AMZN guts thousands of engineers in latest layoffs

[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!

Represent!!!!

[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!

People that aren't afraid of AI are ignorant.

You are invited to the Luddites happy hour in Tysons Corner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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!

GTFO

[Anonymous]

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

Amazon went from 600k workers in 2019 to 1.6m in 2023. They’re due to downsize quite a bit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

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.

AI in law you are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Peter Theil and The Heritage Foundation told you in project 2025 what was going to happen with jobs.

This will be all sectors not just tech.

Dear MR or Ms Lawyer above no one will have the money to pay you if there are no jobs and no economy. You yes are at major risk as well.

Amazon layoffs are nothing compared to what is coming in all sectors they told you, you did not listen

[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

They do this every year or two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The jobs cut are low level tech jobs not the kind of entry jobs ivy/T20/T5 public engineering students get. Students who have in depth, rigorous science/math/programming skills, along with curricula that involve creative thinking, technical writing, difficult labs have no problem getting jobs in tech. These people never had bottom tier tech jobs of the type amazon is firing.

Clearly you’ve never worked at Amazon. They are doing it to make investors happy to raise stock. They don’t want top talent as they have to pay much more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bezos has always been the greediest MF around. in 5 years I bet they have 1/4 of current employees as they automated the distribution centers. The engineers are the highest paid employees so the trend is clear. No job is safe.

Bezos doesn’t run Amazon or aws. He’s been gone a long time. Things were better under him.

[Anonymous]

So I’m no Bezos fan but this is Jassey who is a weak CEO.

Amazon, Google and Meta are aging and haven’t had a win in longtime. They’ve approached market saturation and declining market share. The layoffs are all about keeping the stock up. Their only lever to not bleed is to announce layoffs aka operational cost reduction before the next reports.

It’s also a mechanism to lower or keep salaries down. During the pandemic and even several years prior, these companies were burning cash with massive hire to keep talent away from competitors. They created a frenzy of insane recruitment offers. They all also obsessively copy each other.

[Anonymous]

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

Amazon went from 600k workers in 2019 to 1.6m in 2023. They’re due to downsize quite a bit

The people moving boxes for $18/hr and the people building the tech for $120/hr are in different sectors of employment.

[Anonymous]

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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!

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.

Right, and if the NW is really $25m, the downside risk of a failed CS career is largely moot, as kids should have the financial flexibility to switch careers more easily. Are you planning to just blow that money before you kick the can?

We came from poverty, so I am giving most to charity, each kid gets $500k and must build their own fortune and future.

I say this will all due respect: you're a sucker.

Sure, make some important donations. But put most of it in a trust and put some tight strings on distributions so your kids don't become bottle service degens and eat into the corpus. This is how rich (white) American families stay rich for generations. You broke the cycle and now you need to pay it forward.

There is an ancient Chinese proverb, which goes like this: 富 不过三代 Fu bu guo san dai --> Translation: “Wealth does not pass three generations”. This is consistently true for thousand of years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I’m no Bezos fan but this is Jassey who is a weak CEO.

Amazon, Google and Meta are aging and haven’t had a win in longtime. They’ve approached market saturation and declining market share. The layoffs are all about keeping the stock up. Their only lever to not bleed is to announce layoffs aka operational cost reduction before the next reports.

It’s also a mechanism to lower or keep salaries down. During the pandemic and even several years prior, these companies were burning cash with massive hire to keep talent away from competitors. They created a frenzy of insane recruitment offers. They all also obsessively copy each other.

They don't keep experienced, skilled people and fire them. Managers manage, but they often lack in-depth knowledge of the products or systems. Jassey was good with AWS, not Amazon. They don't do anything new or creative and their aging systems are not updated as many don't know how to update the legacy systems and it's not a priority. They got away from being a customer-driven company and the competitive, cut-throat environment is toxic. There is no teaching and mentoring.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are these the H1B holders?

No, MAGAtard!

H1B holders are needed to do the work because Americans lack talent. According to Trump - we need chip makers and he is not talking pringles!! Oh lordy lord lord!!

Stop eating chips, become fit, then go on OF to make a killing.

Watch from 1:00

[Anonymous]

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

We just go back to the old ways, where you got the good job because of who you know and maybe your gender and race, like the old days. Meritocracy, high tech degrees, hardly knew you.

Getting jobs due to those things was the past few years of dei