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Amazon Plans to Hire 11,000 Interns and Graduates in 2026
AWS CEO Matt Garman said the company will continue recruiting entry-level talent next year. He argued that replacing junior roles with AI is not cost-effective and would harm long-term company health.
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Amazon plans to hire 11,000 interns and recent graduates in 2026, AWS CEO Matt Garman said in a Platformer podcast episode released this week. Fortune reported. Garman stated that displacing junior engineers with AI is not a cost-effective strategy because those workers are paid the least.
He added that eliminating entry-level positions would remove the talent pipeline that supplies fresh ideas and future leaders. “At some point that whole thing explodes on itself,” Garman said. ” Garman’s position differs from warnings issued by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who said AI will displace entry-level workers, and Ford CEO Jim Farley, who said the technology will wipe out half of white-collar jobs.
Garman said Amazon currently employs more software developers than it did two years ago. A Stanford University study published in August 2025 found that AI has had a significant and disproportionate impact on entry-level U.S. workers, particularly 22- to 25-year-old software engineers and customer service agents.
The unemployment rate for recent college graduates stands at 5.6 percent, compared with the general U.S. rate of 4.2 percent. That gap first appeared six months before November 2022. Amazon announced in October 2025 that it would cut 14,000 jobs, mostly middle-management positions.
Earlier in 2025 the company laid off workers from AWS, Wondery, and its consumer-devices unit. CEO Andy Jassy said those reductions were driven by culture, not AI or finances at the time. A June 2025 Amazon memo stated that AI efficiency gains will reduce the company’s total corporate workforce.
A New York Times investigation published in October 2025 reported that Amazon aims to automate 75 percent of its work, equivalent to about 600,000 positions it would not need to hire.
