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Amazon Reaches New High Of 268,900 Employees -- Skyrocketing 47% In Just One Year (geekwire.com)
Amazon remains one of the biggest attractors of talent worldwide. During its quarterly earnings, the company said it hired 23,700 employees in the second quarter -- making the total employee headcount at the company 268,900. GeekWire reports: Amazon's headcount has grown by a staggering amount over the last few years. Its employment numbers increased close to 10 percent in the last three months and 47 percent over a year ago, when its employee count stood at a paltry-by-comparison 183,100 people. That's an increase of 85,800 employees in one year -- more than the entire city of Bellingham, Wash.Related: The New York Times report on work challenges at Amazon.
Quantity != Quality.
A game developer friend of mine just left Amazon for greener pastures. There are many reasons he left but the two biggest were:
* Compensation for good work is lacking,
* Amazon still uses stack ranking.
I asked him about this Amazon piece and he sadly agreed with it:
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/o...
So yeah, that's great Amazon is on a hiring spree for now. What's the turn over rate going to be in 1 - 5 years?
How many people will enjoy what they are working on in 2+ years?
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"Show me your code and I'll guess at your data,
Show me your data and I'll know your code."
Only in the short term. In the medium term most warehouse employees will be automated away. Amazon bought Kiva Systems for a reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This stuff from Amazon, and similar systems form competitors, is starting to get adopted on a massive scale. And not only at Amazon btw, although there business is specifically suited for systems like these.
And after that there will be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...