Roughly seven years after announcing its return to the city where Jeff Bezos opened Amazon's first office from his garage, the company has close to 10,000 Bellevue, Washington-based employees.
Compared with its 55,000-person-strong Seattle campus, Amazon's Bellevue workforce is small but growing quickly. It will likely hit the 10,000-worker milestone this summer and plans to grow that workforce to 25,000.
With 5 million square feet of office space and significant investments in affordable housing and transportation in Bellevue, Amazon is making good on its promise to change the view of its first headquarters from Seattle to the Puget Sound region.
