Amazon axes 18,000 headcount, almost double the planned

Amazon is reportedly delaying the start date for an unknown number of college graduate hires, telling them in an email they wouldn't be able to start until well after their planned May 2023 start dates.

Blaming the "macroeconomic environment," Amazon told the hirees they would now start in December of next year. As recompense each was offered a $13,000 (£10,484) one-time payment which would be available regardless of whether they chose to walk away from Amazon's job offer.

One of the affected hires forwarded their email to the Financial Times, which the publication said indicated the sender wasn't the only one affected, and that Amazon was making the changes "as a part of our annual operating planning review."

The individual who reached out to the paper alleges they were set to start work at the Amazon facility where Alexa is developed, making their hire delay unsurprising given the reported $3 billion losses coming out of that division and associated mass layoffs at Amazon that kicked off last month.
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https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/14/amazon_graduate_hires_delay/

Goes to show how fast things have changed as Amazon reads the economic data. Almost everyones projections for how bad things will get are getting worse.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/04/ama...r-18000-jobs-more-than-initially-planned.html

I expect this to hit the failing city Seattle hard.
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Too late. Already hit hard. These employees weren't working in Seattle. They were 'working' from home. Seattle has become too dangerous to go in to, especially at night.
Amazon, like other high tech companies, have found they don't need such deadwood. A lot of these twits couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.

The bulk of AWS, the best cloud services around, was written by very few people. It is they who are the competent programmers, and they are not getting laid off. A lot of them work from home too, but they actually do work.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
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This is outdated. Seattle is effectively dead. What was once the site of the World's Fair, and businesses everywhere envisioning and building the future...has become boarded up stores on every street and rampant crime and homeless everywhere. It is no longer safe to travel into Seattle day or night, especially at night.
 
Into the Night said:
This is outdated. Seattle is effectively dead. What was once the site of the World's Fair, and businesses everywhere envisioning and building the future...has become boarded up stores on every street and rampant crime and homeless everywhere. It is no longer safe to travel into Seattle day or night, especially at night.
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Okay, Democrats created another Detroit. What's new about that? When you let the Left run things, they fuck everything up.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Okay, Democrats created another Detroit. What's new about that? When you let the Left run things, they fuck everything up.
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Not quite as bad as Detroit yet, but it's certainly heading that direction. Yes. The Left fuck everything up.
Yes, despite the devastation that's happened to Seattle, Portland, OR has suffered even worse.
 
Into the Night said:
Too late. Already hit hard. These employees weren't working in Seattle. They were 'working' from home. Seattle has become too dangerous to go in to, especially at night.
Amazon, like other high tech companies, have found they don't need such deadwood. A lot of these twits couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.

The bulk of AWS, the best cloud services around, was written by very few people. It is they who are the competent programmers, and they are not getting laid off. A lot of them work from home too, but they actually do work.
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A lot of people in the Seattle area will be out of a job soon....and the days that there were plenty of jobs or that it made sense to live anywhere near Seattle are long gone.
 
Into the Night said:
Not really. It just time to get rid of the deadwood at Amazon. There's a lot of it that's accumulated.
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Retail (well online retail) has been strong for 24 months but is falling off dramatically now and moreso to come.

A WHOLE lot of companies are seeing this. Check out the planned layoffs being reported. More will be rolling out soon.
 
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