AMZN guts thousands of engineers in latest layoffs

[Anonymous]

Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

[Anonymous]

Link please.

[Anonymous]

No surprise.
CS entry level is dead.

[Anonymous]

Today's news was more details about the 14K layoff announced previously.

(These layoffs were NOT because AI is doing the work. They are because companies are cutting projects to make room in budget for AI work.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/amazon-cut-thousands-of-engineers-in-its-record-layoffs-filings-show.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today's news was more details about the 14K layoff announced previously.

(These layoffs were NOT because AI is doing the work. They are because companies are cutting projects to make room in budget for AI work.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/amazon-cut-thousands-of-engineers-in-its-record-layoffs-filings-show.html

All the same. It’s engineers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

Not over the damn oboe degree, ok!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

You seem happy about that. Sounds like typical American.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

You seem happy about that. Sounds like typical American.

And you are what exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

You seem happy about that. Sounds like typical American.

And you are what exactly?

Untypical American. Educated, strategic, resilient, intelligent, not poor and not afraid of AI.

oh, also...family still intact and parents paying for college!

[Anonymous]

While it is true that many companies are laying off certain types of SWE, they are also hiring SWE dealing with AI, or because their workers are freed up to tackle other projects which may require more headcount.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/01/microsoft-ceo-headcount-leverage-ai.html

“I will say we will grow our headcount, but the way I look at it is, that headcount we grow will grow with a lot more leverage than the headcount we had pre-AI,” Nadella said on the BG2 podcast. OpenAI, which has a broad partnership with Microsoft, introduced its ChatGPT assistant in 2022. Microsoft’s headcount grew by 22% in the 2022 fiscal year./quote]

Also, some of the layoffs are due to a softening economy thanks to Trump's tariffs and having over hired during the pandemic.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/white-collar-layoffs-ai-cost-cutting-tariffs.html

While some companies investing in artificial intelligence are looking to cut costs elsewhere, the layoffs more likely signal concerns about the economy and a slowdown in consumer spending, according to experts.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/companies-warming-saying-ai-reason-110039080.html

In the US, corporations that had been hoarding employees in a “low hire, low fire” labor market are now starting to make cuts as they confront the ongoing risks of tariffs, trade wars and worsening consumer sentiment. Many big companies, especially in the tech industry, also “overexpanded during the post-pandemic boom and ended up with very large labor forces,” said George Denlinger, an operational president at staffing agency Robert Half.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No surprise.
CS entry level is dead.

Just replacing CS or coding with artificial intelligence entry level NG.

The people got layoff are highly paid employees? I think they are just replacing them with cheaper NGs.

[Anonymous]

Tech seems prone to booms and busts in hiring. Nothing new here. And Amazon is known for regularly culling weaker employees.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

You seem happy about that. Sounds like typical American.

And you are what exactly?

Untypical American. Educated, strategic, resilient, intelligent, not poor and not afraid of AI.

oh, also...family still intact and parents paying for college!

NP:

That's me too. Biglaw here. $25M NW.
Have embraced AI - in everything. It will change our world. Already has.
But, I wouldn't have my kids study CS - right now - or prob ever again.
Be strategic, people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

You seem happy about that. Sounds like typical American.

And you are what exactly?

Untypical American. Educated, strategic, resilient, intelligent, not poor and not afraid of AI.

oh, also...family still intact and parents paying for college!

NP:

That's me too. Biglaw here. $25M NW.
Have embraced AI - in everything. It will change our world. Already has.
But, I wouldn't have my kids study CS - right now - or prob ever again.
Be strategic, people.

I think your last comment is more relevant...who do you think are the ones creating these new AI companies that you use? They are primarily CS and other STEM majors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

You seem happy about that. Sounds like typical American.

And you are what exactly?

Untypical American. Educated, strategic, resilient, intelligent, not poor and not afraid of AI.

oh, also...family still intact and parents paying for college!

NP:

That's me too. Biglaw here. $25M NW.
Have embraced AI - in everything. It will change our world. Already has.
But, I wouldn't have my kids study CS - right now - or prob ever again.
Be strategic, people.

I think your last comment is more relevant...who do you think are the ones creating these new AI companies that you use? They are primarily CS and other STEM majors.

Nervous parent of a jr CS major. However he will be taking a $65/hr internship next summer working with AI. Even brought him on as a PT currently so they can work on his clearance. That sounds like an investment to me. Hopeful.