Yes, advertising. I started working on "Kindle Special Offers", a product I actually liked as a customer before getting the job. I knew what the team worked on

Yes, advertising. I started working on "Kindle Special Offers", a product I actually liked as a customer before getting the job. I knew what the team worked on and actively chose that team out of a dozen options. It's advertising, but I think is at the very least not "bad" advertising. There was even some really interesting work with automatically generating ads for books based on recommendations. Eventually my team started to own web ads, and I was gone in 9 months (note that I was happily at Amazon for almost 5 years before that point). I hate web ads, and think it's a net negative to the browsing experience on a website that's already making Scrooge McDuck pools of money.