https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/amazon-layoffs.html
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19k to be culled. Notifications will be tomorrow but you will have 60 days in-lieu of WARN to look for another gig internally. If no luck after that, hand-in your badge, sign the package and you're out da door.
for those who think it can't happen at Cisco be sure to tune into the earnings call today
Amazon almost doubled their workforce from 2019 to 2021. This is not surprising.
"I got pinged daily by Amazon recruiters"
Are you sure it wasn't AWS? Not quite the same structure.
Amazon is a terrible place to work. So is Cisco, but Amazon is worse. Ok, Amazon is better for the resume and pays much better but it's a sweatshop.
in perspective, there are 1.5 million amazon employees
Not warehouse but 10k corporate and tech roles.
Over the last year, I got pinged daily by Amazon recruiters. Now mass layoff. Hmmm.
Chuck is the only CEO not laying off staff in these days :D
This is the Cisco board you ta-d
warehouse worker bees. normal.