Review: Taught me things about Amazon.com -- my favorite website
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 2, 2011
This short e-book taught me things I didn't know about Amazon.com, my favorite website  The author was born in India and has lived the American dream as a computer technologist, first in Silicon Valley and later for Amazon.com.  He and his family moved to Seattle after a long and grueling interview process.  He was paid well but the job required as much as 80 hours of work a week.  He describes Seattle well, its' warm and bright summers and its' cold and rainy winters.  He also describes the impact that living there had on his wife and children.  Especially interesting to me was the Amazon.com working culture, which was indeed hard on the employees as Amazon created the mammoth business that it is today.The book is fast-paced and easy to read, the author a likable guy.  Amazon is a hard place to work for and many of his opinions are certainly not complementary although I could easily see the business genius of Jeff Bezos.  Eventually, Mr. Kalpanik left the company but his recollections depict a time and a place and an industry that is indeed unique and will certainly be applauded as a business model for many years to come.