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‘New engineering team in India…’: Former Amazon employee shares screenshot with allegation after layoff

Nicholas Lee Plumb, a Texas Republican candidate, who announced that he was affected by the latest layoff of Amazon, shared an internal message claiming that it was sent to him by a former colleague, where a discussion about a new engineering team in India was going on. “We are also forming a new engineering team […]

‘I saw this coming’: Texas Republican candidate says he got fired from Amazon; ‘It was not AI’

Nicholas Lee, a military veteran who is running for Congress from Texas’s 2nd Congressional District, said he got laid off by Amazon in its latest tranche of layoff announced Wednesday. Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, Beth Galetti, confirmed the layoff in a blog post. “As I shared in October, we’ve been […]

As Amazon layoffs loom; calendar invite worries employees as it has subject line that says …

As Amazon prepares for another round of corporate layoffs, employees were rattled on January 27, after receiving a calendar invite titled, ‘Send Project Dawn email’. The invitation sent by the company is linked to an internal invitation which is aimed at improving efficiency. As reported by Business Insider, the email was sent by an assistant […]

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy breaks silence on 14,000 job cuts, says …

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says that the company’s latest round of layoffs that impacted barely 14,000 people is not because of money or AI. Instead, the real reason behind Amazon job cuts is the culture, Jassy said. “The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially driven, and it’s not even […]

Why TCS, Amazon and others are thinning the middle layer? Red flags for managers to watch out for

Picture this: On a Tuesday morning in Bengaluru, a programme manager opens a routine email and realises it is anything but: her team doubles overnight, weekly updates are auto-generated, and a colleague in a similar role has been moved to a “bench” with two weeks to find a new project. Versions of this scene are […]