Amazon Principal Business Development Manager reviews

3.3

50% would recommend to a friend

(141 total reviews)
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34% approve of CEO

90% positive business outlook

Principal Business Development Manager employees have rated Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 141 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Business Development Manager professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Business Development Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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141 reviews
1.0
Feb 4, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Salary is good. That’s it

Cons

Terrible culture. The only ones that survived are bootlickers. Too many people became managers while having zero social skills. They think the writing culture is a plus but the reality is nobody reads it. A presentation with 5 slides is more efficient than a paper written in quicksuite

3.0
Nov 17, 2025
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Big company, big potential for impact, IF you can navigate corporate politics. Tons of options for type of work, Amazon does pretty much everything and internal mobility is encouraged. Retail, entertainment, payments, cloud, hardware... When I joined, Amazon was tough, but fair. Data-backed arguments were valued, and anyone could bring a document to the table. Because it valued ideas over people, and promoted based on results only, it had a surprisingly good gender ratio and ethnic diversity for senior engineers. You can still find pockets of that data-driven culture, but they're shrinking. Leadership principles are great, when they're followed.

Cons

Amazon is increasingly about who you know and how confident you sound. Senior management no longer takes the time to poke holes in one-way door ideas, and the number of arrogant narcissists just keeps growing. HR can't stop leaders from purging orgs to surround themselves with loyalists and yes-men. Benefits are slightly below par for big tech, as is pay. 5-day RTO is a mess. The only upside to the layoffs is that maybe physical infrastructure won't be totally oversubscribed anymore.

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