Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees. This would represent the largest job cut at Amazon since around 27,000 jobs were eliminated starting in late 2022.

Managers of impacted teams were asked to undergo training on Monday for how to communicate with staff following notifications that will start going out via email tomorrow morning

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/

What are your thoughts on this?

Saw a LinkedIn post just now from a dude from books org at Amazon. Few others posted about their layoff too. Any Amazon guy here give me some clarity on what's happening? It would be great to know what the scene is and how many got impacted.

My friend from Amazon told me how she saw an entire team, including their manager, get laid off right in front of her eyes — all within seconds. The way they had to leave the office was honestly heartbreaking.

These layoffs are massive; entire orgs are being wiped out. The testing teams in Q3 and Q4 were the first to go. They collected company laptops on the spot, and that was it.

It’s rough out there right now.

I was laid off yesterday.

My leader said: “This has nothing to do with your performance. This decision was not made lightly.”

Yet its so hard to think it’s not based on my performance. They kept people who had less tenure and experience than me (but paid the same)

I asked 100x over my course of tenure there to give me more exposure, to include me in more meetings, to give me more context. From the start, I felt left out. I was set up to fail and not given the opportunity to grow. They often took credit for the things that I BUILT.

Live and learn I guess.

So far I've heard about 1200 in Spain and +1,000 in the Netherlands

This directive goes beyond simple logistics to represent Amazon's overarching strategic goal of preserving its competitive advantage in a market that is extremely dynamic. Being physically close encourages impromptu conversations, speedier decision-making, and a greater sense of purpose, elements that are challenging to replicate virtually. With decades of operational experience, Amazon's leadership understands that real-time idea collisions foster innovation.

Buddy of mine works at Twitch and is in a pretty senior, non engineering role. I was surprised to see it hit there. Would have thought it would be leaned heavily towards engineering types but after telling him for at least 2 years that he should be looking into other roles it finally hit him. Remote Worker, he worked in a financial role.

Starting to hear the rumblings.

Today, Amazon announced 30k layoffs, most posts on LinkedIn I’ve seen were from HR/Recruiting. Curious to know if they laid off any DevOps/SRE as that would imply a lot of Amazon engineers would be coming into the market. Anyone hear anything?

Apparently its as many as 30k jobs, yet Amzn netted over $15 billion last quarter. So amazon shuts down thousands of small businesses, creates a monopoly, hordes billions, its not enough so slim down the workforce…

updated 10/28- 14,000 employees laid off.

Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees. This would represent the largest job cut at Amazon since around 27,000 jobs were eliminated starting in late 2022.

Amazon AWS layoffs 2025: Amazon has laid off several hundred employees from its AWS cloud division, according to Reuters. The exact number remains unclear. The cuts are part of a wider restructuring effort at the company, which comes just over a month after previous job reductions in other parts of the business.

Miserable existence

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/amazon-exec-explains-layoff-california-21129467.php

In California, Amazon filed WARNs, which are generally required in the event of mass job cuts, for seven cities: Sunnyvale (391 layoffs), Irvine (333), Palo Alto (176), Culver City (152), San Diego (145), Santa Monica (130) and Santa Clara (76). It adds up to 1,403 cuts statewide — it’s unclear how the overall cuts might be affecting subsidiaries. (Amazon also owns Audible, Twitch, Goodreads, Whole Foods, Zoox and Ring.)

Who are these laid-off workers? Software development engineers make up the largest category, with hundreds of cuts listed across the documents. Amazon is also shedding recruiters, business analysts, marketers and managers. The layoffs in Irvine and San Diego, where Amazon has video game studios, include dozens of game designers and game artists.

This sheds some light on how affected SWEs were by this layoff in California at least. Not sure about other locations. The total layoff number is 14000