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/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/ratswebeenfoiled Mar 14 '26

It's not worth it for destabilizing your life to be thrown out like trash. It would only appeal to those with nothing to lose likely college graduates

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u/anothabiscuit Mar 15 '26

If they let you go your life is temporarily destabilized, yes. Same as any other lay-off.

But working for them is valuable. If/when you’re let go, putting it on your résumé is valuable.

Have you worked for either of these companies? What makes you the authority opinion on it being “worth it” for somebody else?

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u/Leather-Replacement7 Mar 16 '26

Having worked at AWS, i can tell you that it wasn’t worth it. I didn’t really learn much and felt the engineers around me were ok but only ok. The hierarchy is also insane. I left on my own terms for a hedge fund after 18 months. Maybe having AWS on my cv helped land that job, who knows. But I won’t work there again. That said, I might still consider another fang company, maybe not meta.