desert kettle
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yeah everyone's been getting 1st choice so far

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and yeah seattle there's always openings

civic plover
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yup someone got Atlanta in less than a week and that's a tiny office

fossil gorge
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Thank you guys, seriously!

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Actually really helped me feel surer of this

desert kettle
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np, gl

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you'll def get seattle lmao

fossil gorge
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In case anyone happens to see this later and the info is useful to them - I never got the location survey for some reason, so I emailed them and they basically said "oops our bad here's a Seattle offer". So everything worked out in the end!

desert kettle
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damn that must've been stressful lol

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congrats tho!

fossil gorge
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Yeah for a bit there I thought I really messed up

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And thank you!

robust oxide
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Do you guys know if this applies to interns as well

vernal silo
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Wait so they ask you where you'd like to be placed in the US? And typically they give it to you or?

desert kettle
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if you get a return offer (intern or FT) you can choose to decline it and get a location survey

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and then get placed on waitlist for those locations

vernal silo
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Ah shet I see

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Thanks for the info

robust oxide
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I really want a diff location but I don't want to decline and then not get another offer

desert kettle
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when i got my intern offer there was no way to change location

robust oxide
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Isn't it the same process

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U decline the offer, they send u a survey

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U select a new location, they send u a new offer for that location if available. Not sure

desert kettle
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i'm pretty sure that's only for return offers

fossil gorge
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(Seeing this really late, sorry) Just to add to this, mine was a first time offer and when I asked about changing location I was told to do the whole declining offer thing

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It’s possible they gave me the wrong info though, because I didn’t get the survey that other people did after

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But emailing them seemed to fix the whole thing

desert kettle
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interesting

vernal silo
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bruh what

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I mean in the end I got the optimal location so all good I gues

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guess*

desert kettle
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which location did you get?

vernal silo
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ah in Canada so wanted Toronto, got Toronto

desert kettle
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ah grats, i unfortunately don't know the sizes of the CA offices but nice

vernal silo
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yeah there's quite a few, not as many as states obviously but ya

desert kettle
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i know of vancouver and toronto (in terms of offices) that's about it lol

vernal silo
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There's Montreal, Winnipeg, Ottawa, a few others as well apparently idk how big but they exist

desert kettle
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i think toronto and vancouver are the biggest ones if i had to guess

vernal silo
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most likely ya

civic plover
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Ottawa is the 3rd biggest, Montreal is news to me - there's someone in the Amazon discord who's been trying to get remote so he can work in Montreal and it's been an L so far

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but Vancouver is like 6-8k people, Toronto has a couple thousand, and then Ottawa is like a couple hundred

desert kettle
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damn so largest canada location is like the 5th largest us location

civic plover
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idk what the 5th biggest is but I know Irvine is like ~3k devs and LA is a bit smaller but probably similar to Toronto

desert kettle
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oh wait i'm dumb, i was thinking in terms of open jobs instead of active employees lol

vernal silo
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I figured toronto office would be small from what I hear its a few different buildings not sure though

thick elm
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@fossil gorge Have you heard of anyone else successfully changing locations as first time offer

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Trying to get NYC office

civic plover