Google joins Amazon in staking out their respective sections of New York City, where both tech giants have said there is a diverse, qualified pool of employee candidates, although Amazon’s arrival was much more high profile.
After teasing more than two dozen North American metros for about a year with the prospect of winning a $5 billion second headquarters that would host 50,000 highly paid workers, Amazon decided to split it between New York City — Long Island City in Queens — and the National Landing neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia.
