Ethan Evans

Former Amazon VP — first engineer on Prime Video, retired Vice President. Writes and speaks plainly about management, managing up, corporate politics, and career strategy; runs the “Ethan Evans” career-advice presence (ethan-evans.com, active on LinkedIn). Recurring guest on soft-skills interview shows — the captured 3-hour corporate-politics interview is his third appearance on the format, with questions that “get increasingly darker” (burning people, empire building, lying in high-stakes situations) answered without flinching: “It is still a mind game and a competition. I’m allowed to win.”

His value is the refusal of both denials — not “politics don’t matter” (false) and not “only politics matter” (cynical) — but politics as a learnable skill set, taught with concrete moves from two decades of Amazon ladder-climbing including Bezos-adjacent stories (the annual-meeting empire-building takedown).

Referenced from: Soft skills · Career development