The CEO of AWS on why Amazon is hiring 11,000 interns and junior employees
Platformer Casey Newton
AWS CEO Matt Garman argues that AI will change jobs rather than eliminate them, citing Amazon's plan to hire 11,000 interns and junior employees this year. He noted that 90% of CIOs surveyed reported seeing materially positive ROI or a clear path to it on AI investments within the next couple of months, compared to none reporting positive returns a year prior. Garman maintains that historically, transformative technologies like Excel displaced certain roles but created new ones overall, and that willingness to learn is the most durable skill as job duties shift rapidly.
Why it matters
Matt Garman argues that junior employees are as necessary as ever. But AWS now sells agents that can recruit, code, and process claims. Will the balance hold?
