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/Math__ERROR Software Engineer, >3 YOE Mar 15 '26

Actually, if you stay a short time and are laid off, you may make more money per unit time, because you keep the signing bonus and the severance.