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Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by meindnoch on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:55AM (#35232402)
Yep. Those who "work in tech" are in for a rude awakening.

Engineers, programmers, hackers on the other hand are gonna be just fine. Same as the past 50 years.

Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by abudabi123 on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:23AM (#35232882)
Jensen H looks and sounds tickettyboo and his vision of A.I. meets physical world is spot on when you see SpaceX launch automation removing the majority of human voices out of the loop.
Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by roflyear on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:07AM (#35232600)
Yeah. This makes me really happy I did not transition to some soft-skill based job. Soft skills are really important, but if all I had going for me right now is "management experience" I'd be more worried.
Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by siva7 on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:13AM (#35232691)
Many of these purely soft-skill based jobs in tech departments are part of some agile enterprise frameworks. Yet i don't have the impression they are fading away.
Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by aaomidi on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:23AM (#35232884)
I don’t think engineers have been less impacted than managers tbqh.
Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by newaccount2023 on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:56AM (#35232423)
> Engineers, programmers, hackers on the other hand are gonna be just fine

and yet this is exactly where the layoffs are happening...AWS, ad tech, twitch

Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by eysquared on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:21AM (#35232838)
AWS has a ton of non-engineering staff. Ad-tech is also sales, marketing, and IMDb. Twitch has a ton on marketing and creator management roles.

Its not clear which roles will be eliminated, but I've worked in a few of those groups and I can assure you there is plenty of fat to be trimmed outside of engineering.

Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by mrleinad on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:02AM (#35232503)
I don't think layoffs would be a problem in itself. Most likely smaller companies would benefit from the surge in offer and capture those talents.

The problem there is that smaller companies are suffering a capital shortage due to the raise of interest rates at the same time, so they have less resources available to capture said talents.

Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by aaomidi on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:24AM (#35232896)
So the fed is getting the unemployment it wanted?
Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by Ankhers on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:58AM (#35232455)
Not necessarily. A lot of people other than engineers work in AWS, ad tech and twitch.
Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by bagacrap on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:58AM (#35232445)
It's not stated whether the roles are engineering ones or PMs.
Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by roflyear on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:08AM (#35232608)
There are a ton of non-engineering roles at those divisions ...
Re:Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs by newaccount2023 on Monday March 20, 2023 @12:34PM (#35234183)
downvoting me isn't changing the rate of layoffs kids

you can't wish this away