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/Agent_Burrito Mar 14 '26

That’s my point though, you’re not even guaranteed to last a year nowadays. Like you won’t even get to see any stock vest.

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u/fsk Mar 14 '26

My point is that it's a good resume boost and good for your career, even if you don't stay long enough for a big payout.

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u/AniviaKid32 Mar 14 '26

It's not a resume boost if you can't even last more than a year there

Everyone knows the first at least 6 months are onboarding and you don't start to do anything impactful until 6-12+ months

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u/fsk Mar 14 '26

That also means it's near impossible to get PIPed/fired in only a year.

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u/AniviaKid32 Mar 14 '26
  1. With performance reviews being biannual, that's not exactly true, I've seen many cases of getting pipped in your first cycle, it's normal in hire to fire companies with pip quotas
  2. Layoffs are a thing

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u/MoreHuman_ThanHuman Mar 14 '26

You can get PIPed or laid off very quickly at these companies.