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Enter with caution and do your due diligence on your 1-up expectations on your role - Senior Program Manager Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Jul 15, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Depends on which team you land in, Global, APJ, EMEA, AMER or regional/ country marketing- the org is huge and you get opportunities to meet people at a global scale, though the people you work with mostly are from your area. ATL marketing esp around Brand, Product, Content production is centralised in the Global teams (as is the marketing budget). Regional/ country marketing run local events and have autonomy to run localised campaigns. If you're in any of the other teams, you're pretty much just executing and filling gaps - which is 'easy' (but not inspiring). Pay seems above market rate (BUT read my cons section) especially in the first 2 years. Lots of opportunities to enroll in learning courses and to develop writing skills to write strategy docs. The prestige of saying you've worked for a world class tech company!

Cons

Very long, relentless hours of work- no work life balance at all, and no appreciation for going above and beyond. That's the caveat to my comment on 'seems above market rate' - but the hours you work and what's expected really means you're underpaid. An obsession for writing and rewriting one strategy doc after another (narratives). A culture of distrust and everyone for themselves - people are usually so over-worked that it's rare to find someone who can just stop and provide assistance. Poor people skills at management level or below do not get addressed - and keep manifesting. A blind eye is turned either because these people have been there since the org was created or because they are perceived to deliver results. Your one-up is key to your job satisfaction - so do your due diligence, interview them and question culture, their management style and opportunities for growth. The org has had a recruitment freeze for over a year now, meaning there's no room to move, and expect a huge workload with growing targets year on year- but no additional staff, even the ones that leave don't get replaced.

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Working with latest and greatest technology

Cons

Work life balance is challenging

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Pros

Ambitious projects if you're in the right team. Typically great team-mates. Don't believe the memes, the ppl are not back stabbing jerks but are overall genuinely nice. Not constrained by budgets when building cool things. Tools while sometimes clunky are powerful.

Cons

Schizophrenic lack of focus, entire teams get split, merged and upended multiple times a quarter. Some product managers are disconnected from reality. It didn't use to be the case, the PM-Ts were previously top notch. You're pushed to vibe code everything. Established products with loyal customers are getting neglected. Newer VP level leaders don't seem to know what they are doing. Veteran OG VP level leaders are either leaving in droves or seem stressed or checked out.

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