On Tuesday, Amazon began what is expected to be the largest round of corporate layoffs in its history, according to current employees who have been affected. The company aims to lay off about 10,000 employees in its retail, devices and HR divisions. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-started-laying-off-workers-tuesday-mass-layoff-2022-11
ITS history
“In its history” . “Its”
Wow geniuses working at Twitter
Fake news. Amazon PIPs more than 10k 🐒 every year.
I've never seen an undeserved pip. I've definitely seen an undeserved focus, and that does have a significant negative impact on one's career, but I've never seen an IC get fired who wasn't a technical liability. The difference here is people are losing their jobs because their org isn't profitable. That's new for Amazon, a company that supposedly touts itself on "long-term value" and is willing to "accept that we may be misunderstood for long periods of time".
Exactly, amazon leadership principles are just a set of rules to benefit the org and the org only. I once worked with them and all these people there worked like machines and leadership principles were the set of rules upon which these machines were working.
Are SWEs impacted?
Yes
Can someone please write here the script of the article?
Paywall
When amazon recruiters stopped sending emails, we know something is going to happen.
Workers targeted for layoffs received cryptic invitations to "mandatory" Tuesday meetings with teammates, leaders and human resources personnel, according to one such invitation seen by Insider. During the meeting, employees were informed that they would have 60 days to find a new job internally. If they did not find a new job after that time, they can take severance. It was not immediately clear how much severance Amazon is offering.
Can you please share org/team? Are they really getting rid of entire teams/projects? That’s how it sounds…
Kind of weasely cop out way to make layoffs so the news cant really call it what it is a layoff and spread the news impact over 2 months so people forget
This sucks. 60 days to find a new job internally and then severance is the best possible outcome, though. Start leetcoding, start interviewing externally, start interviewing internally, and you have close to 6 months of pay until you *need* a new role.
That’s nice
60 days of notice is pretty standard.
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