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Amazon cuts 16k jobs

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Post by incr_me »

echelon wrote: post #309
darth_avocado wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since the HN reaction to layoffs almost always is about blaming H1B, here’s a few more things the headline misses: 1. Cuts were global 2. Cuts in US also include H1B employees 3. 16000 roles are corporate roles, not just tech related, H1B program is not generally utilized for those roles 4. Expansion in India is not just tech. Amazon is a big retailer in India. Understandably if you’re seeing revenue growth in India,…

Shouldn't we all want H1B rather than offshoring? That keeps the facilities here, the local employment options here, the growth here, the tax base here... We should want more smart people moving to this country. More business creation, more capital, more labor, more output. Immigration is total economic growth for America, non zero-sum. Offshoring is not only economic loss, but second order loss: we lose the capacity…

Wait why doesn't India get to have these things, too?

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Post by ribosometronome »

guerrilla wrote: post #529
tchalla wrote: post #97

Interesting perspective of an L7 who was laid off at Amazon https://xcancel.com/PlumbNick/status/2016500347053773198

I'm not reading all that. I thought tweets were supposed to be short. What the hell happened?

The sink got let in.

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Post by mkw5053 »

I'm currently hiring engineering roles in SF for my startup. I am in the middle of closing my $1.5M pre-seed this week so I don't have job descriptions posted yet. But, here's a short pitch:

AI agents are about to orchestrate trillions in commerce, but today they shop on thin data: product specs, studio photos, and text reviews. Agents need evidence, not marketing. Today, the most influential product evidence lives on TikTok and Reels, outside the surfaces brands control and agents can use. Vidably puts verified buyer video directly onto e-commerce product pages through a lightweight widget. We capture that video post-purchase and link it to real purchasing outcomes. Every video is SKU-linked and structured so shopping agents can reason over it. The widget is the wedge, the dataset is the moat.

We're already live with brands and are seeing pull from both brands and creators and I would love for anyone interested to DM me!

Edit: I'm an idiot, HN doesn’t have DMs. Email me at hn at vidably dot com.

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Post by zwaps »

signal11 wrote: post #501
conscion wrote: post #304

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> Actual effective managers do much more And how many managers are effective vs. only information funnels?

Even “only” information funnels have value if they seek out valuable info, filter, curate. In reality some funnels in this context mutate the message they’re supposed to pass on :-)

LLMs do all that pretty well :-)

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Post by izzydata »

carlcortright wrote: post #482
mrtksn wrote: post #472

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TBH the last 20-30 years was exactly like that but computers were eliminating other peoples jobs for really good profits for the investors and really good salaries for the workers doing the elimination. Before that people were eliminating blue colar workers with highly productive machines and industrial robots. I don't see how eliminating your co-workers is any different. Software ate the world and now AI will eat th…

this is a very pessimistic take could be, but the universe is odd in so many different ways it's hard to be sure

It feels more like a really optimistic take on AI. I won't say it is impossible, but I haven't seen anything that suggests AI is going to do what OpenAI and Nvidia claims it will.

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Post by KittenInABox »

mkw5053 wrote: post #553

I'm currently hiring engineering roles in SF for my startup. I am in the middle of closing my $1.5M pre-seed this week so I don't have job descriptions posted yet. But, here's a short pitch: AI agents are about to orchestrate trillions in commerce, but today they shop on thin data: product specs, studio photos, and text reviews. Agents need evidence, not marketing. Today, the most influential product evidence lives o…

There's no DM capacity on HN.

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Post by guerrilla »

maxbond wrote: post #545
guerrilla wrote: post #529

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not reading all that. I thought tweets were supposed to be short. What the hell happened?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_limit#On_Twitter > In November 2017, Twitter increased its character limit from 140 to 280 characters. In 2023, Twitter boosted the character limit for Twitter Blue subscribers. In February, it was increased to 4000. In April, it was again increased to 10,000, and in June, to 25,000.

I remember 280, but jesus things clearly got out of control.

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Post by learingsci »

shartshooter wrote: post #144

This summer I went camping and at the campground next to me was a middle manager at Amazon. I’ve been out of the workforce for about a year, so I asked him how much of an impact AI was having in his role. He told me that he had worked to develop a tool that would replace effectively all of the middle management function that he was responsible for: gathering information from folks below him, distilling it down and re…

Where was he from? Recent hires are sometimes the first to go, depending on certain other factors.

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Post by reliabilityguy »

romanovcode wrote: post #132

- September 2025: US imposes additional 100k USD per visa as a condition to eligibility. (previous was 5k - 20k USD) - October 2025: Amazon cuts 14k jobs - December 2025: Amazon announces additional 35b USD investment to India (total 75b USB by 2030); promises to create ~1m jobs there - December 2025: Random H1B lottery is dismantled, giving preference to higher company salary spending e.g. the more salary H1B applic…

Can you explain in more details how changing h1b rules leads to layoffs?
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