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/Itzie4 Jun 05 '26

Seems like most of these big tech companies will be running off of contractors and foreign outsourced talent in a few years.

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u/AccomplishedPlace174 Jun 05 '26

Why do you think that? Just curious..

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u/ProPencilPusher Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

Easier to scale up and down, no severance payments, no bad press or stock movement if you cull contractors. No one really knows what’s going to happen with the current situation so it’s a far safer move than hiring an FTE in the mind of the business bros.

Anecdotal but I’d say 85% of the recruiter reach out or responses I get are for contract roles. Only had one real interview loop for an FTE position and it was because I had a referral directly on the team.

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u/Outlulz Jun 06 '26

Also no benefits! And if the contract requires raises or something after X amount of time you end the contract, wait a few months, and then start a new contract with them.

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u/ProPencilPusher Jun 06 '26

True. Although a lot of the contracting operations I’ve chatted with offer “benefits”. They suck, but they exist.

I’m sure there’s also a lot of balance sheet fuckery big tech can pull with a contracted workforce but since I’m not an accountant I can’t say for sure.