I found my job at Amazon Web Services through Second Life, back in 2007/2008. This is a detailed blog post where I described the whole experience [0]. My best

I found my job at Amazon Web Services through Second Life, back in 2007/2008. This is a detailed blog post where I described the whole experience [0]. My best line ever was when they said they were looking for a technology "evangelist". I replied: I built a church, I'm your guy! Of course I meant that I built the replica of the Church of Saint Francis in Assisi inside Second Life. It was incredible back then. Now we're talking about the Metaverse again, but in 2007, 16 years ago, it was so early days. Another fun facts: Amazon's PR was... annoyed at my blog post, because it didn't meet the company's guidelines. I can easily guess that at least tens, if not hundreds, of people, applied for a job at Amazon because of that blog post. I left Amazon in 2014, and now I can safely say that Amazon PR was a nightmare, and one of the main reasons why I left. I wasn't perfect, of course, but still... [0]: https://simon.medium.com/2008-how-i-got-hired-by-amazon-com-314ee8634da9 https://simon.medium.com/2008-how-i-got-hired-by-amazon-com-...