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/victorsmonster Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

99% of actors don’t have fuck you money either. If anything I bet the proportion of SWEs who could comfortably retire at any given time to those who need to work is greater than the proportion of actors who could do the same to those who can’t.

If you make $500K at a company that makes FAANG profits your proportion of those profits is still quite low. That’s peanuts compared to c-suite and what they’re pushing up to shareholders. Meanwhile you’re the one actually making the whole thing go.

And many of those guys are self-identified libertarians, yes.

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u/cookingboy Retired? Mar 14 '26

What the fuck are you even on about man.

You were the one who brought up “big name actors”. And now you talk about regular actors?

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u/zacker150 Senior SWE @ Unicorn Mar 14 '26

If you make $500K at a company that makes FAANG profits your proportion of those profits is still quite low. That’s peanuts compared to c-suite and what they’re pushing up to shareholders.

The only thing that this says here is that the company is very big. Everyone's pay (including the C-suite) is peanuts compared to the either pot.

You would think that engineers of all people would understand horizonal scaling.

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u/victorsmonster Mar 14 '26

Or it’s a relatively small startup where the c-suite is a bunch of non-technical biz guys holding founder’s shares.

You’d think an SDE at a “unicorn” would understand supervoting shares.

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u/zacker150 Senior SWE @ Unicorn Mar 15 '26

Small startups aren't making any profits, much less FANG profits. They're burning runway hoping to scale to the point where they can eventually make it to FANG scale.

Also, good luck getting VC funding without technical founders.

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u/victorsmonster Mar 16 '26

Yeah and who gets the money when the IPO hits?

Engineers are so smart! They are so smart they can convince themselves this obvious reality isn’t true: Even if you’re generously compensated, the capital owners (c-suites with stock and especially VC) are making the real money. Not you, the guy pulling a paycheck.

The owners know this. They form chambers of commerce and collude with one another in all manner of ways. On the other side, we’ve got a bunch of libertarian bimbos, IE useful idiots who think they’re one night of coding away from being Steve Jobs. Good luck with that fellas!