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 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. 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.
Kristi Coulter has given us the most vivid account yet of Amazon's chaotic,
mercurial, dignity-crushing office culture. Exit Interview is also a very funny
and intensely personal depiction of what (...)
Kristi Coulter is the author of Nothing Good Can Come from This, which was
a finalist for the 2019 Washington State Book Award. She holds an MFA in
creative writing from the University of Michigan. She is a former Ragdale
Foundation resident and the recipient of a grant from the National Foundation
for Advancement in the Arts. Her work has appeared in The Awl, Marie Claire,
Vox, Quartz, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
On Sale: Sep 12/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 384 pages
9780374600907 • $39.00 • CL - With dust jacket
Biography / Personal Memoirs