Exit interview : the life and death of my ambitious career / Kristi Coulter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coulter, Kristi, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coulter, Kristi, 1970-.

Coulter, Kristi.

Amazon.com (Firm).

Women employees--Biography.

Women employees.

Burn out (Psychology).

Work-life balance.

Ambition.

Genre:

Biography.

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

x, 368 pages : 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Summary:

"A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon.com"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Contents:

Part I: Plunged. Implausibilities

The pull

Hermione in Berlin

Events in the history of female employment

Five words for fear

People are like mushrooms here

Debris is flying

Assimilation notes

The lifeboat

Professional help

The red phone

Part II: Boggled. The land of bigger things

People leave

Itinerary

The flow state

Inferior alien brain

Ginza is silent

Part III: Drowned. Events in the history of female employment

Amazon swallows

There are no wheels

The amhole quiz

A genius of the nothing face

I have no information

The love building

Professional help, revised

Honor berries

What we think will make us happy for once

Part IV: Dry. PR/FAQ

Active rest

Wrapped in plastic

Part V: Going, going. Events in the history of female employment

Naked guy wants a coke

Not the Amazon I know

Raab or rabe or rape

Professional help, second revision

The veal pen

Exit interview.

ISBN:

9780374600907

0374600902

OCLC:

1382261179