There is a discussion about Amazon doing its biggest layoff ever across every division.
Many US product teams are also being transferred to Canada
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Update 11/12: AWS ASP (20% cut):
https://www.teamblind.com/us/s/c1px4yvs
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Did you see this from u/QuickSuite? "I'm back with another credible layoff update (Amazon)" https://www.teamblind.com/us/s/v1fw07uz
Following their lead. I’m in PXT, close enough to AWS Specialist and Partners (ASP) to see what’s coming down the pipe. Here’s what I know.
ASP had a RIF in July, but the planning for the Jan RIF started right after.
What’s confirmed:
Date: January 27, 2026 Size: 20-25% of the org Process: PXT provides the data, but L8s make the cuts Impacted roles: All — PDM, PSM, PSA are showing up Reorg: At least one large group (200+) is getting broken up and redistributed. Not specifying which. Timeline: Lists are being built now through mid January.
If you’ve got info to share or questions, DM.
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Courtesy Blind (pasted the content as is): https://www.teamblind.com/us/s/v1fw07uz
I made my last post here out of frustration, but it ended up gaining a lot of attention and a lot of people reached out in DMs to thank me and to discuss additional stuff. While I'm in PXT, my role doesn't have direct visibility into the targets and layoffs, but my teammates and stakeholders that I support do. So, my investigative mode went overdrive last few days and here's all the 100 percent verified information I know.
Layoff date: 27th Jan. Confirmed.
Targets: anywhere between 4 to 20 percent depending on orgs. Even impacted orgs will have updated targets. These targets are Opex and not headcount, so if you have a higher salary, you have a higher chance of getting impacted.
Criteria: Directors can get very creative. While initial list can come from PXT, directors seem to have full control. They cannot target anyone willy nilly, but can go specific terms of saying, 'this service will be deprecated and there are 2 SDEs working on this who we can lay off.'
Program Manager, SDE, BIE will be the primarily impacted roles. (note, this information is very much specific to one org as the people that support other orgs did not disclose type of roles impacted).
Overall org level consolidations will happen. Guaranteed example : one entire org of 150 plus people is going to be split and reorged under multiple other orgs. I cannot provide details of which org here as I'll doxx myself and my teammate, but you can DM me with your org and I'll say yes/no. I cannot go more specific than that. But what I was told was that multiple of these instances are occuring..
The lists have to finalized by Nov17 for most orgs. For others Nov 20 is the deadline. Post Oct 28, if you see all L8s in your org gathering for a meeting or an offsite that includes an HRBP session, then that's where the list will be decided. So check the calendars for Oct 28 to Nov 20.
There is nothing anyone can do to get in or out of the list, but those in WA can apply for FMLA now to be excluded.
That's all for now. I'll update this post with any additional details I can gather.
Also, please don't DM about AWS orgs as my knowledge is limited to stores. But I definitely think that AWS would have much higher targets overall