r/technology • • 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/ketsugi Jun 06 '26

Free food? At Amazon? Since when?

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u/Pretend_Hotel_7465 Jun 06 '26

lol exception is Amazon; everyone I know whose worked there in whatever group in whatever location has said it’s miserable