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Chosen as one of British Columbia's Top Employers for 2013:
By Richard Yerema and Kristina Leung, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editors
Highlights. Mediacorp editors have confirmed that this employer:
- offers great financial benefits including signing bonuses for some employees, referral bonuses (to $1,000) and lets everyone share in the company's success with a share purchase plan available to all employees
- acquired in 2008 by Amazon.com, Inc., the Victoria-based online bookselling pioneer remains a stand-alone operation with a European office in Dusseldorf, Germany and remains an incredible Internet-based business success story with approximately 130 employees
- supports employees who are new mothers with maternity leave top-up payments and flexible work hours for when they are ready to return
- encourages employees to remain active and physically fit with an annual health club subsidy and employee organized sports teams
- invests in continued skills development with a range of in-house and online training programs, formal mentoring and subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation
Background Information
Industry:
Electronic Shopping.
Major Canadian hiring locations:
Victoria BC.
Established:
1996.
Parent company:
Amazon.com, Inc..
Full-time employees in Canada:
84.
Full-time worldwide:
130.
Longest serving employee:
12 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:
2,188.
Average age of all employees:
36.
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