This round our org got hit way harder than the October one (AWS). We just lost almost 3 full teams of ~8 engineers each, solid folks, most of them US citizens because our work used to require access to secure data.
Skip was straight-up telling people not to worry, that we’d “backfill” these roles soon… in India. Like it’s no big deal to wipe out these new grads and mid-levels who’ve been grinding here, just to save a buck for the shareholders. I don’t have kids but I think about those new grads all day today. They are someone’s kids, who went to the best CS schools and grinded their asses off to get a job here, and now they’re just getting replaced like nothing.
Today really hit me. Walked into standup and I’m literally the only non-Indian left in my entire org. I know you read that and thought I’m exaggerating. I’m not. Feels like I’m a stranger in what used to be my home. Corporate greed wins again, and politicians who left their citizens to protect the companies by importing labor and keeping blind eyes on offshore.
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