High Growth Engineer

High Growth Engineer

What The Best Engineers Do—and What Actually Got Them Promoted, from an Amazon VP

Guest post by Amazon VP, Ethan Evans

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Jan 04, 2026
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Today, you’ll learn from former Amazon VP Ethan Evans, who will give you an inside look at the factors he considered when deciding whom to promote, and which engineers stood out.

If you aren’t familiar with Ethan, he’s a prolific writer and content creator. I’ve also written about his Maven course, which I took and recommend if you’d like to build your e…

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