Amazon has been laying off staff en masse this year, axing over 16,000 employees in 2026 so far. Meanwhile, fears about AI taking white-collar jobs are everywhere, with programming one of the many fields that experts are saying are primed for disruption.
However, the CEO of cloud computing giant Amazon is promising the company will continue to invest in new software engineers. At Amazon’s What’s Next with AWS event earlier this week, AWS CEO Matt Garman said, “We are hiring just as many software developers as we ever have inside of Amazon.” In fact, despite the fears, he said he sees demand for developers “really accelerating.”
At the event, first reported by Business Insider, he said Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, in line with previous years.
But he also outlined plenty of caveats, saying the jobs “will be a little bit different.”
“Being an expert at being able to author a Java code snippet is going to be less…
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