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I can only speak from my experience, but as an Amazonian working in a non-Seattle office, we hired essentially completely locally. We have a few transfers, but it's much more of a pain in the ass to get people moved than it is to find talent in the area. Hiring in LA, by the way.

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Seconded, as another Amazonian working in a remote office. The Seattle HQ absolutely hires folks from all over, but many of the remote sites tend to hire more locally. In fact, many of the remote sites exist precisely because of the local labor market (e.g. NYC hiring people out of finance, advertising, etc).

Although given the planned scale for HQ2, I would imagine hiring practices for HQ2 to be closer to the "bring in people from everywhere" model rather than the "hire [almost] exclusively locally" model.

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