Pwc vs Amazon
Anyone out there, I 've been with PwC advisory for an year now (w/ erstwhile PRTM team); I have an offer from Amazon as product/prog. manager in their inventor optimization team. It is interesting, but it has a IT angle to it; I will be responsible for development/roll out of new optimization tools/algorithms. Wondering whether I should make the switch? Any advise from folks here
What are your career plans or goals?
Trying to get into IB? Trying to get into M7?
No IB;And I am out of the MBB race long back. Looking to industry jobs (internal consulting @ retail, consumer tech). But I am kind of confused on which tracks would lead to sr. positions in industry. PwC I am not clear on exit options Joined MBA track from tepper)
Amazon is a pretty great place to get an offer from. I've heard the culture is a little strange (they're an extremely frugal company, and like all of the big tech companies, tend to do process their own somewhat quirky way), but it is basically the #1 company in the combination retail and tech space.
This sounds like an operational role, probably with some P&L control, and probably with some product development responsibilities - all of which are major pluses in tech. The downside is that it sounds heavily supply chain oriented (which you may or may not be interested in), but that is Amazon's main driver of business I guess. It's sometimes difficult to get these roles coming out of consulting, which can pigeonhole you in corp strat positions that are categorized in the finance roles of these companies and not the ops/product/marketing side, which is where you want to be for a career in the tech industry. Seems like the kind of position that they would be placing their MBA hires into. You should do LinkedIn searches of the team and see their backgrounds, as well as of former members of the team and see where they are. It will give you insight into the type of skills and competencies that the role gives you and what other company/teams find it marketable, to an extent.
The IT aspects of the job actually sound pretty appealing in this case. Engineers are the core of the business in the tech industry, and MBAs can often be at a disadvantage in the company culture if they don't have sufficient technical backgrounds.
Internal job mobility is also high at places like this. You can do 1-2 years in this role (usually more like 1.5 years minimum), and if you have solid reviews you can apply to other PM positions in the company, which usually aren't too difficult to land. The Digital, Kindle, etc. teams seem the coolest places if you're interested in consumer tech, but Amazon also has a bunch of teams that do mostly traditional, non-techy retail and merchandising too, if that's your thing. The diversity of roles/industries combined with their internal job mobility makes these big tech companies pretty appealing.
Thanks mossen for sharing your comments; I do carry a supply chain background ; so operations is not an issue for me. Even in PwC i am aligned to ops and product development; but I am not very pleased with the kind of work at PwC - more implementation stuff and not very confident on the exit opps. Hence my dilemma. Anyways, I went ahead and signed the dotted line for AMZN
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