Exit Interview
The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
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4.0 • 24개의 평가
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- US$12.99
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A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon.com, from the author of Nothing Good Can Come from This.
“A unique and brilliant book.” —Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks
What would you sacrifice for your career? All your free time? Your sense of self-worth? Your sanity?
In 2006, Kristi Coulter left her cozy but dull job for a promising new position at the fast-growing Amazon.com, but she never expected the soul-crushing pressure that would come with it.
In no time she found the challenge and excitement she’d been craving—along with seven-day workweeks, lifeboat exercises, widespread burnout, and a culture driven largely by fear. But the chase, the visibility, and, let’s face it, the stock options proved intoxicating, and so, for twelve years, she stayed—until she no longer recognized the face in the mirror or the mission she’d signed up for.
Unsparing, absurd, and wickedly funny, Exit Interview is a rare journey inside the crucible that is Amazon. It is an intimate, surprisingly relatable look at the work life of a driven woman in a world that loves the idea of female ambition but balks at the reality.
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Required reading for employees
As a male employee there, going on about five years, I was highlighting passages like a maniac. Passages that hit close to home in my own experience, as well as from what I've heard from women and non-binary colleagues. Constantly thinking to myself, "Huh, even a couple levels above me, and ten years ago, things aren't so different." I loved the dry humor throughout, and couldn't put it down.
Honest
The most accurate depiction of what it’s like to work as a woman in corporate America. Even though I have no experience working at Amazon, I found myself nodding along all the way.
Enervating and boring at the same time
Reads like a nervous breakdown in a factory. And not an interesting factory.