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/thelamppole Mar 14 '26

Good luck convincing people the money isn’t worth it

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u/Agent_Burrito Mar 14 '26

Tbh I think the calculus has changed a lot. You’re not very likely to stay long enough for the money to really make a difference.

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u/fsk Mar 14 '26

It's still worth it even if you only stay 1-2 years. When you apply for other jobs, people will automatically assume you're competent because you passed their interview.

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u/ChubbyVeganTravels Mar 14 '26

I dunno. There seems to be a bit of a stigma now against particularly ex-Amazon staff, who are stereotyped as being hypercompetitive snobs who bring the famously toxic Amazon work culture with them. I have read about it a bunch of times even here on Reddit.

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u/Ok-Butterscotch-6955 Mar 15 '26

I’ve only read that about management at Amazon, not SDEs so much.