[hi-v-rocknroll]

Similar at Meta. (AWS and Microsoft have always been moderately shitty.) Pennywise pound-foolish tactics lead to a decline of magic and cool some companies once had, now creating and becoming megacorp cliches unnecessarily. Competitive, ostentatious cuts are business theater and herd mentality that undermines the fabric of a company's culture. And maximum uncertainty leads to many times more stress.

Is it as bad at Netflix or Apple? IIRC, Apple maintains more cultural stability than vacillating with the whims of investor pressures hand-wringing about "macro conditions".

Perhaps an inescapable conclusion is that megacorps were always, and always will be, too risky to work for. Us tech people should eschew megacorps and find alternative profitable products/services paths by forming many worker-owned co-ops that replace the functions of a MAANG, and organize into a confederation of loosely-coupled businesses able to compete with them with shared marketing, advertising, distribution, etc. infrastructure.