Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA
by gregw2 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @09:46AM
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The slight problem is that if top talent wants to live in Houston, there are fewer options of interesting companies to work for than on East/West coast. It's a symbiotic thing, not wholly controlled by top talent's desires.
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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA
by dunpeal on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @09:52AM
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It's a simple quantitative question:
How many candidates are already in or willing to relocate to NYC versus Houston.
That's all Amazon really cares about: the absolute numbers.
They're looking to hire tens of thousands of engineers and that's pretty much the only reason they're going through with this huge investment in new campuses.
Regardless of my personal preference, I think it's pretty obvious that the numbers work in NYC's favor.