One of things I am observing in most of the layoffs post at LinkedIn or Blind are indicating that majority of layoffs happened in Meta and Amazon are into Data Science, AI and ML. Twitter might be different, hard to say. Do you have similar observations? #tech #meta #Twitter #Google #Amazon #aws #layoffs #jobs
Someone familiar with the business side in my org (not Amazon or Meta) mentioned that our org is profitable…unlike AI/ML which is a huge cost center that has delivered no noteworthy revenue. It really makes me wonder.
So you want to say that AI/ML is worst impacted?
Yes.
Nah. ML is bread and butter now for ads. It’s here to stay. Not to say they can’t be fired, but if they work in a profitable org they’re as safe as a swe.
I have not observed that to be the case. But for Amazon devices, it can be true because lots of development is in discovery of new uses, and that takes science effort. So in economic downturns those will get deprioritized. Whereas in META it was more of a broader cut where teams are halved or eliminated whether it is SDE, TPM, or DS. But definitely I have seen recruiters being out of jobs and certain divisions which we all have seen.
The poll would have been better with the choose-any version instead of the choose-one. IMHO all is impacted. Obviously recruitment is impacted everywhere, but beyond that, everywhere else there was a bit of trimming (at least at the layoffs i directly saw)
Always be in money making tech family you will get promoted faster and less likely to get impacted by the recessions
At meta, business functions were most impacted. SWE, DS and others had a similar quota (6-7%), TPM had around 10%.
My ML E5 UK offer isn't rescinded yet. How do you see it
If I am being honest, I don’t know. If the offer still stands, I don’t foresee a near term impact.