Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts after accidental email(bbc.co.uk)
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Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts after accidental email
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2ywzxlxnlo
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The cuts in this round appear to be widespread. One of my good friends is an AWS account manager for a large account and she was impacted this morning.
> avoid "novel" projects to avoid getting laid off
Everything is novel in big tech. Just like once kindle, one click checkout, even Amazon itself was.
Everything is novel in big tech. Just like once kindle, one click checkout, even Amazon itself was.
These layoffs don't seem to be driven by "productivity" gains of AI (yet), more so shifting out of failed business experiments. I wonder if this will act as a signaling mechanism for employees to avoid "novel" projects to avoid getting laid off or being associated with a whole division getting shutdown.