Yes confirmed from a friend, quite a few orgs involved. Lot of higher ups
Higher ups is good news. At least they’re clearing some rot
I wish. Unfortunately, the rot has learned how to throw the good ones under the bus to perpetuate its mire
Is this net new from the broader communication Amazon made earlier??
Thanks. I see it now https://www.geekwire.com/2024/amazon-web-services-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-in-sales-training-and-physical-stores-technology/
Hundreds. Hundreds I say!!
How to differentiate between layoffs and pip
Layoffs are usually announced and on a larger scale. Some folks already on focus could also be part of a layoff.
You can also get unemployment if you are laid off not when you are on pip and got fired. Most of the time you will be paid severance as well when you are laid off
They're indiscriminately whacking people at all levels
Yes 5% from each team is confirmed in IDC
You mean every team in India or some team of some org in India..Ignore me if IDC doesn't mean India development center
This is disappointing… not just for Amazon but for the entire industry. The scars which these layoffs leave on people take a lot of time to heal. And even when the laid off employees get re-employed elsewhere, the sense of mistrust and self preservation at the cost of everything else still prevails… wish as a workforce if we could boycott such companies or leaders
Laying people off a few at a time is actually typical of a company like Amazon. It definitely scars the ones laid off, but also scares the ones who remain.
Well-said. And the cost is actually much more significant than these execs think; it means tech employees have learned that they are expendable. When you believe you’re expendable, then you drop any lines of loyalty towards a company or organization. You stop drinking the koolaid. You stop participating in cultural connections within the organization. And you learn not to do the same at other companies moving forward. The damage is huge; it means corporations will struggle retaining talent longer-term, losing key industry experience to the next highest-bidder. It means 1-2 year company tenures. It means months lost on retraining, onboarding, integration. It means as a corporation, you have signaled that you do not value employees as people and intellectual generators of ideas, but purely as output-monkeys. These layoffs will have a huge impact on these companies long-term, all for short-term gains that an exec can point to on the next earnings call to save their own asses. Mark my words; the future of tech employees will consist of a mix of contract and remote workers, all selling their hours to the highest bidders. It will become commonplace for people to hold 2-3 contracts/roles, and a rarity for someone to be completely beholden to 1 company and its whims. An employee putting all his/her eggs into one basket of a corporation doesn’t make financial sense anymore when we can be discarded at-will, for no reason. Diversification of risk will happen as we will want to have a semblance of security for our incomes and families. Let’s not even go into the lack of salary increases and promos as inflation eats away at our standards of living. We’re human beings. We have priorities in life. We deserve a safe path to providing for our loved ones, and a solid path to growing old in retirement. When corporations stop providing that, all bets are off. We become mercenaries for hire; nothing more, nothing less. We’re entering a lose-lose scenario as corporations lose important tenured industry talent to competitors, while employees will hoar themselves out to multiple contracts just to get by and diversify layoff risk. Tech companies did it to themselves; their greed and short-sightedness will cost them (and us).
All teams? Just aws or whole amazon? 5% they ask to leave every year anyway no? As URA. Is this ob top of that
That’s not layoff, that’s PIP, and its 6%
Stop saying "impacted". That's Meta management double speak (they started it AFAIK). Just tell the truth: "laid off". And there is no shame in this, who would have known that these highly profitable companies posting record profits would behave so callously towards the employees who created that value for them.
"Impacted" existed as a term long before Meta.
Source?
AWS SMGS had layoffs
Sorry to hear that. Makes this post from 2022 even more ironic https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/aws-sales-marketing-global-servicessmgs-security-team-mahima-wadhwa/
Sad to see the continued lay offs across AWS. It seems a never ending cycle.