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At Zappos Your Co-Workers Could Be Robots
The word robot always conjures an image of Dot Matrix from Space Balls for me, but the robots Zappos has introduced to its workforce don't need piggyback rides when they're tired and we can be sure they are not equipped with virgin-alarms. The orange robots reside in the company's Kentucky warehouse and are part of the assembly line that packs the boxes containing your shoes.
The robots' job is to retrieve shoes from the warehouse and bring them to a person who packs the boxes, and another robot takes the completed box to another area to be shipped.
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You never want to come across like an over-rehearsed robot when you're interviewing for a job, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't practice. Quite the contrary. Outlining answers for predictable interview questions is crucial to your confidence, which is an attractive quality in job candidates.
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