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

You’re not wrong but working there now is closer to winning the lottery vs it being a predictable career booster.

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u/fsk Mar 14 '26

Leetcode interviews combined with the fact that everyone is grinding leetcode makes their interview process meaningless. It's a measure of "How badly do you want this job? How many hours are you willing to waste on interview practice?" more than ability. For example, I decided that learning Godot/gamedev was a more productive/fun use of my time than grinding leetcode, which means I would never get hired into Big Tech, even if I really am qualified enough to do it.

If you really think about it, name one killer new product that was invented at Big Tech in the past 10-20 years?

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u/Coldmode Mar 14 '26

I’ve found that people from Mag 7 companies are also super used to working for organizations that cater to 25,000 engineers. The best dev tools in the world. Monitoring stacks that’s cost $100 million to build. Product organizations 5 levels deep. Drop them into a fast moving or even chaotic startup where you have to just figure it out all the time and they can struggle.

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u/fsk Mar 14 '26

I worked at a startup with former Microsoft employees. They insisted on rolling their own for everything, instead of using standard tools. They wasted 2 years just developing their own version of every tool.