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Originally Posted by suburbanite
I've frequently heard from friends who went to school at Waterloo and moved to Silicon Valley that Amazon is one of the least desirable of the "big name" tech employers. Brutal hours that at some points require you to essentially be on-call, available at a moments notice for over two weeks without the pay the match. Maybe that's changing as they finally hit (probably) perpetual profitability.
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Exactly. There is little incentive for employees at other top tech companies to switch to Amazon. The culture at the other companies is much better. And especially with Google expanding to downtown San Jose with a 6-8 million sq ft campus for 15k-20k employees, Amazon would have a tough time acquiring and poaching enough talent to support a second HQ. They want to stand out and be the top dog somewhere else, not blend in, which is why they are looking elsewhere.