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AMAZON HAS MORE than 300 jobs going at its Dublin base, so many that it has had to expand its offices.
It said today that the highly-skilled roles include datacenter technicians, software engineers and customer support staff. They will be hired over the next two years and will be based out of Amazon’s offices in Ballsbridge, Dublin.
More room for employees
Amazon has expanded its office space, bringing it to over 100,000 square feet with room to further grow the number of employees in Dublin.
Today’s news also comes as Amazon celebrates the start of its tenth year in Dublin. It says that since September 2004 it has invested over €1.5 billion in the local economy.
“Amazon has been an active contributor to the Dublin technology community for a decade and during this time, we have been extremely impressed with the creativity and strong technical talent available in the country,” said Dr Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com.
“Amazon has been an integral part of the Irish technology community for many years and we welcome today’s announcement of 300 new jobs created in Dublin,” added An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD.
People looking to apply for one of the roles with Amazon in Dublin can apply online.
Action plan for jobs
Also today, the Government announced its third progress report for the Action Plan for Jobs 2014. Taoiseach Enda Kenny said that on average, over 90% of measures set out in the Action Plans to date have been delivered on time within the specified quarter.
If a measure slips for some reason, we acknowledge it and we come back to it in subsequent quarters until it gets done.
“This quarter, we have delivered 88 specific measures out of 100 that were scheduled for delivery. Some of the measures are large and impactful, others are smaller steps towards a larger goal,” he said.
He said that these included publishing the National Entrepreneurship Policy Statement; the competition for Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur; and launching the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland.
It also includes 50 new research partnerships between companies and colleges, involving funding of some €5.7 million, and a second tranche of research centres announced by Science Foundation Ireland.
Work has begun on the Action Plan for 2015, and the Government has set itself a target of an additional 100,000 jobs by 2016.
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I never knew they had a base in Dublin , why do I get so many “we don’t deliver to Ireland” messages when I get to the end on an order ;-) . Btw “going” is not the best term, I thought there were axing jobs on first reading the headline
And why is free delivery only available to purchases over €25 when it is offered to UK customers with purchases over £10?
Their dispatch centre hasn’t opened yet In Tallaght.
Parcel motel is great for things that can’t be delivered to ROI. It gets delivered to Nightline up north and they drop it to your nearest parcel motel
Amazon’s Ireland base is purely tech related. Software engineers and data centre employees primarily. All of which is very much separate from the hub where you buy TVs etc.
That appears to be to do with postage restrictions on materials and certain types of product (Royal Mail or an post I can’t say for sure) – it’s nuts though. Overly strict.
There is no amazon.ie, says it all.. buy from kennys.ie when i can..
Amazon is connected to 1000′s of shop sellers, they are usually the one’s that don’t deliver to Ireland. Eg: a computer shop in London could have his own shop through Amazon, it’s up to that shop if he wants to deliver to Ireland. There’s always a seller’s info link on the Amazon product page. If the product you wanted to buy was an actual Amazon product Amazon would deliver to Ireland, if the product was the sellers own product sold through the Amazon website that’s where it’s up to the seller to set if he delivers to Ireland or not. Pain in the hole i know as i buy constantly through Amazon
Death of the high street. Support the local shops
The fleabay site tells you right from the start if the items are not for delivery to Ireland instead of wasting your time by making you log in to find out. I have had chemicals and even a windscreen delivered by others so I no longer shop on the Amazon site.
The Dublin office is not part of the Amazon retail or distribution side. It’s primarily the Amazon Web services, Data Services and development division of the business. I use to work there and we would get people wondering up now and again I asking why their packages haven’t been delivered yet! Jeff Bezos has run to the shops to get more stamps, it should be with you in a few days.
Because they were invited here on the basis of a cheap corporate tax. So what if the tax paying citizen has to pay more than the UK subject.
Alot of it is due to consignment size and some companies will not pay for the charges for this, especially if they are a smaller operation. The company I work with deliver through DHL, costs are surprisingly high so I tend to despatch pallets as it is cheaper in the long run than loose boxes.
You should read the link in the article before making non-relevant comments.
These jobs are all high end Tech jobs based in Amazon’s cloud infrastructure service’s AWS and EC2.
All are well paid jobs which require high caliber candidates so to see 300 being recruited over the next 2 years is very good indeed.
I think people are reading the headline and running straight to the comments section to complain about the cost of postage and missing delivery’s.
Poor headline . It reads that amazon are cutting jobs.
Good news though
This will be of no benefit to people who have no skills, do not want to get out of bed before 11am or who do not want to work. These people will have to rely on a SF being elected into power. Such a government will be able to keep its troops happy with riches plucked from the money tree.
Falling unemployment. Highest economic growth rate in Europe. Screwed up IW though!
