Growth And Promotion 1/6: Course Intro

What's in this course:

- How to ask for promotion and growth
- Helping out to earn trust
- Advanced lessons for any level
- Prioritization

Starting at Amazon as a Senior Manager, then Director, then Vice President, Ethan has had decades of experience at top tech companies. This career growth course is developed from his own knowledge and input from his extensive network of fellow coaches and executives. (See Rahul's interview with Ethan about [**the top 1% of engineers.)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6P83dtntKo)

- Connect with [**Ethan on LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanevansvp/)
- Taro members get a discount to join [Ethan's Level Up community](https://levelupwithethanevans.substack.com/taro25)

What's in this course:

How to ask for promotion and growth
Helping out to earn trust
Advanced lessons for any level
Pri

Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and much more. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world".

There's more to working in tech than just shipping software. It's vital for your career to build deep professional relationships and make real friends at work, especially if you're looking to grow to senior levels.

Ethan Evans is a retired Amazon Vice President (VP) who now coaches managers to grow into executive roles. He became a manager after only six months in an IC role, at a startup in the 90s. He ascended quickly across several startups before taking a "demotion" to be manager when joining Amazon in 2005. Across 15 years at Amazon, Ethan rose to become a VP, a title he held across multiple orgs. He left Amazon in 2020.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanevansvp/

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We all have the same 24 hours in a day - The difference is that some are able to get far more out of it than others. Here's what they're doing that others aren't.

The clearest way a company can acknowledge your growth. At the end of the day, you can't solely interview your way to a principal engineer; promotion is the true foundation of your pay and career.

Senior engineers have proven themselves to be extremely capable at shipping high-quality, complex software efficiently. This collection breaks down how they operate and how you can get to this level too.

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