I started an AWS loop interview on the morning when 14,000 Amazon employees were laid off. My first question to the hiring manager was " How is your day going?" and the response was this is a terrible day to interview, you will need to reschedule with another hiring manager. I continue to the other scheduled interviews and was met with resentment, emotions and I did not get the job. I wrote this post to give other potential applicants a heads ups. Although, it's understandable that I would receive resentment and emotions on that morning when 14,000 employees were receiving text messages and emails stating they were impacted. However, beware that some of the resentment and emotion towards new applicants just might linger on for awhile.
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Were employees kept 90 days on payroll and asked to find job internally ?
GCP and Azure is where it's at.
@OP At a minimum the AWS reign is over.
Are the rest 16000 layoffs positions and numbers already mentioned on the WARN layoffs list?
You couldn't have picked a stupider place to interview. Even if you were matched to the perfect team and HR handled everything perfectly, you would be out in a year tops.
You were saved. Even interviews in the brightest of times for Amazon were train wrecks. Managers have huge egos there, which came through on interviews. Everyone I know that worked there hated it. Sounds like managers might be paying the price finally.
Nevermind 14000. There will be more layoffs very soon (after re:Invent).