How stable/profitable is Amazon tablet business?
Considering a job offer as a TPM from Amazon fire tablet team, wanted to know how profitable is that business unit?
Ask yourself how many people you see with them.
Amazon has #1 market share for Android tablets. They like to fly below the radar.
There's no real TPM job in that team. Almost every aspect is outsourced to China.
Even developing new features and supporting newer hardware?
Yes, vendors are doing most of the work and in your role, most of your time will be spent in vendor management. Not sure of your background, but if your are a quintessential SW TPM, then this is not the job you will enjoy. Frequent trips to China factory and vendors will be on cards, and if you enjoy that, then sure go for it.
While your offer is for Amazon tablets and your question makes sense, you would join Amazon giving you to the option to move to a different team when you want. We're big enough that you'll find opportunities that match your interests as long as you like the culture and leadership principles. I personally took a job at Amazon ~4 years and then moved team and job after that.
Thanks
This is the most sensible answers. As a former TPM with a related team,I can tell you that not much is happening there. Yes we are releasing tablets every year but the overall market for tablets in shrinking (while we are gaining market share). It's more of a ktlo situation out there.
Amazon sells at breakeven to sell other services.
Tablets are now slightly profitable on hardware, with down stream impact on other amazon businesses.