Amazon Continues Hiring Spree With 10,000 New Jobs, Two New Towers

Amazon Continues Hiring Spree With 10,000 New Jobs, Two New Towers

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Amazon is continuing its hiring spree, announcing Friday that it will hire 10,000 people in the Seattle suburb Bellevue, adding to the 18,500 people it already planned to hire across the country in the next few years.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos attends the Amazon Prime Video's Golden Globe Awards After Party in Beverly ... [+] Hills, California on January 6, 2019.



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Amazon, which is headquartered in nearby Seattle, is building multiple offices in the suburb where CEO Jeff Bezos started the company in 1994. 





The tech giant is building two towers (one 27-story and one 43-story tower) and has leased an additional 2 million square feet of