Amazon’s Five-Year Corporate Hiring Binge, Revealed

Amazon’s corporate headcount more than tripled over five years to hit around 415,000 by the end of 2022, according to internal figures seen by The Information, far outpacing growth at other big tech companies such as Microsoft and Alphabet.

The figures seen by The Information reveal that cloud computing and advertising, which have become two of Amazon’s key profit drivers, were the fastest growing businesses by headcount from the end of 2017 through the end of 2022, but virtually every division of the company at least doubled its corporate headcount.