Students and young workers from more than 120 universities have pledged to refuse work at Google and Amazon until the Israeli contract is dropped.

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More than 1,100 self-identified STEM students and young workers from over 120 universities have signed a pledge to not take jobs or internships at Google or Amazon until the companies end their involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract providing cloud computing services and infrastructure to the Israeli government.

  • @Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7•11 days ago

    I’ll say that if the really talented people are signing on to this, that could be noticeable. I know Amazon tends to just churn through devs every year, but actually good software engineers are surprisingly hard to find.

    • ScrubblesEnglish
      5•10 days ago

      They are, but I’m still disheartened. Googlers tried to take a stand last year and they immediately paid them all off