Amazon Cuts Opening For Software Development Jobs To 299 From 32,692 in May

theodp writes: In case there are any doubts that the hiring party is over at Amazon, the number of open jobs in the Software Development category has declined to 299 in January 2023 from 32,692 in May 2022, according to Amazon's Jobs site. Internet Archive captures of Amazon's Software Development jobs category show the number of open jobs declined from 32,692 in May to 31,840 in June, 30,124 in July, 24,747 in August, 17,141 in September, 2,829 in November, and 373 in December.

The number of Software Development job openings currently stands at 299 (164 of those in the U.S.), or less than 1% of the 32,692 May job openings. Declaring that 'the U.S. isn't producing nearly enough students trained in computer science to meet the future demands of the American workforce,' Amazon in May publicly called on Congress and legislatures across the U.S. to support and fund CS education in public schools to 'create a much-needed pipeline of talent that will carry us into the future.' And in July, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy joined other Tech Giant CEOs as signatories to a public letter calling for state governments and education leaders to bring more CS to K-12 students.

'The USA has over 700,000 open computing jobs but only 80,000 computer science graduates a year,' the 'CEOs for CS' explained. 'We must educate American students as a matter of national competitiveness.' Days later, 50 of the nation's Governors accepted the challenge, signing a Compact To Expand K-12 Computer Science Education in their states and territories. Last fall, a new Amazon-bankrolled $15 million CS curriculum aimed at dramatically boosting the number of high school students who take the Java-based AP CS A course was rolled out nationwide (Java founder and AWS employee James Gosling recently noted that 'A lot of the guts of AWS is Java, and AWS has a pretty big Java team'). And in December, Amazon News reported that '600,000 students across 5,000 schools received computer science education through the Amazon Future Engineer 'childhood-to-career' program.'

The next business day, the Financial Times reported that Amazon had delayed start dates for some university graduates who had been set to the join the company in May 2023, blaming the 'macroeconomic environment' and telling students they would now not be able to begin until the end of 2023. The FT article followed an NY Times report on the shrinking Big Tech job market faced by CS students.

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