--- title: Amazon Employees Ranked Hottest By Dating App Hinge Microsoft Google description: Users on dating app Hinge were 14.2% more likely to swipe right for Amazon employees. canonical: https://time.com/2986390/amazon-google-hot-employees-hinge/ author: Hannah Goldberg article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-15T18:20:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:39.761Z og:title: Sorry, Google: Amazon's Employees Are Hotter Than Yours og:description: Users on dating app Hinge were 14.2% more likely to swipe right for Amazon employees. og:url: https://time.com/2986390/amazon-google-hot-employees-hinge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb954e0dcbe6920a4/69869bd035ba6f35ebc03066/453130853.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: An employee seals a box at the Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center in Phoenix, Arizona on Dec. 2, 2013. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sorry, Google: Amazon's Employees Are Hotter Than Yours twitter:description: Users on dating app Hinge were 14.2% more likely to swipe right for Amazon employees. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb954e0dcbe6920a4/69869bd035ba6f35ebc03066/453130853.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sorry, Google: Amazon's Employees Are Hotter Than Yours > Sponsored content. 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An employee seals a box at the Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center in Phoenix, Arizona on Dec. 2, 2013.Bloomberg—Getty Images by [Hannah Goldberg](https://time.com/author/hannah-goldberg/) ## Hannah Goldberg Jul 15, 2014 6:20 PM UTC Amazon isn’t just a company with an attractive portfolio—CEO Jeff Bezos is worth a staggering [$30 billion](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeff-bezos-amazon-shares-now-202518821.html)—it also possesses the most attractive employees, reports the [Wall Street _Journal_](http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2014/07/14/amazon-employees-vs-google-most-attractive-tech-workers/?mod=e2tw). Hinge, a dating app that matches young professionals in similar networks, found that users are 14.2% more likely to “swipe right” for Amazon employees than their counterparts at tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Apple. Microsoft comes in second with approval levels hitting 8.2% above average, while Apple ranks as the least attractive tech firm with a paltry percentage of 0.2. Since 2013, Hinge has [examined](http://blog.hinge.co/) the most attractive firms in New York City, Washington D.C., Boston and San Francisco.Different industries are represented in the lists. Two media firms top New York’s list—Women at MediaVest USA and men at Facebook boast high scores. But are Amazon employees really more attractive than their Googlers? Amazon [reported](http://www.forbes.com/companies/amazon/) having 117,300 employees as of January, including part-time workers, while [Microsoft](http://www.forbes.com/companies/microsoft/) has 99,000, [Apple ](http://www.forbes.com/companies/apple/)80,300, [Google ](http://www.forbes.com/companies/google/)47,756 and [Facebook](http://www.forbes.com/companies/facebook/) with 6,337\. Hinge works to connect people within their career networks, meaning that more Amazon employees may be more likely to be on the dating app, just because of sheer size. Hinge also reported Amazon as the least “picky” of the tech companies—meaning they were more likely to say “swipe right” on a profile—which could also account for the high numbers. 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