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> amazon head count is 1.5M employees world wide In 2012, they had 88,000 … if scaling were linear—which it's not—that averages out to 141,000 people to hire a
by gffrd 4y ago
> amazon head count is 1.5M employees world wide
In 2012, they had 88,000 … if scaling were linear—which it's not—that averages out to 141,000 people to hire a year.
In a single year, 2019 to 2020, they grew their workforce ~63%, from 798k to 1.3m.
Insane.
- throwayyy479087 4y agoI drove by a billboard earlier that said “Amazon warehouse hiring - no interview required. Show up and get paid!”
- colinmhayes 4y agoAmazon has worked extremely hard to make the warehouse jobs as brain dead as possible so that people off the street can be plug and played at a moments notice. They're treating the warehouse employees like robots because the medium term goal is to replace them all with robots.