Amazon.com Inc. has now hired more than 3,500 employees for its second headquarters, and 2,500 more corporate roles are now open, company executives said Wednesday as they hosted a hard-hat tour of their first Arlington tower.
That employee tally jumped by at least 500 workers from the previous hiring update Amazon provided in September. The company has until 2030 to hire at least 25,000 employees in exchange for $550 million in cash grants from the state of Virginia, and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has promised to prioritize local hires.
“Most” of those 3,500 employees were already based in Northern Virginia and the D.C. area, Brian Huseman, Amazon’s vice president of public policy, told the Washington Business Journal in an interview Wednesday — though he said he didn’t have an exact count.
“We’ve been really impressed with the talent pool here. It’s one of the reasons why we chose this area,” Huseman said. “We’ve seen a lot of interest and we’re just making some really…
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