Amazon Sr. Technical Program Manager reviews

TONS of churn. In the 4 years I've been at Amazon I've had 8 new managers and 6 new positions--only 2 of those by choice. There are a lot of re-orgs where work is just dropped and a tremendous amounts of previous work and effort are lost. Poor communication from leadership around changes of direction. Stressful environment due to the significant amount of constant change. Promo for technical roles is absurdly convoluted and difficult once you get past L5. In many cases its easier to leave Amazon and rebound back to a higher level role by interview than it is to promo to any role above L6, this usually results in a higher salary due to bonuses for new hires. If you are the type of person who like lots of documentation and process Amazon will drive you nuts--it changes and moves too fast to keep up and documentation and process are generally more like rough drafts if they exist at all. Next to no defined project/program management process outside of using agile for software dev. Work-life balance can be hard to achieve but not impossible--you need to be good at saying no or managing your time. Vacation time and paid holidays are probably the worst in the industry. We get 8 paid holidays a year, 2-3 weeks paid vacation and 1.5 days of PTO. Many times you will work through those paid holidays for on-call or if you work in core fulfillment during Peak and Prime.

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