You know, notwithstanding Amazon's manifest success as a business.

From the inside, did you ever think they could be doing some of these personnel things better

than that?

Or was it's very success sort of say no they're obviously

doing it right in some ways I thought the success that they were doing it right I mean

it is not a place even at its best it would not be a place for everyone you need to be

super comfortable with change and things moving fast and ambiguity and it's really exhilarating

I mean I got to work on things I never would have at more sane companies

you know or companies with less money. But yeah I mean you would have to look around

and think these people are so good, so brilliant, You know, my coworkers are so talented. What if they weren't

also fried and exhausted and desperate? Like they could probably be even better.

It just didn't seem sustainable. Hi, it's Todd Bishop, and I'm excited this week to welcome a guest host to the GeekWire

podcast. Ross Reynolds, whose voice is well known in the Seattle region from his 34 years at KUOW,

the public radio station from which he retired in 2021.

He's joined by a special guest for a behind-the-scenes look at work and life inside Amazon.

This is GeekWire and I'm Ross Reynolds guest hosting this week and my guest

today is Christy Coulter. Christy Coulter's newish book is called Exit Interview,

The Life and Death of my Ambitious Career.

It's a memoir about what she learned in her 12 years

as an executive at Amazon, about work, gender bias, and herself. Exit interview is

Christie's second book. Her first nothing good can come from this is a collection

of essays about quitting drinking. Thanks so much for joining us on Geekware today, I appreciate it.

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