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Amazon Games has opened a new game development studio in Montreal. The Montreal studio, which joins Amazon Games development studios in Seattle, Orange County, and San Diego, will focus on creating original AAA games. The studio’s first project will be an online multiplayer title based on new IP. Amazon Games is hiring across a variety […]
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Amazon Future Engineer Launches in Canada to Inspire and Propel Students
Amazon today announced the Canadian launch of Amazon Future Engineer, a comprehensive program designed to inspire, educate, and prepare children and young adults from underrepresented and underserved communities to pursue computer science. The e-commerce giant will invest $3 million over three years to fund unique computer science learning opportunities for an anticipated 1 million students and teachers […]
Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud
Amazon announced this week at re:Invent 2020 that it plans to help 29 million people world-wide retrain by 2025, giving them new skills for cloud-computing roles as the pandemic upends many careers. Amazon’s latest initiative is geared toward those who aren’t already employed at the company. The idea, it says, is to equip people with the […]
Amazon Doubles Down On Toronto
Amazon has signed new leases in downtown Toronto. According to The Globe and Mail, the Seattle-based tech giant has taken an additional 100,000 square feet in two buildings in the south part of Toronto’s financial district. Amazon confirmed today with Tech Talent Canada that it is taking new space in office buildings in which it […]
AWS & BlackBerry Join Forces For New Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform
Amazon Web Services and Ottawa-headquartered BlackBerry have announced a multi-year, global agreement to develop and market BlackBerry’s Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform, IVY. BlackBerry IVY is a scalable, cloud-connected software platform that will allow automakers to provide a consistent and secure way to read vehicle sensor data, normalize it, and create actionable insights from that data […]
Amazon Brings Computer Science Education to the Home Classroom with the Cyber Robotics Challenge
Amazon today announced the Canadian launch of the Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge, a free computer science education program for elementary school students. As record numbers of children experience remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cyber Robotics Challenge will be a tool for teachers and parents to help students learn coding skills in the virtual […]
Amazon To Create 3,500 Jobs At Vancouver & Toronto Tech Hubs
Amazon today announced plans to create 3,500 new corporate and tech jobs at its Canadian Tech Hubs in Vancouver and Toronto. The new roles will support existing teams across Amazon, including AWS, Alexa, Amazon Advertising, and Retail and Operations Technology. The jobs created as part of today’s announcement will include software development engineers, user experience […]
Amazon To Host 2020 Career Day on September 16th
Amazon is hosting its 2020 Career Day on Wednesday, September 16th and for the first time the event is open to Canadian job seekers. As a part of the North America-wide virtual event, Amazon will give participants the opportunity to learn more about the nearly 800 corporate and tech jobs currently available in Canada, with additional hourly […]
Amazon Extends Work From Home Policy To January 2021
Amazon will allow employees who can work from home to do so through January 8, 2021, according to an internal policy page obtained by GeekWire and confirmed by an Amazon spokesperson. Amazon’s corporate offices are open now but the company says “employees who work in a role that can effectively be done from home are […]
These Companies Are Hiring During The COVID-19 Pandemic
We’re living in unprecedented times and it will take years for the Canadian economy to recover. To support those who have lost jobs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Toronto startup community created a CDN Startup Community #COVID19 Talent Help List last week. This week we’ve got the other side of the equation coming together […]