Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history - 30,000 staffers across its corporate workforce.

[archie7]

this is quite sudden

 

[Mechafanboy]

Amazon is actively hiring in India despite the ongoing global corporate layoffs announced on October 27, 2025, which target up to 30,000 corporate roles primarily in the US and other high-cost regions. This pattern aligns with broader industry trends where US tech firms cut domestic jobs while expanding in cost-effective markets like India, effectively offshoring roles to maintain efficiency and reduce expenses. Below, I'll break it down based on recent reports and data.

Current Hiring in India​

Amazon continues to post and fill job openings across India, focusing on tech, operations, and customer service roles. Key highlights as of late October 2025:

• Volume of Openings: Over 1,500 active job listings on platforms like Naukri.com and AmbitionBox, with Amazon's official careers site (amazon.jobs) showing hundreds more searchable by location (e.g., Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Gurgaon). Unstop reports 1,500+ roles in domains like software engineering, data science, HR, marketing, sales, and legal.
• Types of Roles:
  • Tech-heavy: Software Development Engineer (SDE-I) for 2025 grads, program management, distributed systems.
  • Operations: RME Manager (Gurgaon), WHS Manager (Maharashtra), Transportation Specialist (Hyderabad).
  • Entry-Level/Remote: Customer Support Associates (work-from-home in Telangana), MyHR Support Advisors (PAN India, freshers eligible, ~₹4.5 LPA).
• Recent Announcements:
  • Off-campus drives for 2024-2026 freshers in engineering and operations (e.g., October 16, 2025, via FreshersNow).
  • TechGig highlighted SDE and program manager openings for innovative projects as of October 2025.
  • Reddit discussions (r/leetcode) confirm Amazon is interviewing and offering SDE-I roles to 2025 Indian grads, though some note delays for certain batches.
• Historical Context with Updates: Amazon's 2021 pledge to create 1 million direct/indirect jobs in India by 2025 is on track, with over 1.3 million created so far (per smbhav.amazon.in). This includes expansions in e-commerce, AWS, and logistics, unaffected by the current US-focused cuts.

These opportunities are open to freshers (B.Tech, Diploma, Graduates) and experienced hires, with a mix of on-site (e.g., 35 cities like Bengaluru, Chennai) and remote options.

Connection to Layoffs: Evidence of Offshoring​

The layoffs—Amazon's largest corporate cuts ever, spanning finance, ops, engineering, and business services (L5-L8 levels)—are driven by CEO Andy Jassy's cost-reduction push, including AI integration and flatter hierarchies. While global (impacting ~10% of corporate staff), they disproportionately hit US/white-collar roles, with ripple effects in India (e.g., past cuts of hundreds in engineering/shared services).

However, this coincides with aggressive India expansion:

• Direct Offshoring Signals:
  • X (Twitter) chatter post-layoff announcement (October 27, 2025) explicitly calls out Amazon "hiring 20k extra H1Bs and opening an IT hub in India" or "skyrocket[ing] hiring in India" to offset US losses. Users report patterns of Indian hiring managers favoring compatriots, locking out US candidates.
  • Broader 2023-2025 Trend: Up to 40% of global tech layoffs (300,000+ jobs) have shifted to outsourcing hubs like India, per Economic Times. Amazon's India headcount grew 35% in the last year vs. 12% globally, per Xpheno data.
• AI and Cost Factors: Jassy's June 2025 memo noted AI would shrink some roles but create others—often in lower-cost regions like India for support/tech ops. This mirrors 2025 tech layoffs (91,000+ jobs cut industry-wide, per India Today), where firms like Meta and TCS automate US jobs while hiring abroad.
• India-Specific Layoff Impact: Minimal so far; older reports (e.g., 2022 Economic Times) noted small cuts (~hundreds), but 2025 hiring outpaces this. Amazon's PXT (HR) team, hit hardest globally, still recruits in India for related roles.

