Exit Interview: The Life And Death Of My Ambitious Career

Exit Interview: The Life And Death Of My Ambitious Career

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 Weekswhat 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.