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​​​About this Event

​​​Ethan will give a class presentation on the topic "Ensuring a Great Performance Review" followed by a live audience Q&A.

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• ​​​The event will be video recorded and made into an on-demand Career Talk class.

​​​About Ethan Evans

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President after 15 years where he led global teams of 800+ and invented well-known businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.

• ​​​​​​​​​​​​​70+ patents.

• ​​​​​​​​​​​​​Reviewed 10,000+ resumes, conducted 2,500+ interviews, and 1,000+ hires.

• ​​​​​​​​​​​​​Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.

• ​​​​​​​​​​​​​Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are Ethan's (read the story).

​​​​​​Ethan has promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal, and of his former reports 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside of Amazon.

​​​​​​Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to focus on paying forward his good fortune to others.

​​​​​​Prior to Amazon, Ethan spent 12 years at 3 startups.

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​​​​​​​​​​​Check out Ethan's website: https://www.ethanevans.com/