AWS severs connection with several hundred staff

Hundreds of Amazon Web Services employees are being shown the door this week - a move the American technology behemoth said is necessary as it, like many others, moves to streamline operations. AWS, the cloud computing arm of mega e-retailer Amazon, is making several hundred cuts in its sales, marketing, and global services …

[Michael Hoffmann]

Thinking of my own time in the hellhole and some of the kool-aid satiated cheerleaders I worked with, I wonder how many of those have received their layoff notices in the recent massacres. Thereby receiving a harsh lesson in corporate reality of late stage capitalism.

[CowHorseFrog]

I hope this means that those hardworking executives still get their millions in bonuses.

[Potemkine!]

Luxury yachts aren't going to pay by themselves you know... some have to make some efforts, and you know who will do them.

[Michael Wojcik]

Yes, they didn't make this decision lightly, you know. "It is with a heavy heart that, having reviewed what would be necessary to maximize my bonus, I have come to the conclusion that your careers don't matter."

[CowHorseFrog]

Love the corporate speak.

Most jobs are crap people only do them for the money and they go home and done care.

Please stop the corporate bullshit speak, using words like career, and "corporate" family, "corporate" culture etc.

[Dan 55]

Probably the best thing to happen to them

Amazon noted for being a toxic hellhole and all that.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Probably the best thing to happen to them

Fully agreed but there are some decent people who slip through their are-you-evil-enough filter who will be negatively affected due to the difficult job market currently, even if they're better off in the long run. And in the extremely long run they're hopefully now no longer going to hell so there's that benefit too.

[Bebu]

Physical stores...

I was think spinning disks, SANs ....

A bit of a clutcheless crunch of a paradigm shift when the article wrote of shopping carts/trollies (50/50 in AU.)

Those cybertrollies, to one of my advanced years, are the ultimate nightmarish extension of the tracking that loyalty cards enabled. Alexa probably checks you bring your purchases home with you. :)

[ImpureScience]

I cannot tell you how many times i have thanked myself for not becoming involved with tech giants - after 10 years or rather benevolent corporate work I switched to medical/scientific work at universities and med schools and have rarely if ever (OK, one layoff in the meltdown of 2008 when it turned out that the genius head of finances had invested heavily with Bernie Madoff) had to deal with anything like this.

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a friend that works at AWS. When he got hired, he offered to help me to get in the door there. I told him that I had zero interest in working in Big-Tech. He had this attitude of "but look how much money I make here, you will never make that where you are...". About six months later he called me to ask if I know of any openings elsewhere.

[CapeCarl]

Inversely proportional...

My IT career lasted from 1978 until 2021...Coding in assembler to managing 5K Linux servers...Company headcount of 2 (I was THE employee) to ~100K (General Electric, pre .com era).

...And my enjoyment of said employment was generally inversely proportional to the head count.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Inversely proportional...

Whilst happiness has been broadly inversely proportionate to headcount for my career too, there's nothing worse than being in a big organisation that is losing people.

Also, having lost all my colleagues and being the only full time employee left in a tiny company isn't great either.

[RLWatkins]

Whoever said megacompanies drive "job creation" got it backwards.

They've expanded to their natural limits, they're selling into saturated markets. The only way they can "grow", i.e. increase profits, is to employ *fewer* people. Are people catching on?