Layoffs

Amazon has started another wave of layoffs

Amazon Microsoft, Google, etc. All layying off people. They just started sending emails today morning for US/Canada. India/EU would be sent next week so we dont know the exact numbers yet. Same information going on Blind, hundreds of Amazon employees laid off in the morning.

Whats happening guys, any other teams impacted in India ??

Had heard from someone that there were layoffs supposed to happen this week at AWS. Just heard from a colleague that someone they know was asked to leave today. Does anyone know more?

Seems like Amazon again started another round of layoffs

People who were affected just got emails. Orgs include Search, Cloud, Ads , Assistant, Pixel, etc. Engg is affected

Got to know from my skip manager that there will be another round of layoffs starting Monday.

Read news recently about Amazon being set to lay off again with about 9000 employees. Hypocritically the same Amazon was found to be hiring a few days back for some roles in Customer Support and a few others.

Amazon Global Communications Operations Undergo Layoffs The spokesperson said- “We regularly review the structure of our teams and make adjustments based on the needs of the business and, following a recent review, we’ve made the difficult decision to eliminate a small number of roles on our communications team.” https://deadline.com/2023/10/amazon-communications-layoffs-1235565092/

Am seeing new posts about layoffs at Amazon are these new ? or part of the old one ?