> Amazon could literally locate in Mobile, Alabama and be able to recruit just fine. This is completely detached from reality. Amazon is fighting for top tale

> Amazon could literally locate in Mobile, Alabama and be able to recruit just fine. This is completely detached from reality. Amazon is fighting for top talent against other FAANGs and all other employers. If you can't also get an offer from the likes of Apple and Google, or at least other decent employers, Amazon doesn't really want you. If you can get offers from good employers in good locations, let along from Google and Facebook, you're not moving to Mobile Alabama for no Amazon job. Certainly not if you're a young single guy. Amazon wouldn't invest billions of dollars in this new office, compared to a few millions in Mobile, for no good reason. You may not like it, or Amazon generally, but they are known to do their homework.