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Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts by techperson20007 on Monday March 20, 2023 @12:37PM (#35234250)
Where is the data on "majority of over-hiring was engineering-adjacent roles"?

I keep seeing folks say this but I don't know if it is true. I just looked at some layoff lists from Twitter on layoffs.fyi and the vast majority looked to be Software Engineers of some shape or form.

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Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts by ljm on Monday March 20, 2023 @12:43PM (#35234357)
I think Twitter in that case is a massive outlier because of who acquired it and how.

Layoffs in the companies I personally know about have affected software engineers but have massively affected back-office staff and other business functions.

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