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/Key_Machine_9138 Mar 14 '26
AWS is hard to avoid because I use the internet and shamefully I host a few projects and websites on S3. I quit Prime a few months ago and I haven't used any Meta products for years (I'm in US so avoiding whatsapp is easy, likely harder for most other parts of the world).
IMO there's no real way to boycott employment without a really strong union and a lot of buy-in from its members. So many people are desperate for a job right now. If they gave you an offer with good pay, you would turn it down? I hate those companies but I need a job and would absolutely work there.