Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by NathanKP on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:00PM (#19163448)

It is in the Amazon statement: "There are currently over 5,000 Amazon employees in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island, and we plan to continue growing these teams."

Disclaimer, I'm one of those 5k. Currently I work from home 99% of the time because the office spaces Amazon has in NY aren't fantastic. It would have been nice to have a new headquarters building, but I'll still be enjoying working from home now I guess.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by badfrog on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:50PM (#19164013)

> There are currently over 5,000 Amazon employees in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island

How many of those are working in tech? When I interviewed at Amazon NYC in 2016, I think there were only around 100 software engineers there. Has it grown a lot since then?

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by taude on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:07PM (#19163533)

Thanks, I missed that (I stopped after a couple paragraphs). I did do a quick Google Search after I searched for how many Googlers are in NYC. (Was verifying there's actually 7K.)

It's pretty amazing how large some of the non-home offices are at these mega tech companies.

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