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.

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.

So the fed is getting the unemployment it wanted?

Not necessarily. A lot of people other than engineers work in AWS, ad tech and twitch.

It's not stated whether the roles are engineering ones or PMs.

There are a ton of non-engineering roles at those divisions ...

downvoting me isn't changing the rate of layoffs kids

you can't wish this away