The online retailer has multiple drone testing sites set up across the world — in the U.K., Canada, the U.S., Austria and Israel — and has been on
a global hiring spree to ramp up its engineering staff with aviation expertise.
Global headcount was up 60 percent from a year earlier at 563,100 full - time and part - time employees, thanks to a
hiring spree and an influx of workers from Whole Foods Market.