Amazon plans to add 3,500 jobs across 6 U.S. cities
Amazon intends to hire new staff across Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York , Phoenix, and San Diego.Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, pictured on September 13, 2018.Amazon announced Tuesday that it is planning to create 3,500 new tech and corporate jobs across six major U.S. cities.
Amazon said it expects to invest $1.4 billion in the offices and add more square feet to each location. The new hires — expected to include cloud-infrastructure architects, software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and user-experience designers — will work on areas like AWS , Alexa, Amazon Advertising, Amazon Fashion, and Amazon Fresh.
Amazon has more than 876,000 employees worldwide, with 600,000 staff added to the company since 2010.Three out of roughly 10 "distinguished engineers" have left Amazon in 2020, with Brad Porter, Amazon's head of robotics, leaving most recently.
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