Aspect	US/Global Layoffs	India Hiring/Expansion
Scale	Up to 30,000 corporate jobs (Oct 2025 announcement); 27,000+ cut since 2022.	1,500+ active openings; 1.3M+ jobs created toward 2025 goal.
Focus Areas	Finance, ops, engineering managers (L5-L8); AI-driven reductions.	SDE, operations, customer support; freshers/remote emphasis.
Rationale	Cost-cutting, bureaucracy reduction, AI efficiencies.	Market growth, logistics/tech hubs; lower labor costs (~30-50% less than US).
Timeline	Notifications start Oct 28, 2025; ongoing through 2025.	Drives ongoing (e.g., Oct 16 off-campus); 2025 grad hires active.
Net Effect	Workforce shrinkage in high-cost areas.	Headcount growth; absorbing ~30-40% of offshored roles per industry trends.

In summary, Amazon's strategy isn't pure "offshoring" in the classic sense (e.g., no confirmed 1:1 job transfers), but the timing and scale suggest a deliberate shift: trimming expensive US corporate layers while scaling affordable India operations for similar functions.

AI = Actually Indians.

Artificial intelligence/LLM is absolute shiat at running operations. So the only plausible explanation for the layoffs, is offshoring...

Yet so many peepur, including many EDWMers believe LLM is driving the layoff trend. No, LLM is just a convenient excuse / scapegoat. It's easier for the public to buy that explanation.

 

[stanlawj]

AI = Actually Indians.

Artificial intelligence/LLM is absolute shiat at running operations. So the only plausible explanation for the layoffs, is offshoring...

Yet so many peepur, including many EDWMers believe LLM is driving the layoff trend. No, LLM is just a convenient excuse / scapegoat. It's easier for the public to buy that explanation.

Yup, AI/cost-cutting, all just a smokescreen for offshoring jobs to cheaper locations.

 

[leonaheidern]

Amazon is actively hiring in India despite the ongoing global corporate layoffs announced on October 27, 2025, which target up to 30,000 corporate roles primarily in the US and other high-cost regions. This pattern aligns with broader industry trends where US tech firms cut domestic jobs while expanding in cost-effective markets like India, effectively offshoring roles to maintain efficiency and reduce expenses. Below, I'll break it down based on recent reports and data.
Current Hiring in India
Amazon continues to post and fill job openings across India, focusing on tech, operations, and customer service roles. Key highlights as of late October 2025:
Volume of Openings
: Over 1,500 active job listings on platforms like Naukri.com and AmbitionBox, with Amazon's official careers site (amazon.jobs) showing hundreds more searchable by location (e.g., Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Gurgaon). Unstop reports 1,500+ roles in domains like software engineering, data science, HR, marketing, sales, and legal.
Types of Roles
:
Tech-heavy: Software Development Engineer (SDE-I) for 2025 grads, program management, distributed systems.
Operations: RME Manager (Gurgaon), WHS Manager (Maharashtra), Transportation Specialist (Hyderabad).
Entry-Level/Remote: Customer Support Associates (work-from-home in Telangana), MyHR Support Advisors (PAN India, freshers eligible, ~₹4.5 LPA).
Recent Announcements
:
Off-campus drives for 2024-2026 freshers in engineering and operations (e.g., October 16, 2025, via FreshersNow).
TechGig highlighted SDE and program manager openings for innovative projects as of October 2025.
Reddit discussions (r/leetcode) confirm Amazon is interviewing and offering SDE-I roles to 2025 Indian grads, though some note delays for certain batches.
Historical Context with Updates
: Amazon's 2021 pledge to create 1 million direct/indirect jobs in India by 2025 is on track, with over 1.3 million created so far (per smbhav.amazon.in). This includes expansions in e-commerce, AWS, and logistics, unaffected by the current US-focused cuts.
These opportunities are open to freshers (B.Tech, Diploma, Graduates) and experienced hires, with a mix of on-site (e.g., 35 cities like Bengaluru, Chennai) and remote options.
Connection to Layoffs: Evidence of Offshoring
The layoffs—Amazon's largest corporate cuts ever, spanning finance, ops, engineering, and business services (L5-L8 levels)—are driven by CEO Andy Jassy's cost-reduction push, including AI integration and flatter hierarchies. While global (impacting ~10% of corporate staff), they disproportionately hit US/white-collar roles, with ripple effects in India (e.g., past cuts of hundreds in engineering/shared services).
However, this coincides with aggressive India expansion:
Direct Offshoring Signals
:
X (Twitter) chatter post-layoff announcement (October 27, 2025) explicitly calls out Amazon "hiring 20k extra H1Bs and opening an IT hub in India" or "skyrocket[ing] hiring in India" to offset US losses. Users report patterns of Indian hiring managers favoring compatriots, locking out US candidates.
Broader 2023-2025 Trend: Up to 40% of global tech layoffs (300,000+ jobs) have shifted to outsourcing hubs like India, per Economic Times. Amazon's India headcount grew 35% in the last year vs. 12% globally, per Xpheno data.
AI and Cost Factors
: Jassy's June 2025 memo noted AI would shrink some roles but create others—often in lower-cost regions like India for support/tech ops. This mirrors 2025 tech layoffs (91,000+ jobs cut industry-wide, per India Today), where firms like Meta and TCS automate US jobs while hiring abroad.
India-Specific Layoff Impact
: Minimal so far; older reports (e.g., 2022 Economic Times) noted small cuts (~hundreds), but 2025 hiring outpaces this. Amazon's PXT (HR) team, hit hardest globally, still recruits in India for related roles.
Aspect
US/Global Layoffs
India Hiring/Expansion
In summary, Amazon's strategy isn't pure "offshoring" in the classic sense (e.g., no confirmed 1:1 job transfers), but the timing and scale suggest a deliberate shift: trimming expensive US corporate layers while scaling affordable India operations for similar functions.

