Exit interview: the life and death of my ambitious career - kristi coulter

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 .

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 came with it.

In no time she finds the challenge and excitement shed been craving--along with seven-day workweeks, lifeboat exercises, widespread burnout, and a culture driven largely by fear.

But the chase, the visibility, and, lets 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 shed signed up for.

Unsparing, absurd, and wickedly funny, Exit Interview is a rare journey inside the crucible that is Amazon.

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.