Anyone moving to Crystal City?
They really should've had one in the middle/South rather than adding both HQ2s on the east coast.
They actually need to recruit globally. You can't have just anybody show up in Missouri and Alabama without backlash. Especially in times where foreigners are hated in those regions
By middle I think they meant Chicago, Austin or Dallas. Though essentially NY and DC will be a lot closer with each other than Seattle hence one of the reasons they even split since they maximize benefits and still operate together.
DC makes sense given the size of contracts from government cloud and also the fact they need something to pressure government for variety of their businesses. Having government employees’ kids, nieces/nephews or relatives will give unconscious bias to those employees and may have effect on policy makers unknowingly. NY also makes sense since there had been rumors Amazon wants to get in the business of insurance and medical. They can absorb financial folks easily. Amazon has shown their formidable power over non tech companies and they will likely use their strengths rather than wasting on competing against other tech companies. Amazon figures out productivity produced by way of tech can overpower at non tech businesses hence it makes sense to continue the expansion in non tech areas. Those two cities make sense.
I agree with all of these points. I also think NYC makes a lot of sense from a recruiting perspective. A lot of people want to be in New York over Seattle, so this gives them some strength to pull more talent.
Amazon headcount is 500K that’s enormous plus 50K in two HQs. Sounds like one day entire United States will be company country (all Americans will work for Amazon).
It’s still day one
You can’t work for Amazon ever again if you were Pivoted out. At least that’s the current rule.
Funny all the Canadians thinking Toronto had a chance.
It was all a bullshit publicity stunt. Fuck Amazon
Amazon is brilliant. They got a couple billion dollars from local governments to help pay for recruitment in places with cheaper labor. I don’t know about queens, but crystal city is a dump.
Crystal City isn’t really a dump but I agree Amazon is clever.
Lol cheaper labor you do realize that DC and NY have some of the highest paid workforces. I also don't like crystal city but that doesn't mean it has a low cost workforce
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Does Amazon really need 2 HQs? Do you really think Amazon is going to grow forever? I wonder why they ditched Seattle for further growth.
I was wondering why I had 2 Amazon recruiters reach out to me today about fintch roles.
Fintech. Run away!!!!