Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency

Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by ericmcer on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:04PM (#46798112)

"moved wherever the company needed me and fixed problems that had been sitting untouched because no one else could untangle them."

A screenshot later on shows he was a manager who spent his entire career in Houston. So... he didn't move and I associate "untangling difficult problems" as something an engineer should brag about not a manager.

Reads like AI generated slop that doesn't correlate with the actual situation.

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Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by khazhoux on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:25PM (#46798507)

I took “moved wherever the company needed me” as hopping from troubled project to project to help fix. This is often what the most senior engineers do, and also the Manager label doesn’t necessarily mean much in this context.

Not AI.

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Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by lewisleclerc on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:43PM (#46803426)

I thought it was fairly obvious too. We have a few of the most senior engineers being assigned to multiple critical initiatives just because they've led others successfully

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Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by albatross79 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @03:27PM (#46801051)

Yeah these bums better get with the program. If The Company needs you to uproot your life and move to Timbuktu start packing or hit the bricks pal.

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