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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by ericmay on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @07:49PM (#34254301)
Or maybe the MBA graduates are just fixing the sinking ship that engineering teams created with over-promising technology and demanding growth for their teams so that they could get bigger budgets: VR, meal delivery, AI, etc. ?

I have an MBA man I wish I was one of these master of the universes deciding to hire and fire 17,000 people at a company. Do you need the Stanford MBA, Harvard, Wharton? Does Berkeley suffice these days or do you still need the private Ivy League degree first?

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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by mancerayder on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:56PM (#34255745)
I thought product teams were responsible for that. Engineers just do.
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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by ericmay on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:43PM (#34256060)
In the business world the engineers are like the Wehrmacht.
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