Amazon.com Inc.’s message to high school computer science students is clear: Stick with it, and we can hire you in a few years.
Brian Taptich, Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) executive and Potomac, Maryland native, told 18 high school students at Cardozo Education Campus in D.C. on Tuesday morning that they were already ahead of him — he didn’t think about tech or learn any digital skills until he was well into his 20s.
“There are quite literally thousands of jobs that are available right now and people with your skills — granted, in a few years — will fill,” he said, highlighting current Amazon openings in product management, solutions architecture and systems engineering. “There are no shortage of jobs that you guys are on the right track for.”
Taptich, vice president of AWS’s Game Tech, met with computer science teacher Aris Pangilinan, whom students referred to as “Mr. P,” and his class of sophomore, junior and senior students. He talked about Taptich’s…
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