Paid millions for a movie and then lays off thousands of employees.

... the boot steps on you.

10k layoffs here, 12k there, and so on?

Anyone?

https://x.com/thejobchick/status/2016652462820905324

Various locations in WA listed as closure

Amazon is reducing their employee count in Seattle. When the dust settles there will be 1/10 the number of employees working in that building as there are now.

lots of goodbye posts

What to expect for Asia region layoff for this latest round of cut? Anyone heard anything?

speaking only from my own expereince, i find myself conflicted about how easy it feels to change roles at amazon once you are inside the inner circle. on one hand, that fluidity creates opprotunity and can feel empowering, but it also leaves me... — read more 

From Phone #: 51270 From Amazon: Before coming to the office, check personal/work email or https://magnolia.amazon.com/owa including spam, for a message on you…

Management Analyst (Team Lead) Office of Intelligence Operations Location: Washington, DC Salary: 121,785 per year Employment type: Full-time Posted: 2 days ago Key points: Federal government role Team leadership responsibilities IT coordination and... — read more 

Hi, I wanted to follow up on Beth Galetti’s post about organizational changes to A to Z earlier today. As Beth noted, this is a continuation of the work we've been doing for more than a year to strengthen the company by reducing layers, increasing... — read more 

How many jobs were lost at IAD 21 in this most recent RIF?

It’s finally happening, the first salvo of the monthly layoffs at Amazon.

"Some of you might ask if this is the beginning of a new rhythm – where we announce broad reductions every few months." Yes! Like all tech companies! Riffing, rhythm, what else? Hip hop? Agents?

That's $309M cash plus $600M refunds over failed return processing. Also twice as much as the Saks loss... Now Amazon will increase Prime by $10/month and layoff 16000. Brilliant way to pass on the costs!

Is Amazon laying off caretakers and giving discounted soap to Engineers for kitchen cleaning? Or is it the dawn of a Day 2 era? Probably the latter. Layoffs only prove management incompetence - essentially a Bandaid batch for much bigger problems... — read more 

Prime Video lost its bet on The Rings of Power and now it's repeating the failure with Melania just to score a few political favors with Trump. Then it sacked Jen Salke. Reports say the new movie about Melania Trump has flopped at the box office... — read more 

Amazon inadvertently announces cloud unit layoffs in email to employees https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/01/27/amazon-inadvertently-sends-email-to-employees-confirming-wednesday-layoffs.html

From an internal board: What you’ll find out on 1/28 You wake up at 10:00 a.m. for your 10:00 standup. You open your laptop, planning to tell the team you have no updates. You try to log into your Mac. It doesn’t work. Panic sets in. *Oh no—I'm... — read more 

Any cuts at Alexa teams?

Managers do RIF training on Jan 27 and then the RIF happens during Jan 28, 29. A terrific way to end employee suffering at earth's most toxic employer!

Layoffs in May too, right? Now that's layoffship in 2026!

If your director cancelled morning meetings today your org is in the receiving end of the layoffs.

Amazon has announced a new round of layoffs as part of its plan to eliminate 30,000 corporate jobs. The latest cuts will remove 14,000 corporate positions across Amazon Web Services (AWS), retail, Prime Video and human... — read more 

I've always wanted to work at Amazon and I've been applying for a while, but with all the cuts, I'm starting to think there's no point in it anymore. I don't want to leave a somewhat safe position to start a new job even if it is my dream job just to... — read more 

Layoffs galore… That’s why software engineers need unions too - the time to organize was when we still had leverage.

Amazon plans a second round of corporate job cuts next week, aiming to eliminate about 30,000 white-collar roles in total, according to sources cited by Reuters. Roughly 14,000 corporate jobs were already cut in October, and the... — read more 

WARN's are filed. CA shows 1550 in numbers. Layoff on 1/26

URA solution worse than the problem.... Why stack rank across an individual team? It's myopic. If a team only has high performers and you're forced to cut by dishonestly ranking three reports as "least effective", then what's the point? Those... — read more 

Because Amazon has weak management and poor hiring practices. Extra points for the silent firing of disabled employees, denying them appropriate work from home accommodations.

I gave up on this place a long time ago. It's just the paycheck, and not exactly one to write home about. I've been working really hard on finding something else. Compared to Amazon, the grass is greener elsewhere by definition.

Interesting to see how the Amazon layoffs news spread across 52 different sources over the past few days. You can track the timeline of how this story evolved at https://yandori.io/news-flow/ - shows which outlets broke it first and how it propagated... — read more 

Worst company in the world. Should not be part of the FAANG group

14,000 +16,000=30,000 Ex-AWS-ers getting ready for "Tell me about a time...." x 25 in one loop interview

Amazon's job cuts to affect AWS, retail, HR units CEO Jassy attributes cuts to company culture, not financial or AI reasons Layoffs represent nearly 10% of Amazon's corporate... — read more 

Is Amazon ever planning to stop? What, does Bezos need another mega-yacht? What the he-l is happening to this place?

Many thousands of managers with under 8 direct reports -- too much fat. Trim those managers and split their reports from the managers with over 14 direct reports.

Has anyone heard new about layoffs in emerging markets such project Kuiper / Amazon music group (DISCO)?