AMAZON IS FIRING AMERICAN SOFTWARE ENGINEERS... HIRING FOREIGN ONES AND REPLACING THE REST WITH ROBOTS 121 more jobs cut in Washington State, effective October 1. We dug into got cut: • Entry-level software engineers • Applied scientists • Senior software managers • A legal department VP • Warehouse workers at the Sumner fulfillment center That’s on top of several thousand WA jobs already gone. Same fiscal year, same company: • 20,007 H-1B labor condition applications filed across all Amazon entities • Number 1 employer in America, nearly 3x Google at 7,362 • Median wage on those filings: $142,800 Most of those filings are for computer science roles. The same roles being cut in Bellevue. And the robots: • Over 1 million robots already working in Amazon warehouses • 1.56 million human workers • CEO Andy Jassy’s stated goal: robots performing 80% of fulfillment center tasks by 2035 New grads locked out. Senior engineers cut. Warehouse jobs automated. All three lanes closing at once.