Amazon Cut Thousands of Engineers in Its Record Layoffs, Despite Saying It Needs To Innovate Faster (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/21/1626239/amazon-cut-thousands-of-engineers-in-its-record-layoffs-despite-saying-it-needs-to-innovate-faster
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/amazon-cut-thousands-of-engineers-in-its-record-layoffs-filings-show.html
> Documents filed in New York, California, New Jersey and Amazon's home state of Washington showed that nearly 40% of the more than 4,700 job cuts in those states [2]were engineering roles . The data was reported by Amazon in Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, filings to state agencies. The figures represent a segment of the total layoffs announced in October. Not all data was immediately available because of differences in state WARN reporting requirements.
[1] https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/28/0932258/amazon-says-it-will-cut-14000-corporate-roles-to-remove-layers
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/amazon-cut-thousands-of-engineers-in-its-record-layoffs-filings-show.html
Believe (Score:3)
Does it really matter what they say the goals are? We all know what the goal is, no matter what they say.
Innovation has nothing to do with it (Score:4, Insightful)
Most employees at big companies, including tech companies, don't innovate. They're not allowed to innovate, and if they try to do so they're told to keep working on their TPS reports or Jira tickets. Laying off such engineers won't reduce innovation at a big company.
The people big companies allow to innovate are either product/marketing types, or in tech companies people with titles like "principal" and "distinguished". Most of these people don't actually innovate either (and the innovation coming from the product/marketing types is usually bad), but occasionally you get people who can, and that's where all the innovation from big companies is.
If you want to innovate, become a founder. If you're at a big tech company, you can probably ask management and they'll tell you the same thing.
More H1B please (Score:3)
1) Fire those slackers. 2) "No talent available" need H1B visas. 3) Pay 30 cents on the dollar. 4) Profit Seems equitable..
Wanna stop layoffs? (Score:3, Interesting)
enforce anti-trust law.
And that means you vote for politicians who'll do it. If you're American that means a Democrat.
Companies would normally be terrified to fire this many engineers because they'd be snapped up by competitors.
Only there aren't any, because we keep voting for people that won't enforce anti-trust law.
Elections have consequences, and your job is one of them.
The job market sucks at 50. And the people you keep voting for, what ever your reasons are, are planning to raise retirement age to 70.