TikTok is looking to aggressively grow its employee footprint in the Seattle area as the social media video app takes on Amazon for e-commerce shoppers, according to a report Thursday… Read More
Tye Brady, chief technologist for Amazon Robotics, joins us on a new episode of the GeekWire Podcast to talk about the company’s latest warehouse robots, explaining how they represent the… Read More
Amazon ended the second quarter with 1.46 million employees, including both corporate and warehouse workers, about 4,000 fewer employees overall than the company reported three months earlier. It was a… Read More
The Seattle area is the second-ranked market overall for tech talent in North America, trailing only the San Francisco Bay Area and outpacing New York City, Washington, D.C., and Toronto,… Read More
Inside a cavernous building in Cashmere, Wash., workers pressed thousands of tons of local apples and pears into Tree Top juices every year. But after more than four decades, operations… Read More
AI is the hottest topic in tech. Corporate giants and startups are racing to embed generative AI capabilities into their products and services. Regulators are trying to set rules governing… Read More
New jobs numbers posted to Amazon’s corporate website show the changing footprint of its U.S. workforce for the first time since the company started to curb the growth of its… Read More
TikTok is hiring logistics and e-commerce industry veterans in Seattle and Los Angeles to oversee the design and creation of its own U.S. fulfillment network, according to a series of… Read More
Amazon is getting ready for the holiday shopping rush with plans to hire 150,000 workers across its operations network, the company announced Thursday. Full-time, part-time and seasonal roles across the… Read More
GeekWire is expanding with the launch of a new business unit focused on technical recruiting, led by respected Seattle entrepreneur Jason Greer, a technical recruiting veteran who previously co-founded software… Read More
Amazon plans to add more than 2,500 corporate and tech jobs across multiple sites in Southern California, the company announced Tuesday. The tech giant is already hiring for its expanding… Read More
Amazon said Monday that it is adding 150,000 seasonal jobs to bolster the ranks of its operations network during the busy holiday season. The annual boost in holiday help comes… Read More
Amazon is looking to fill 40,000 corporate and tech jobs across more than 220 locations in the United States, the company announced Wednesday, as CEO Andy Jassy said the tech… Read More
New stats from Amazon reveal the company’s total spending on jobs and infrastructure in each U.S. state from 2010 to 2020 — showing where the tech giant has made its… Read More
The great migration of tech talent out of large tech hubs like Seattle, San Francisco and Boston may be overblown. At least that’s one of the findings of a new… Read More
The pandemic may have sent large portions of the Google workforce home. But the search giant is still expanding its physical footprint, announcing Thursday that it plans to invest $7… Read More
Amazon topped 153,000 full- and part-time employees in California as of the fourth quarter of 2020, rapidly outpacing the more than 80,000 Amazon employees in the company’s home state of… Read More
Hey, Seattle: The Buckeye state is coming for your jobs. JobsOhio, the economic development agency of the midwestern state, is running a series of billboards throughout Seattle touting the benefits… Read More
Amazon says it will hire another 100,000 seasonal workers this year, bolstering its fulfilment and distribution operations for a holiday season like no other, as a new wave of COVID-19… Read More
For the third straight year, Microsoft is the top-rated tech employer in the Seattle region according to the annual “Brand Health Report” from job search marketplace Hired. Hired surveyed more… Read More
Amazon plans to hire an additional 100,000 full- and part-time workers across its operations network in the U.S. and Canada to help keep up with the surging demand for its… Read More
Even with the ongoing economic and health crisis, a majority of Seattle’s tech companies are still hiring. That’s one takeaway from the Seattle Startup Hiring Tracker, a new list that… Read More
Seattle is once again the top market in North America for the quality of its tech labor pool, according to the 2020 “Scoring Tech Talent” report from CBRE, a ranking… Read More
Microsoft is on an extraordinary philanthropic marathon, announcing a new plan Tuesday to train 25 million people around the globe in the skills of the future. The announcement came one… Read More
Microsoft plans to provide digital skills training for 25 million people this year under a new, multi-million dollar initiative that will bring together multiple branches of the company, including LinkedIn… Read More
Career marketplace Hired is out with its annual State of Salaries report for the tech industry, and among leading hubs, Seattle showed the most modest increase in pay at just… Read More
The U.S. unemployment rate soared to a record 14.7% in April according to the Department of Labor. It’s the highest jobless rate since the Great Depression and worst monthly job… Read More
Washington state jobless claims surged last week as federally backed, expanded unemployment benefits became available for the first time. Some 145,757 Washington residents filed for unemployment, an increase of more… Read More
There were 82,435 new claims for unemployment benefits in Washington state last week, a 42% decline from the week prior. Total claims for unemployment benefits in the state now exceed… Read More
More than 150,000 people in Washington state filed jobless claims for the first time last week as many businesses buckle under the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown orders.… Read More
