Please let them hire some decent people to handle communications to AWS users!
And we won't complain if they also get some engineers with world-class expertise in network attached storage.
Amazon has gone from 26,100 to 37,900 employees in just one year
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Re: Amazon has gone from 26,100 to 37,900 employees in just one year
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I'm a developer in the mobile web team and we're one of the groups currently hiring. I really like this team and the company's infrastructure is very impressive. You should check us out. Here's the position from our jobs site: http://jp-amazon.icims.com/jobs/127264/job and other positions in Tokyo: http://www.amazon.co.jp/Search-Jobs-version2/b/ref=amb_link_... I'm not sure where we've advertised outside of our…
Oh, I was searching over at amazon.com. It does return Tokyo positions but the results seem different. Thank you. Please let me know how to contact you.
daniel@danielsilva.org
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#13And still hiring here in the Tokyo office :)
I'm curious about corporate culture in an American company in Japan. Does that mean that it's not as bad as the salaryman horror stories that we often hear about? Would you say that the corporate culture in the offices is more American or Japanese? I've always wondered how those two styles would interact with each other.
It's a mix of cultures but heavily tilted towards the culture of the headquarters. I think established businesses like Amazon attract people who fit into the culture of the company -- sure, it's an American company, but it's very different from Oracle or Twitter or Morgan Stanley.
Re: Amazon has gone from 26,100 to 37,900 employees in just one year
#14I love how this article is speculating on what crazy things Amazon must be building by adding that many people. I'll tell you what they're building: fulfillment centers and call centers.
About 5 years ago when Amazon had around 15K employees worldwide and they only had 3K in Seattle and only a few small dev centers around the world. So even if every single person in Seattle was working on development that still only accounts for 20% of the workforce.
I can't find up to date numbers on the number of people in each location but considering there's now 40 FCs worldwide I don't think my math can be that far off. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com#Locations)
If I had to bet, I'd say 2000 of 11000 new employees are either developers, dev managers, or project managers.
It might also be worth asking when the headcount for Zappos got tacked onto Amazon.com.
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#16And still hiring here in the Tokyo office :)
In California a2z (subsidiary of AMZN) is hiring: http://www.a2z.com/jobs/
Re: Amazon has gone from 26,100 to 37,900 employees in just one year
#17Please let them hire some decent people to handle communications to AWS users! And we won't complain if they also get some engineers with world-class expertise in network attached storage.
I think you mean some more engineers with world-class expertise in network storage: the fact that EBS/S3 have worked as well as they have at scale should indicate they have some already.
Sure, they have failures/slowdowns etc, but they are pioneering the space of providing massive infrastructure to heterogeneous clients at low cost, and still manage to keep it working enough that companies entrust their business to them.
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#18I believe it is due to AWS aka Cloud computing
Re: Amazon has gone from 26,100 to 37,900 employees in just one year
#19I started Amazon in January. It really is a great place to work. Fun projects, smart people to learn from, at least two talks on interesting subjects a week, and lots of time to write code. After working here, I wouldn't want to work anywhere else, I like it that much. The only problem is Seattle. Moving from Dallas to Seattle has resulted in a lower quality of life, but I can deal with it.
Re: Amazon has gone from 26,100 to 37,900 employees in just one year
#20I love how this article is speculating on what crazy things Amazon must be building by adding that many people. I'll tell you what they're building: fulfillment centers and call centers. About 5 years ago when Amazon had around 15K employees worldwide and they only had 3K in Seattle and only a few small dev centers around the world. So even if every single person in Seattle was working on development that still only…
They are supposedly adding 9 new fulfillment centers this year after adding 11 or 12 last year to meet demand. They had over 50 fulfillment centers at the end of 2010. Thats most likely the source for the majority of their new hires.