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      3.6

      64% would recommend to a friend

      (262 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      45% approve of CEO

      62% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.0

      Senior management

      2.8

      Work/Life balance

      Program Manager (Non technical) employees have rated Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 262 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Program Manager (Non technical) professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Program Manager (Non technical) professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      262 reviews
      2.0
      Jun 17, 2008

      Great place to learn, but you will quickly burn-out.

      Technical program manager
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      Pros

      You have a lot of ownership over your work. There is a lot of freedom to set your own goal and exercise best judgments. There usually is not a lot of micromanaging going on at the company. You are usually given a general goal or a vague set of problems, and you are expected to exercise best judgment to resolve and/or achieve them. Additionally, there are a lot of smart people at Amazon, and there are some great technologists here to learn from as well. Amazon is basically like a 10+ years-old and multi-billion dollar start-up, with all the good and bad that implies.

      Cons

      It's a very competitive and chaotic environment to work. You never know what's going to happen tomorrow, and the ownership of your work often implies very long working hours. There is also a severe lack of process or usage of industry best practices. The company culture also encourages hackers to slap things together to meet short-term objectives without taking into consideration of long-term impacts. Some groups also falls into a dark spiral, where the service the team owns are buggy, thus requiring high operational burden, i.e. being paged at 3am when something is down, which burns engineers out, which leads to even higher operational burden. It's a vicious cycle.

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