[UncleOxidant]

I was talking to a neighbor who works at AWS. Asked how it was going and he said so far so good "I've survived 3 layoffs so far". And I was like, "3 layoffs? I thought there was only one so far?" and he replied that there have been a couple others that weren't publicized so much.

[roym6]

Theres been 3 layoffs at Amazon so far, but not all three have been focused on AWS. The first targeted HR/recruiting, the second physical stores and .com, and this current third one is hitting AWS and ads.

[trashface]

I heard a similar story from someone I know at AWS.

[LegitShady]

I have a hard time believing it - the journos are interested in the kind of muck and if there have been additional 2 rounds of layoffs how did they keep it quiet?

[PragmaticPulp]

Layoffs happen at different scales within a company. Individual departments can have layoffs that aren't newsworthy. If someone's budget gets cut, they might have to layoff a number of people.

The reason the big layoffs are newsworthy is that they impact most or all of the company at once. The big layoffs are usually associated with company-wide hiring slowdowns. The individual org/department layoffs are often not really noteworthy in the context of the entire company.

[LegitShady]

I feel like I'd have read about it on twitter or mastodon or whatever else people are using these days.

[haliskerbas]

Might be the difference between a legally disclosed layoff and “my whole org was gutted by our director” but not big enough to require a legal disclosure.

[vdnkh]

Seriously? Just google it, there's plenty of articles. And unless the OP is lying (they're not), they're literally providing you with info from a firsthand source.

Whats with HN and sealioning in every freaking comment lately?

[LegitShady]

thats not what a firsthand source is - I would have to trust that two anonymous people were telling the truth.

Also, not trusting everything you're told without evidence of some kind isn't sealioning, and nobody is required to trust randoms when they make sourceless claims.

Maybe keep your outrage to yourself because you becoming toxic when people don't accept sourceless claims doesn't do anything but show the world you're having trouble being civil in response to...a request for some kind of evidence of a claim by anonymous people. Just relax and move on instead of being outraged.