That’s the PR view, others take the creative accounting view.
I seen a documentary about working in Amazon in the warehouses, It was shocking but maybe it’s not the same as the Dublin base. Good news though all the same.
Are you sure ‘I seen’ is correct? Would it be correct to write ‘I sawn’ or ‘eye seed’?
I saw that documentary too. Amazon seems like a horrible company to work for. Hopefully the conditions are better here in Ireland but doubt it…
Do they actually expect staff to work? How very dreadful of them.
Have heard some shocking stories about working conditions even in the Irish data center don’t mind the distribution warehouse’s.
I’m getting sick of people coming on here to bully others. The same people who would condemn it no less in another article.
I’m entitled as anyone else to submit a comment. It wasn’t to piss anyone off, I was only stating that I had watched a documentary before about the warehouses in Amazon but yet I get smart arseholes like yourself correcting me. I’m damn tired with the flu and writing assignments for college so troll off somewhere else or get a life.
Banga get a life you absolute clown.
Dublin is a Technology Development Centre For Europe, this is separate to Amazon retail. That picture and the article is generally misleading. It’s not a giant warehouse, they hiring software developers and AWS sales. And it’s actually a grand place to work.
That’s like saying working in GAP is great in LA -why should I care about Bangladeshi workers. I’m alright Jack.
The people who work in the warehouses get paid more than people who work in GAP in LA, actually.
And? Sounds about right when you compare the difference in the cost of living in Poland to Germany.
Welcome to the corporate world, dude. There is no escaping it. If you really can’t deal with the capitalist giants like Amazon, Google or Apple, then perhaps you should take a deep breath, quite your job (if you have one) throw away your smart phone, withdraw all your money from the bank and go live up a tree or an abandon bus in Alaska or some sh!t. Good day to you!
Anybody interested in applying please read this first: http://www.channel4.com/news/anger-at-amazon-working-conditions
Stephen, I’d start by reading the article you’re replying to, these jobs are highly skilled IT jobs, that article refers to warehouse workers. Admittedly the whole zero hours thing is really crappy, but it’s not going to apply to IT workers in Dublin.
So it’s ok for Amazon to treat it’s warehouse workers like sh!t, but somehow it’s IT staff are special cases, if that is the case then that just makes it worse in my opinion. But then again we live in a I am alright Jack society.
Well, if for example you work in the Starbucks hq, managing franchises or developing its website your gonna get treated/paid way differently then someone who actually makes coffee in one of the stores. Not saying that it’s a bad job but it’s completely different.
300 Job Bridge positions over the next 2 years.
Yippee. Break out the Champaigne
Right, maybe if those job bridge candidates happen to be highly skilled software and systems engineers. I don’t think the job bridge scheme is going to stretch to 80/90k salaries though.
I worked for this company so I can probably break down how this recruitment drive will work.At most of Amazons centers about 5% of the work force are technical.The rest are ‘customer service’ who give the impression that they are tech support and who only take queries,sort out minor problems and pass any thing too difficult up the line into a queue. About 90% of design and implementation takes place in Seattle.Most of the jobs at the new op will require business fluency in another language.Now lets face it most Irish graduates with those language skills will have another dicipline aswell and will not be intrested in a glorified call center meaning that the jobs will have to go to overseas workers.Amazon in Ireland also has a bit of an issue with nepotisim.Any of the english speaking jobs will probably go to friends or family of those already working there through Amazons ‘recomend a friend’ applications being given priority.Internal promotions as based on who you know and not on what you know.All of the above contribute to very high attrition levels within the company leading to many of the managment level positions being occupied by those who have survived the longest and not those with any particular skill.300 jobs announced ? All in all I’d be supprised if 25 went to Irish people and would be very supprised if many of those people were with the company after 2 years. The promise of 300 irish people being employed in hi tech jobs will not bear out.
300 jobs no matter where the person they hire is from is going to create fresh revenue for the local business its a positive knock on effect.if will create local jobs as well to keep up with demand ie lunches.For the ones that are not skilled get skilled its not that difficult to go a fas course or springboard if you really want it all you got to do is apply and see what happens
I work in that building for another company, getting a lift can be a nightmare!
Glad to see the Journal copped on and changed the title of the article, “300 jobs going at Amazon” delivers a totally converse message.
When they can’t fill a large number of IT jobs in Dublin how they are going fill another 300 is beyond me. Wont take too many off the dole queue.
Rest of Europe.
Excelsior!
Action plan for jobs = 47% of INTREO JOB ADVERTISMENTS ARE FOR POSTIONS ON JOBBRIDGE & CE SCHEMES http://gfmurphy101.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/more-data-on-intreo-job-advertisments/
You have no idea what you’re talking about, Gerard.
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