Engineering cuts: Why are we prioritizing headcount over product stability?

It’s beyond frustrating to watch leadership brag about data center growth in the press while simultaneously gutting the engineering teams responsible for the actual delivery. I’ve been through a few cycles in this industry, and the current strategy feels like a desperate play to appease shareholders before the end of the fiscal year. You can’t just shift focus to ARM and AI servers overnight by cutting the very people who have the institutional knowledge to make that transition viable. The incompetence at the top is staggering. Instead of fixing the pipeline issues or addressing the technical debt that's been piling up for years, they’re just slashing the bottom line to make the margins look prettier on the next earnings call. I’ve seen two of my best leads accept offers elsewhere in the last month because they saw the writing on the wall. If we lose the core talent, all the marketing slides in the world aren't going to save us from our competitors. AMD is turning into a hollow shell of the company it was even two years ago. If you’re still here, keep your LinkedIn updated and save your work, because loyalty clearly isn't part of the strategy anymore.