Just wanted to say: I feel for anyone impacted by this I truly hope that they're able to land on their feet and Amazon does right by them and gives a healthy severance. Least they could do.
Another quirk of this story in terms of how this makes me feel is that this makes me sad in a strange way: Amazon was my "fallback" job if my current job ever bit the dust and I couldn't find anything else relatively quickly.
Seemed like they were always hiring, and if I needed to eat, it would allow me to keep my standard of living for a 12-18 months while I figure things out. Best case: I somehow end up liking working there and stay for 4 years, worst case: I can keep my standard of living while the recession eases and move on to something else.
I will say, I got alot of recruiters from the Alexa division and I'm glad I didn't take them up now. AWS looks unaffected by this though.
Another quirk of this story in terms of how this makes me feel is that this makes me sad in a strange way: Amazon was my "fallback" job if my current job ever bit the dust and I couldn't find anything else relatively quickly.
Seemed like they were always hiring, and if I needed to eat, it would allow me to keep my standard of living for a 12-18 months while I figure things out. Best case: I somehow end up liking working there and stay for 4 years, worst case: I can keep my standard of living while the recession eases and move on to something else.
I will say, I got alot of recruiters from the Alexa division and I'm glad I didn't take them up now. AWS looks unaffected by this though.