Apple more than doubles its Seattle office space, but is still well behind the competition

Earlier this year, we reported that Apple was increasingly investing in its machine learning labs in Seattle (Washington). For now, the company already rents two floors of the building Two Union Square and it was rumored that it would take up even more space in the coming months. For that day has come.

Before with two, now Ma will occupy five floors, as informed by the GeekWire based on occupancy permit documents that Apple needs to receive to use the location. In total, there will be more than 6,500 square meters, which would accommodate between 350 and 475 people.

Two Union Square in SeattleTwo Union Square in Seattle

The Apple website currently lists 19 openings for its Seattle office, with opportunities in a variety of areas such as machine learning, smart home, data science, cloud computing and natural language processing.

Installing in the city is nothing new for big technology companies. Apple is simply following a model established by others like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook that have opened offices in Seattle to take advantage of the great talent pool that exists in the region.

O GoogleFor example, it opened its first office in the city 14 years ago and today it has more than 3,000 employees. J o Facebook he put his feet up there in 2010, employing only a few people; last month, the social network opened a new commercial building of almost 14 thousand square meters, after opening a large space designed by Frank Gehry. Together, the offices have space for almost 3,000 people.

While this is a race to see who has the largest space and the largest number of employees in the region, clearly Apple is still in its infancy compared to others.

via MacRumors