[amzn-336495]

That is how it works at all. The company took in $107,000,000,000 dollars in 2015 but were just forced to layoff off engineers. Right, no despotic dictatorship banana republic stuff going on there.

[TheDong]

It didn't "layoff off [sic]" engineers; they quit.

It could be argued with that much revenue they could afford a better work environment for their employees, but it's not as bad as you make it out to be.

[amzn-336495]

Did you read the article at all? "Amazon laid off "dozens of engineers" in its Lab126 hardware unit"

[bunnymancer]

It's okay to just say Billion instead of trying to enhance the statement.

Also that's revenue and not income, which was $596 million. Quite a difference.

[amzn-336495]

They took tens of millions of dollars of revenue and built some huge balls in downtown Seattle, so I don't think they were hurting for money.