{"id":968055,"date":"2025-10-16T12:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968055"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:17:12","slug":"amazon-engineer-sends-letter-to-ceo-and-then-finds-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/16\/amazon-engineer-sends-letter-to-ceo-and-then-finds-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon engineer sends letter to CEO and then finds out\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Software engineer Ahmed Shahrour discovered the hard way that confronting a Big Tech CEO with \u201cthreats\u201d in the name of the \u201cPalestine cause\u201d can come at a heavy personal cost. Amazon has terminated a software engineer, Ahmed Shahrour, who worked for its Whole Foods division in Seattle, following a five-week suspension. The firing reportedly came after Shahrour posted messages on internal Slack channels criticising Amazon\u2019s involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software engineer Ahmed Shahrour discovered the hard way that confronting a Big Tech CEO with \u201cthreats\u201d in the name of the \u201cPalestine cause\u201d can come at a heavy personal cost. Amazon has terminated a software engineer, Ahmed Shahrour, who worked for its Whole Foods division in Seattle, following a five-week suspension. The firing reportedly came after Shahrour posted messages on internal Slack channels criticising Amazon\u2019s involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}