Amazon looking for second but equal headquarters

[K Frame]

"About 50k initially."

That's a bit deceptive, actually.

Amazon won't look at hiring 50,000 people for the new HQ on Tuesday and have them all show up at work on Wednesday.

Amazon has said that it will take several years at least for them to ramp up to that number at their new facility.

[Fly320s]

Still, that seems like a huge amount for a HQ complex.  That is a decent size city in many states.

[RocketMan]

"About 50k initially."

That's a bit deceptive, actually.

Amazon won't look at hiring 50,000 people for the new HQ on Tuesday and have them all show up at work on Wednesday.

Amazon has said that it will take several years at least for them to ramp up to that number at their new facility.

You're right in that regard, Mike.  I should have been clearer in my explanation.  But when they do eventually hit their initial planned level of employment, it will definitely sway the political demographic wherever the HQ is built.  If they add to it over the years (and they will, as HQ facilities always bloatify), I suspect the leftward tilt in the chosen state will only increase.

Bloatify = made up word

[Angel Eyes]

Let's hope their new HQ is designed better than Apple's.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/people-are-walking-into-glass-at-the-new-apple-headquarters-2018-02-15

[K Frame]

You're right in that regard, Mike.  I should have been clearer in my explanation.  But when they do eventually hit their initial planned level of employment, it will definitely sway the political demographic wherever the HQ is built.  If they add to it over the years (and they will, as HQ facilities always bloatify), I suspect the leftward tilt in the chosen state will only increase.

Bloatify = made up word

So, the assumption you're making is that, in order to work for Amazon, you must be hard left.

OK.

[RocketMan]

So, the assumption you're making is that, in order to work for Amazon, you must be hard left.

OK.

Not so much, rather that many of the folks that work for Amazon are already of that political persuasion.  And their hiring process may tend to select for folks that are left of center.  I've been through hiring processes with other companies where the interview process skews that direction.

eta:  I've known several people from the company I am currently working for that have moved to Amazon.  Many were left-of-center politically.  I wonder if there is some kind of attraction that Amazon holds for people of that political bent.
Interestingly enough, most folks that I know that have gone to work for Amazon have lasted only two years or so before moving on again.  They're supposed to be pretty hard on their employees.

[K Frame]

If they move to DC or Maryland, what difference would it make, really, because those two places are irretrievably havens for liberal bullshit.

Unfortunately, Northern Virginia is experiencing an infestation of liberal bullshit that is tipping the entire state more and more liberal. Their bullshit gave us 4 years of progressive communism in action under our previous governor, and it's not much better with the newly installed tool.

[MillCreek]

Living in the Seattle area, I know many people who work at Amazon.  A former classmate of mine works in the Legal Division doing intellectual property matters.  She is 56 years old, and she confirms that she is very unusual being her age and still working at Amazon; age discrimination if you are over 40 years old, is rampant there.  She thinks she is still there only because she is a lawyer and has intimated filing a discrimination action if she is forced out.  She says that the type of work she is doing can be done by a lawyer with only a few years of experience at half of her salary and her department lead has pointed this out to her many times.

There can be exceptions in the business and support services areas, but a coder/programmer over 40 years old is rare.  There is a Microsoft-Google-Amazon cycle that the programmers do in Seattle: work for a couple of years at either of the three and then move on to one of the other companies.  This is especially true now that the days of getting stock or stock options after a certain number of years are long gone.