According to a report published in Forbes, Amazon is hiring engineers, data scientists, developers, analysts, payment services professionals among others. The Forbes report cites information released by Citi Research in association with Jobs.com.
The Citi Research report also analyzes job posts of other tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, Snap, and Netflix. The report interestingly reveals that Facebook is also ramping up its hiring. The report reveals that Facebook has approximately 13% job postings equivalent to its workforce. Twitter stands at 10% whereas Netflix and eBay are at 9% and 8% respectively.What has also come to light is that Amazon is catching up in terms of number of employees. The Forbes report mentions that Facebook has about 200,000 employees whereas Amazon has 600,000 employees. Google has huge workforce of 800,000people while Twitter has just about 4,000 employees.
It’s clear that Amazon is betting big on the smartphone speaker market if the hiring numbers are to go by. It was the first major company to come with a smart speaker and has almost 70% market share in the US. Google has been making in-roads with Google Home devices but still has a lot of catching up to do.
The Citi report further mentions that other notable areas where Amazon is hiring are devices, advertising and seller services. Amazon is looking at hiring a total of about 1,700 employees for other divisions.
However, if there was any doubt about Amazon’s intentions for the smart speaker market, this is a clear indicator that the Seattle-based company is going out all guns blazing.