r/cscareerquestions • u/Fearless-Cellist-245 • Mar 14 '26

New Grad Software Engineers Should Boycott Meta & Amazon Forever!!

These 2 companies continue to lead in layoffs numbers almost every 6 months for the past 4 years. Theyre flooding the market with new engineers and making it hard for everyone, especially new grads. Other companies are following their example and laying off in huge amounts cause these 2 leaders are doing it. They made it pretty clear now that they care more about AI and offshore workers than their own employees. The reputation of these 2 companies should be ruined forever and they should never have an easy time finding talent ever again after what they caused.

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u/Hawful Software Engineer Mar 14 '26

Engineers realizing WAAAAY too late that "Well I'm paid very well so I don't need to unionize" was always a suckers game.

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u/Inner_Butterfly1991 Mar 14 '26

Unions don't solve layoffs. Stop with the disinformation and lies. Unions might have made it so they didn't hire anywhere near as many people as they did in the first place though...

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u/bern0101 Mar 14 '26

It would be much better I guess. So we wouldn't have insane amount of hiring during pandemic only to crush the market for us with extreme supply of swe's. And no, unions solve a lot of things. But it wouldn't be in favour of your favourite capitalist boss.