I wonder how many people just shitcanned by Amazon Prime Video are H1-b workers.
https://x.com/TechLayoffLover/status/2030650290546901148
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO BLOODBATH
2,847 employees got the email at 6:47 AM PST
"Your role has been eliminated effective immediately"
Badges dead by 7:15 AM. Slack access revoked mid-sentence
Senior engineers who built the entire streaming infrastructure. Gone
The team that shipped 40% faster last quarter using Claude for code generation. Eliminated
847 contractors in Bangalore just got handed their prompt libraries and deployment scripts
Same streaming platform. Same feature velocity expected
14 remaining Seattle engineers to "manage AI-augmented offshore delivery"
The kicker: those eliminated seniors spent 8 months documenting every architectural decision into internal wikis
Every code pattern. Every debugging workflow. Every performance optimization trick
That documentation just became training data for the AI systems replacing them
VP of Engineering sent company-wide: "This transition represents our commitment to AI-first development"
Severance packages include mandatory 90-day non-compete clauses
Meanwhile the Bangalore team already pushed 12 commits using the extracted knowledge base
One former L7 told me: "I literally trained the AI that made me redundant"
If you're at FAANG and not seeing this coming you're already dead
DMs open for anyone who needs to talk
Layoff 2800 Indians in the USA and send the AI babysitting jobs to India.