Today, Amazon ($AMZN) announced that it would choose New York City and Northern Virginia for its new HQ2 — second headquarters — locations. It seems that while the world was waiting for an official announcement from the company, hiring trend data shows that Amazon was already quietly listing job openings for hundreds of high-tech workers in the New York City area.
Amazon's final decisions for office-space expansion had been shrouded in mystery and guessing games for months, but today's announcement seals the deal.
The new locations will house 50,000 employees with a focus on high-tech workers, according to The New York Times.
According to hiring trends for Amazon in the New York region, however, it appears the e-commerce giant was already busy hiring high-tech workers in the area since September, 2018.
On September 10, 2018, Amazon listed 384 openings in New York. As of November 12, that number increased to 510. That number has since settled to 495 openings.
Of those openings, the vast majority are for Software Development Engineers. It's pretty clear that amazon chose NYC because of its high-tech talent, and the hiring data appears to corroborate such a notion. Of the 495 openings, 87 are for Software Development Engineers, followed by a slew of other high-tech positions. The top-10 (and the number of openings) are listed in the chart below.
|
Title |
Title (Count) |
|---|---|
|
Software Development Engineer |
87 |
|
AWS Solutions Architect |
16 |
|
Software Development Engineer II |
16 |
|
Sr. Data Architect, Big Data |
10 |
|
Sr. Software Development Engineer |
10 |
|
Cloud Infrastructure Architect |
10 |
|
AWS Solutions Architect | New York |
8 |
|
Practice Manager |
8 |
|
Associate Cloud Developer Generalist |
8 |
|
Software Development Manager |
7 |
