Ethan Evans is a former Vice President at Amazon, where he spent over 15 years driving innovation and working directly with Jeff Bezos. During his tenure, Ethan led global teams of over 800 people and helped create groundbreaking products like Prime Video, Prime Gaming, and Twitch Commerce. He has conducted over 2,500 interviews, co-developed one of Amazon’s leadership principles, and holds more than 70 patents. Ethan has even interviewed with Elon Musk and gained firsthand insights into leadership at the highest level. In this episode, we dive into topics such as:

•How to get hired at Big Tech like Amazon

•Best and worst qualities of candidates in interview

•That time when Jeff Bezos was angry at Ethan

•Jeff Bezos Vs Elon Musk

•Rapid Fire and Lord of The Rings lore with Ethan

And much more!

Generative AI is a big deal right now, and to help us understand it better, I brought an expert - Mike Chambers, an AI specialist developer advocate at AWS, and AWS Machine Learning Hero. We'll cover the Gen AI roadmap, study materials workshops, use cases, future trends, whether you need to learn math for Gen AI, Gen AI with open source, impact to jobs and more. Whether you know a lot about AWS but are new to Gen AI, or you're just starting out, this episode will help your Gen AI journey.

Omar Halabieh is a Director at Amazon where he leads Amazon Payments Services. He has developed a community on LinkedIn of over 50K+ like-minded professionals and has been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice (Blue Badge) and ranked #1 LinkedIn Arab World Creator in Management and Leadership. In this episode, we discuss:

• Must have skills for Cloud jobs

• Growing a meaningful network you can leverage

• Influencing leaders on your ideas

• Switching from tactical to strategic thinking

And more.