Cities with a major tech office “FAAMG”
 

Which cities have an office for:
Facebook
Apple
Amazon
Google
Microsoft

I live in Pittsburgh and we surprisingly have an office for all five.
Do any other cities have an office for all five major tech companies or at least a handful?

In Pittsburgh:

Facebook as a Facebook Reality Labs office.
Apple has an iWork and growing machine learning / Siri focused office
Amazon has a machine learning / Alexa focused office
Google has a pretty large office focused on google shopping
Microsoft I think deals with the cloud

Anyway all these offices are growing and they’ve either acquired or will be acquiring even more office space. Hopefully some off shoot startups eventually spring from this to more organically grow the tech scene here.

Los Angeles
New York
San Francisco
San Jose
Seattle
Boston
Austin
Chicago
Charlotte
DC

Those are my guesses

Add Denver/Boulder to that list

Except for Amazon, all the other ones have important AI labs in Montreal. Google has a large cloud services centre. Google Stadia's main online games studio is also based in Montreal.

I hear Google Stadia is a giant failure.

STEAM is a better platform IMO. It is king. Also, just want to give a giant middle finger to EA Games. Terrible company.

They use to be good back in the day. Also, they need to stop making Call of Dutys and cut the monetization of gaming. All these season passes and all this bullcrap. Just make the game, and release it in its full form.

Hopefully Bethesda on a side note doesn't botch up the new elder scrolls. What they did with Fallout 76, was a travesty. Fallout 3 was the best one in the series IMO. New Vegas was good too, but everything after that has been dumbed down garbage to cater to low skilled players.

While I'm on this rant, we all recall the rape of Sim City. Sim City 4 was king, and what EA did with Sim City after it should be a crime. Something the UN should prosecute. Fortunately City Skylines filled that niche, but still, Sim City 5 was a giant POS.

In Seattle, two are in the 14 msf + club, two are 2+, and the other will soon occupy another 600,000 sf. Collectively we have the largest group of these at 30-33 msf except possibly the San Francisco area. Those include some space nearing completion, but not millions of sf also under construction.

Yeah Seattle is very impressive when it comes these five and other large tech companies. Are there any cities that have these tech companies that might not be obvious. Googles office in Pittsburgh is pretty big but the others are newer and still growing. Hopefully in 5 years google eclipses 1,000 employees in Pittsburgh while the other tech companies can get to 500 employees each. The trend line points to yes it’ll happen. Pretty good for an old industrial city.

Does Charlotte have any of these five tech companies? Maybe one or two. I never thought of Charlotte as being that hip and techy. Banking yes but I doubt there is a Facebook or Apple office in Charlotte.

“Hip and techy” are two words that don’t go together.

Unless you're talking of 3D printed hip replacements...

techy and geeky? :P

Boise has three of those five: Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Those offices are pretty small compared to other tech companies in the valley like Micron, HP, and Crucial.

there were rumors years ago of Apple coming here, but those rumors died when Apple decided to build its new spaceship.

Good one! :haha:

I always have to laugh when I hear people acting so impressed by someone who works for Google or Facebook... like it’s some prestigious role in society.

Most sit behind a computer all day and night and type code for online advertising.

Bay Area Sq Ft:
Google 23.1 Million
Apple 14.7 Million
Facebook 6.4 Million
Amazon 3.6 Million

I cant find a local total for Microsoft, so I dug around.

Microsoft's Mountain View campus, that they call their "Silicon Valley headquarters", was 525,000sf and was expanded to 643,000sf

However, the company has 30 teams working in various departments and subsidiaries spread around the Bay Area in Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Francisco and Berkeley.

Interesting note: MSs SF office is located at 555 California, which is one of the city's trophy buildings.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/...dobe-linkedin/

https://blogs.microsoft.com/bayarea/...area-presence/

https://news.microsoft.com/transform...-headquarters/

Pretty soon those will be the only jobs left...

With the exception of Apple (if you ignore Apple stores), I'm sure that they all have a presence at least the top 20 markets. Most of those offices are for ad sales.

Phoenix has an office for all of those except Facebook I think.

But there is some other stuff like for example the Google office if it still exists itself is/was small but Alphabet has a large operation for self driving cars. Apple has a small presence office wise but also a large data center and a component manufacturer for I phones. Then you have Amazon which has obviously several massive distribution centers but they also have a moderate sized tech office in Tempe, as does Microsoft.

As far as I can tell Facebook has no operations for itself or any subsidiaries in Arizona

Apple's plant (or whatever it is) is way the hell out in east Mesa, almost at the Pinal County line. Technically still a part of "The Valley" but kind of way out in the middle of nowhere where the dairy farms (and subsequent odors) are still going strong.

So?

So what? Just pointing out that yes, Apple has a presence in the Phoenix area but it's pretty far away from most of the Valley's major employment clusters.