I have an offer to start in April. I pushed my original start date back from earlier this year to avoid being caught up in layoffs and to decrease the probability of my offer being rescinded during my notice period. Now that Amazon did their big layoff, are they safe to join? Ads org specifically
Depends how ads do in Q1
I know some ads leaders who got demoted at amazon.
When you say demoted what do you mean? To what role?
They were a principal and got pushed down. Don’t wanna be specific about ad product it would be easy to figure out
Run
What level are you coming in as?
Non new grad SDE1
Big step up in TC coming from C1?
Ads org is growing. Might be opening up reqs to hire people who were let go.
No where is absolutely safe but people are joining each week still. You’ll probably be okay
The fact that they’re still taking people and it’s generating a lot of profit is a good sign in my mind, thanks
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Ads is a profit making org and didn't have any plans to layoff previously. I don't think they will start layoff anytime soon
Yeah since Ads and AWS are profit makers I would hope they’d be safer than the rest at least, thanks!
To be honest it depends on which team you are in these orgs. Part of Physical Stores under AWS was part of layoffs this time