I got an interview for TAM role. I am a solution architect, in current company . Wonder how much programming knowledge they would need for TAM and how much they pay? How is work environment in AWS?
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Regional/Business - You are likely going to be partly piñata. The rest of your time will be helping multiple small customers on their AWS path. If you are lucky you will be able to drive strategic vision.
Enterprise/Strategic - The bigger the beast the more dynamic the role. The piñata buck starts to get passed here. If your top 10 customer gets pissed then you will see GM/Director level scrambling. You most likely will be working with or dealing with executives of large corporations and helping with strategic outcomes.
In some positions TAMs pull double duty on an architectural SA workloads, while other TAMS dick around in the weeds like a CSE. Your success and job description are really led by you in better accounts.
Most issues are multi-domain and most AWS folks are very single track. SAs can help a lot, but it’s a mixed bag on SA vs TAM depending on Team. There are idiots and technical experts in both.
You need very little programming knowledge but you need a multi-domain technical breadth and depth in a couple of them. I have depth in security, app dev, databases, and networking... but honestly many TAMs are jack of all trades and masters of 1 or 2.
Pay for an L6 is anywhere from 180k to 250k total comp as a start, though Bay Area affects salary more than negotiating.
Work environment is manager based. Majority of TAMs are not super stressed unless they are in a high priority region with more customers then they should have due to hiring shit shows.
Your “off hours” dramatic workload depends on the raising and lowering of the SDE bar for services.