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ND-Dem

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Thu Feb 5, 2015, 01:49 PM Feb 2015

Amazon one of largest US h1b employers [View all]

Amazon actually was originally founded as a real, brick-and-mortar bookstore by Jeff Bezos. However, it expanded operations to online bookselling, was incorporated in 1994 and sold made its first online book sale in 1995. Amazon grew slowly throughout the 90s; in fact, it didn't even reach a modest profitability until 2001... The company also has extended its operations to the technology field, becoming a consumer electronics and tablet producer, and a provider of cloud services.

The company also had become one of the USA's biggest H1B visa sponsors; weighing at 26 on the list, having filed for 342 visas in the first two quarters of FY2012. It filed LCAs for occupational categories including Software Development for Applications and Systems Software, Financial Analysis, Operations Research Analysis, Computer and Information Systems Management, Computer Systems Analysis, Marketing Management, and General and Operations Management, among others.

http://www.h1base.com/visa/work/h1basereviewsamazon/ref/1714/

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