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

Tech layoffs: Amazon Web Services (AWS) division gave hundreds of employees the pink slip from its cloud unit earlier this week. The major wave of job cuts comes just weeks after CEO Andy Jassy stated that AI will likely reduce the need for certain roles across Amazon. Analyst Amanda Goodall, who uses the handle “@thejobchick” on X(formerly Twitter) predicted that further job cuts are expected towards the end of this year.

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.

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs while sitting on $100 billion in cash.

Is this the new playbook for the AI era that companies are implementing to survive and/or thrive.

Or maybe it's just a way for them to make their balance sheets look pretty for the investors with all the money they've dumped into AI.

Amazon's CEO explained it clearly: "When you add a lot of people, you end up with middle managers who want to put their fingerprint on everything.

Full post:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stepania_amazon-just-announced-14000-layoffs-while-activity-7308144807313371137-YZMl

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.

Just got a call from a coworker this AM and he got the email that he was let go. I had been hearing they were doing this now with remote employees..and he IS remote. If you’re not tied to an office they’re cutting ties had been a rumor for a few weeks and it’s proving to be true. Has anyone else heard similar with their team? Sucks.

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.

Rumor of heavy layoffs at Amazon, with 10% of total US headcount and 25% of L7s (principal-level devs). Other major companies have similar rumors of *deep* cuts.. all followed by significant investment in offshore offices.

Companies are doing to white collar jobs what they did to manufacturing back in the 60's-90's. Its honestly time for us to have a real look at killing this move overseas while most of us still have jobs.

Miserable existence