Hello. I received an offer for Sr. PM from Amazon post the conclusion of my MBA internship recently. I wasn't in the high tech sector during my 5 years of work before MBA. However, I networked and prepared and mocked my way into Amazon for the summer. Now that that is done, what would people suggest is the best way to get into F/M/G? The challenge I perceive is having no prior tech background except for a non-software engineering major, product at amazon is also an e-commerce related product which isn't really a business for F/M/G. I don't currently see an easy transition to F/M/G down the road or through on-campus recruiting. Any advice from people in the community would be welcome.
Apply at google directly from their career website. Select their generic PM job description which is not related to any particularly team/project. You’ll most likely get contacted based on your background (MBA, 5y of exp even not tech, internship at amazon). Take the amazon offer while waiting for google to contact you. Other companies might not give you a chance. If google calls you, give it a shot. Give yourself one month to prepare, all you need is this book https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-PM-Interview-Product-Technology/dp/0984782818. If you get an offer, upgrade your life and get the heck out of amazon Good luck
Seems like you worked at AMZN and hated it?
What TC did Amazon give you?
Amazon gave me 200k TC. Also no I didn't hate Amazon, just feel that the exposure to newer and more nascent technologies will be bigger at F/M/G over the next 10-20-30 years, and would like to be closer to that.
Then Google is definitely where you want to be. Not sure about F/M innovations in 20-30 years from now
Haha I believe them two like to compete hard with google, and that might make them venture into same arenas too. Its a broad brush stroke, but well, what choice do we have :)
What MBA
Chicago Booth
Why can’t you get in google?
Go to Amazon in e-commerce then consider the Dynamics business, maybe in the technical field.
Dont know much about PM in dynamics but the business is good and I have a couple of friends that work in engineering there who love it.
Amazon is shit company
I suggest start with Amazon and then build on top of it