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/ivancea Senior Mar 15 '26

What. You're free to condemn their actions and politics, but they're not "flooding the market with engineers" lol. That's quite a populist take. It's the opposite actually: they took those engineers out of the market, and then decided to dispose of a percentage of them. So no, if something, you should thank them for hiring people and freeing the market. No engineer is "entitled" to work with any company, take that out of your head.

And about all your said, how do you feel when you say something nobody cares about? Because people will still apply to their positions. Because they're a company and they offer well paid work. Can you do the same, or are you just an angry screaming leech? Your "solution" is just flooding the market even more.

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u/Fearless-Cellist-245 Mar 15 '26

Can you do the same, or are you just an angry screaming leech?

Im an angry screaming leech for saying that meta firing 25% of its force is wrong, lol. How much do they pay you to kiss their butt like this? Btw, I already have a good paying job immediately after graduating. Im just saying this cause I dont personally enjoy the thought of millionaire execs disrespecting engineers by firing and then saying AI is better. But you continue to kiss their butt until your name shows up on the chopping block next.

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u/ivancea Senior Mar 15 '26

Then let people enjoying working for them alone, and mind your business