These articles never make it easy to understand India impact

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Prime Video: https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10/amazonprimevideoandmgmstudioslaidoffhundredsofemployees/  Twitch: https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2024/01/10/adifficultupdateaboutourworkforce/  Prime Video...

Prime Video:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10/amazon-prime-video-and-mgm-studios-laid-off-hundreds-of-employees/

Twitch:
https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2024/01/10/a-difficult-update-about-our-workforce/

Prime Video teams in India also getting impacted?

Amazon layoffs continue: Prime Video now

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Amazon layoffs continue: Prime Video now- Grapevine

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/
2024-01-09/amazon-s-twitch-to-cut-500-employees-about-35-of-staff


Super surprised about this one, but seems more due to internal attrition and bad performance by twitch moreso than overhiring correction (~500)

Amazon to cut Twitch staff by 35%

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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/

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Which teams in India will get affected by recent Layoffs declared by Amazon?

Amazon Layoffs

“However aaj se Amazon me bhi firse lay off start ho gya 

So chances of external hires is way down”

This are the words from my friend who is working at amazon. How many impacted?

Layoff at amazon?

There have been some rumors and isolated reports of layoffs in Amazon India. Is there any truth to the story? If so, which teams have been impacted / are likely to be impacted?

Layoffs in Amazon India?

Google slowly laying off employees in one country after another is the most nerve wracking move. 
Couple days back they cut employees in Australia and similarly they keep laying off in a new country each week. Must be so enervating for employees. 

IMO meta and Amazon handled layoffs much better

Google slowly laying off

Product Marketing Manager

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.

More Layoffs have started

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Now that it's been a couple of days since the layoff news, was anyone in India affected ?

I could not find any mention on the previous posts

Indian layoff at Google / amazon

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A Bloomberg report revealed that Amazon has conducted yet another round of layoffs. And people working in its audio streaming platform have been affected. Sources told Bloomberg that employees from Amazon Music's editorial and audio content team have been given the pink slip.

An Amazon spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company has been keeping a close eye on their "organisational needs" and has been prioritising what matters the most to customers keeping the businesses long-term health in mind. To fulfil this, some roles in the Amazon Music Team have been eliminated. 

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/technology/news/story/amazon-layoffs-continue-company-fires-people-from-amazon-music-team-2460707-2023-11-09

One more round of Amazon layoffs

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Layoffs:

Global
- Stripe 14%
- Opendoor 18%
- Twitter 50%
- Delivery hero 
- Chime 12%

India
- Udaan (tranches)
- Chargebee 10%
- Byjus 5%

Hiring freeze:
- Apple
- Amazon

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What's happening in the latest round ? Which teams are impacted?

Latest Amazon layoffs

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Edtech startup Adda247 has fired around 250-300 employees across verticals, sources aware of the development told Entrackr.

Exclusive: Edtech startup Adda247 fires 300 employees

Layoff at Adda247

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Microsoft layoffs around 1,000 employees, affecting departments including the mixed reality team working on HoloLens 2. 

Google did 100 in GCP, more will come soon. 

#layoffs

MS layoff

According to a report, Amazon will be terminating 10,000 jobs starting this week, which represents less than 1% of its 1.5 million global employees and around 3% of the company's corporate staff.

Amazon to layoff 10,000 employees

Heard from multiple colleagues that they could cut Ads and AWA teams in India. Wouldn’t be surprised if this happens on Tuesday or Wednesday just before the earnings calls. 

All the best folks!

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Disney layoff 7000 employees as streaming subscription decline.

Disney Layoff

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Who are the teams being laid off in Amazon in India? Is it the operations staff, admin or the SDEs 1 or 2 or senior coders?

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