nobody’s talking about this. former Amazon manager reveals the truth about tech layoffs: it’s not AI, it’s to “stop the bleeding of a rotting system”. > in 2019 Amazon had 800K people, > by 2021 it doubled to 1.6M > even in 2020 the massive hiring seemed suspicious at the company, and gimmicks like “return to office” policy were just to quietly push people out without paying the packages. the layoffs were going to happen and the employees could feel it. was AI a part of it? sure, but it only accelerated the inevitable. it’s just a good excuse. it seems better in front of the board that you’re going to invest in AI rather than “oh shit we over-hired and paid massive salaries to people we didn’t really need.”