Is Amazon a good company to work for as a Principal Technical Program Manager?

Principal Technical Program Manager professionals working at Amazon have rated their employer with 3.4 out of 5 stars in 168 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of Amazon employees being 3.5 out of 5 stars. Search open Principal Technical Program Manager Jobs at Amazon now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Principal Technical Program Manager interview questions at Amazon .

Does Amazon pay Principal Technical Program Manager employees well?

Principal Technical Program Manager professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Amazon with 3.9 out of 5 stars based on 168 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 5.3% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Principal Technical Program Manager salaries at Amazon.

What Amazon locations are top rated by Principal Technical Program Manager employees?

Seattle is the top rated Amazon location by Principal Technical Program Manager employees.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Amazon?

Warehouse Associate (11115) , Warehouse Worker (6915) , Associate (6209) , Software Engineer (6167) , Area Manager (5700) , Software Development Engineer (SDE) (3512) , Fulfillment Associate (3409) , Software Development Engineer (3183) , Customer Service Representative (3043) , Program Manager (2478) , Operations Manager (2296) , Customer Service Associate (2216) , Sortation Associate (1866) , Manager (1455) , Process Assistant (1422)

What are the pros of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"Pay is good but not worth the asks made from IT and how they are treated" ((in 19481 reviews)); "Their health benefits is good and their career choice is helpful to start a new career." ((in 13256 reviews)); "A lot of information that is useful and great people to go to when you need something" ((in 7774 reviews)); "It's a very huge company all around the world and it keep satisfying their employees with good salary and accommodation" ((in 5808 reviews)); "The work culture is good and I never felt that I was new in the company" ((in 4847 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Amazon according to real employee reviews?

"You do work bloody hard and very long hours so there is no work life balance" ((in 10120 reviews)); "You work long hours and not as many breaks as you would like or need at times" ((in 7034 reviews)); "Their management is poor and has many problems that you may have never seen before." ((in 6734 reviews)); "There are also bad managers that are rude and do not care about the feelings of their associates." ((in 5150 reviews)); "The company advertises peak season as the long hours and hard push but it really happens routinely throughout the year." ((in 2411 reviews))

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Amazon Principal Technical Program Manager reviews

3.4

35% would recommend to a friend

(168 total reviews)

Andrew Jassy

25% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.4

Career opportunities

3.3

Diversity & inclusion

3.1

Culture & values

2.5

Senior management

2.2

Work/Life balance

Principal Technical Program Manager employees have rated Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 168 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Technical Program Manager professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Technical Program Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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168 reviews

4.0

Aug 16, 2008

Very good place to work, if you are willing to commit yourself

Principal engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

High quality and dedication of employees. Interesting and challenging technical problems: scale AND (application) complexity. Cooperative working environment; not excessively political. Amazon still has a lot of new things left to do. Frugailty is taken seriously: the work's the thing. Totally. Seattle is a great place to live.

Cons

Difficulty being able to leap-frog the state of the art. On-call can be very draining. Compensation is only average (but at least it seems to be average). Benefits aren't stellar. "It's still day one" gets tiresome. Frugality is taken pretty seriously: no frills (i.e. no free anything). Hard to publish or get permission to talk about work outside the company.

4.0

Jun 23, 2008

challenging, hard-work, operations-heavy

Principal engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

very interesting distributed system; large problems; can get work done;

Cons

sometimes hard to get all the right groups working together; I hate watching the same mistake happen just because it's a new team; operations load is non-trivial; sometimes it feels like a bad cross between a startup with not enough resources and a big company with too much bureaucracy

4.0

Jun 12, 2008

An amazingly rewarding but very challenging place to work.

Principal engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The scale and breadth of the work is energizing, and I am free to solve problems in just about any way I like. The people are also generally charged, smart and inspiring making it fun to meet and work with most everyone.

Cons

Projects are often under resourced and overly ambitious, creating an frenetic unfocused environment that can sometimes be hard to get simple things done. The frugal mindset is sometimes just cheap, which can cost more in the long run. It's okay to spend money when it ends up being well amortized.

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