Career Q&A with Ethan Evans
About the Event
Level Up Newsletter paid members are invited to join this live event where Ethan will answer career questions.
Format:
30min of answering curated pre-submitted questions.
30min+ of live audience questions.
How to submit a question
Go to the section titled "Ask Ethan your career question"
Click the button.
Submit via Google Forms.
Register to join live.
The event will be video recorded and shared with paid members only (no public access).
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/