Meh ... From their announcement:

we will hire backfills to replace employees who move on to new opportunities, and there are some targeted places where we will continue to hire people incrementally

Yeah, I don’t think it’s doom and gloom.

But I also don’t think it’s prudent to say “don’t worry about that layoff, you’ll get a new BigTech job tomorrow!”

Times are weird.

As long as Amazon isn't stopping the usual Q4 hiring spikes in operations, Amazon should overall be fine.

Recruiters are actually slow in this development, because it happens last night after 8 PM PST.

Effectively no offer would be able to generate through the system.

I would say the Amazon spam will go away for next 6 months if not longer.

Funny, I did my first interview with them a week ago.

You and I have different definitions of funny.

I am not a native English speaker. Here I used funny as a synonim for strange, which is probably a mistake due to me extracting most of my English knowledge from Hollywood films.

For a moment I thought you outed yourself as German, because a sentence like: “Komisch, ich hatte ein Interview mit ihnen letzte Woche.” works just fine. But we German’s have no sense of humor so I’ve heard. Also an explanation.

>But we German’s have no sense of humor so I’ve heard.

That's how Germans are perceived but having met Germans I know that's totally not the case.

Your use of funny was appropriate here.

Your use of sarcasm is spot on though

Someone should tell the two recruiters in my inbox...