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No wonder there are so many layoffs! 30000 employees laid off to recover $10B. Increase the price of Prime!

That's the kind of fu---d up world we're living in.

That's like the size of a fortunate 1000 company.

I thought Jassy wanted to get rid of bureaucracy? Guess not.

Amazon is eliminating 2,400 jobs in Washington state, a decision tied to a ten-year $100 billion investment into artificial intelligence technologies. This workforce reduction is scheduled to take effect in early 2026 as the company restructures its... — read more 

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-visa-delays-prompt-india-remote-work-with-strict-restrictions-2025-12

Our IT manager let it slip today saying Leadership wants to cut 20% of low performers in Seattle. The performance improvement plans were created by HR to make them extremely difficult to pass.

It's gonna be wild!! 16000 this time. That's like 57000 layoffs in the past few years, plus all of the silent layoffs/RTO/RTT/RTH (30000+). Something close to 25% of corporate.

While CEOs have spent months framing layoffs as a strategic shift toward AI-driven efficiency, the equity market has perceived recent layoff announcements as a negative signal about company’ prospects. "AI restructuring" is often a convenient cover... — read more 

Do you think there will be Amazon.com layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

Rohit Prasad: Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Amazon's artificial general intelligence (AGI) business is leaving at the end of December 2025. Robin Williams: The Vice President of Device Software and Services and a member of the elite... — read more 

Even outside the broader workforce reductions, individual sites can be reassessed and cut out of the blue. That’s not exactly shocking or entirely new, but it certainly adds to the stress and anxiety. We already knew that employee well-being and... — read more 

Amazon will lay off employees. A total of 84 workers will be affected. The layoffs will occur in Seattle and Bellevue. Impacted roles include engineering, recruiting, software development, and product management, affecting Seattle... — read more 

Amazon is laying off 370 employees at its European headquarters. These cuts represent about 8.5 percent of the workforce at that location. The layoffs primarily affect software developers as AI increasingly handles coding tasks. Amazon cited... — read more 

Pivot assignment: make Amazon stock price reach $350/share in the middle of 2026 without doing further layoffs (forced or RTO/silent).

Because, after Andy departs....

Just in time for the holidays!

Amazon’s record layoff plans this year have already drawn considerable attention, and the latest data shows that engineers at the organization faced a significant portion of the heat... — read more 

Hi all I’m in the loop process for a senior ish role (SCE Deal Lead). If you had the opportunity to tell someone if it was something they should do what would you say? Obviously I only hear the positive things during the loop process so very keen... — read more 

How many?

350000 employees (100000 low perf, 150000 med perf, 70000 high perf, 30000 exceeds perf) + AI 250000 employees (20000 medium perf, 170000 high perf, 60000 exceeds perf) + AI 200000 employees (20000 medium perf, 90000 high perf, 90000 exceeds... — read more 

There is a new top down order for the VP level stack ranking to be done by end of JAN and the bottom 20% to be part of the upcoming AWS layoff in FEB.

Amazon cut about 1,800 to 1,900 engineers across several hubs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster. Most layoffs are in Washington + New York + California.

Jan 31 @ 237. Apr 17 @ 172. Oct 17 @ $213. Nov 3 @ $254. Nov 20 @ $217. LAYOFFS!

120,000-140,000 corporate employees voluntarily departing in the next 2-3 months. Vote with your feet! Your signing bonus will be the severance that you're passing up.

For fans dreaming of returning to Middle-earth in a new, next-gen adventure, the news isn’t good. Amazon’s ambitious Lord of the Rings MMORPG, which had been in development since early 2023, has reportedly been cancelled... — read more 

Usually, people are thinking about whether they'll survive within their team. These latest layoffs are about whether the entire team will survive or not. I've never been through anything like this in my life, and I've been working for nearly three... — read more 

The recent round of Amazon corporate layoffs isn’t a sign of an imminent AI apocalypse. It's an expression of the company's brutal corporate culture, enabled by its use of the H-1B visa... — read more 

Here's an scheme to detox Amazon: 1) Eject Andy and his entire S-team. 2) Close 80% of offices. Go remote first (i.e. remote like the Cloud). 3) Remove 70% of managers, keep the top 30% based on team feedback/metrics. 4) Get rid of LPs. Stop saying... — read more 

A 15-hour (!) outage wiping out $1.1B, because spreadsheet pushers and senior management became dominated by folks that knew almost nothing about how AWS worked. Classy! Keep those layoffs coming!

I started an AWS loop interview on the morning when 14,000 Amazon employees were laid off. My first question to the hiring manager was " How is your day going?" and the response was this is a terrible day to interview, you will need to reschedule... — read more 

Great timing for the HOLIDAYS!

The layoffs, which were first reported by Crain’s New York, were disclosed in a filing with the New York State Department of Labor. In total, 660 employees are being laid off by Amazon across nine offices in New York... — read more 

C suites across the globe have shown their ignorance and that they are simply easily led automatons, just a bunch of flashy salesmans cucks more than anything. Visier's previous report, Embracing the AI-Driven Workforce, focused more on the human... — read more 

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Agentic AI has a 98-99.5% failure rate. But business leaders are still pretending (lying) AI is taking peoples jobs. https://arxiv.org/html/2510.26787v1 The best-performing current AI agents achieve an automation rate of 2.5%, failing to complete... — read more 

Jassy tried RTO as incentive to leave. Employees were adamant they'd leave in droves. Those who said they'd leave didn't follow through and betrayed everyone else. There was no meaningful uptick in attrition after RTO. What other options does Jassy... — read more 

If you thought that minor stock price bump was big....