Amazon Principal Project Manager reviews

3.1

17% would recommend to a friend

(125 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

16% approve of CEO

21% positive business outlook

Principal Project Manager employees have rated Amazon with 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 125 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Project Manager professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Project Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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125 reviews
5.0
Nov 24, 2017

Pros and cons

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Pros

Small teams, tons of responsibility. Huge impact. Best company in the world.

Cons

Lack of management and leadership skills among middle management (VP level and down). People are smart, but lack training. A fair deal of micro management. Cheap PCs only for non-developers. Work/life balance pretty good (contrary to common belief).

4.0
Sep 21, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Challenging and interesting work, opportunities to "make my mark" and build things from the ground up. Try and find a team that is building something new, and isn't relying too much on another team to build it - that's where all the fun stuff is.

Cons

Some teams have a culture criticizing without offering to help fix things that are broken. Some teams are too afraid to change something that already exists in case it breaks. If you get in between these two kinds of teams (trying to get one team comfortable with improving their tech-debt ridden project, which would require help from a critical team), it can be exhausting. That would describe about 50% of my days - exhausting.

4.0
Sep 17, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Amazon is in so many businesses that you can build career in anything from internet, retail, supply chain, cloud services, robotics and even groceries

Cons

there is lot of competition and social cohesion is not expected

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