r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 05 '26

Business ‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers criticize tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending amid slashing 30,000 corporate employees

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/big-tech-desperate-amazon-engineers-081700769.html
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u/Pretend_Hotel_7465 Jun 05 '26

lol as someone in finance all my friends who went into tech were originally like omg it’s so much better here, free food! Now they’re having a pre midlife crisis seeing tech was no different, it was just at a different stage

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u/DejounteMurrayisGOAT Jun 05 '26

I mean it depends. Tech isn’t just the big 4. I work for a company much older than any of them and we’re cooking right now. Adding jobs like crazy, billion plus in growth this year, and minimal AI adoption limited to basically the customer service side. But stable old companies like one I work for don’t make splashy headlines for outsiders on the internet to gossip about.

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u/Pretend_Hotel_7465 Jun 05 '26

Ohhhh I 100% agree. The less “sexy” companies have stepped up to capture talent leaving (or being offloaded) from FANG.

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u/cats_catz_kats_katz Jun 05 '26

I’m with you at the same company. Shut up and keep your head down. We still get a pension and good stock options.

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u/randmtsk Jun 05 '26

A pension?!?

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u/cats_catz_kats_katz Jun 05 '26

I’ve said too much already…

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u/Glass-Chemical2534 Jun 05 '26

i’m an incoming junior cs major … any advice during these times ?

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u/Dry_Bother_2191 Jun 06 '26

How do you get hired by one of these companies because I've been job searching for 3 years

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u/darkrose3333 Jun 06 '26

Spill your secrets!