The CEO of AWS on why Amazon is hiring 11,000 interns and junior employees
AWS CEO Matt Garman discusses Amazon's plan to hire 11,000 interns and junior employees, emphasizing the company's long-term investment in early-career talent to build a strong pipeline for the future, even as AI reshapes the tech industry and workforce needs.
Background
Matt Garman is CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's largest cloud-computing platform, which powers much of the internet and AI industry. Amazon recently announced it will hire 11,000 interns and junior employees across AWS — a notable stance given the widespread narrative that AI is eliminating entry-level tech jobs. The debate Garman is wading into: whether AI will replace junior developers (the "junior dev apocalypse" view) or whether companies still need to invest in training a pipeline of junior talent. AWS is also being squeezed between cloud rivals Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, while Amazon itself has driven cost-cutting across its own businesses.