Exit Interview
The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
by Kristi Coulter
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app
1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date Sep 12 2023 | Archive Date Oct 31 2023
Description
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 Weeks
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.
A Note From the Publisher
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.
Advance Praise
"A unique and brilliant book—both a hilarious memoir of one woman's journey through the extremes of corporate America, and a poignant and arresting account of what modern work culture can do to the soul. I found myself reading passages aloud to anyone who'd listen." —Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“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 it’s like to be female in the oppressively male world of technology.” —Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and Amazon Unbound
“Exit Interview is pure joy from beginning to end. Kristi Coulter’s voice is truly inimitable: vibrantly intelligent, tender, occasionally furious, and always funny. A brilliant and surprisingly moving tour of the outer reaches of corporate madness.” —Claire Dederer, author of Monsters
“Whether you’re here for some juicy inside dirt on Amazon or an astute analysis of gender politics, Kristi Coulter’s Exit Interview delivers the goods with wit, insight, and—in lieu of free shipping—a deep dive into the heavy taxation on being an ambitious woman.” —Gina Frangello, author of Blow Your House Down
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780374600907 |
| PRICE | $29.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 384 |
Available on NetGalley
Average rating from 51 members
Readers who liked this book also liked:
We Are Bookish
General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers
We Are Bookish
Multicultural Interest, OwnVoices, Teens & YA
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Sci Fi & Fantasy
© 2025 NetGalley LLC
• All Rights Reserved