there goes the customer service standards of Amazon. think i'll stick to Chinese e platforms for my online stuff now

the best customer service is not having to deal with customer service


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[Orionz]

Cut ah cut. Join trump cutting off woke dei

cut tech jods
add factory jods

 

[greenitude]

AI = Actually Indians.

Artificial intelligence/LLM is absolute shiat at running operations. So the only plausible explanation for the layoffs, is offshoring...

Yet so many peepur, including many EDWMers believe LLM is driving the layoff trend. No, LLM is just a convenient excuse / scapegoat. It's easier for the public to buy that explanation.

AI is far better at processing text and emails than coding, but people think AI can code well already instead of just spitting out refactored old examples from Stack Overflow.

Everyone thinks AI can do whatever the other guy does, not whatever they themselves are doing lol. Accountants say AI can't replace them, coders too, and now also corporate people say AI can't replace them.

All the subject matter experts in their own field say AI can't do it, but somehow they say everyone else can be replaced lol. Actually I think AI replaced the market for artists to make Ghibli portraits and the job of people to summarise text, both which contain tiny amounts of jobs la

 

[Visor9999]

Jeff Bezos getting richer? Why need to lay off

 

[Visor9999]

Amazon stock probably will perform amazing tomorrow. Usually goes up after firing a lot of people.

He have to work harder to catch up to Elon musk wealth

 

[Moowoow]

Good. Our public service probably have an equally large number that can be redundant by the technologies.

To the end !

Which agencies

 

[UptheToon]

Thank you AI.

 

[Notbbfa]

AI = Actually Indians.

Artificial intelligence/LLM is absolute shiat at running operations. So the only plausible explanation for the layoffs, is offshoring...

Yet so many peepur, including many EDWMers believe LLM is driving the layoff trend. No, LLM is just a convenient excuse / scapegoat. It's easier for the public to buy that explanation.

this is the reason for low birth rates
meanwhile offshoring countries very huat and giving birth to more and more
while they continue to reproduce, their offsprings are taking over your jobs!

 

[Lemonpeach]

Which agencies

Start with the most inefficient. Ask ourselves which department has been least responsive, suffers from breakdowns, poor customer service, treats visitors better than citizens, etc. Through polling, you can discover a few commonly mentioned ones.

 

[Orionz]

Start with the most inefficient. Ask ourselves which department has been least responsive, suffers from breakdowns, poor customer service, treats visitors better than citizens, etc. Through polling, you can discover a few commonly mentioned ones.

managers must cut ah cut
if not they will kenna cut themselves

 

[standarture]

funny how only tech always announce big big. other coys retrench every year without fail. before christmas, before CNY period.

 

[Lemonpeach]

managers must cut ah cut
if not they will kenna cut themselves

Also cut SPH Media.

Spent nearly 1 billion annually just to preserve a mouthpiece and official news agency is too exorbitant.

 

[mooseolly]

For context, amazon isn't just the store alone. It has a lot of things. Even it's own gaming divison with its own engine (lumberyard) which they eventually abandoned for another game engine.

They expanded too much too fast.

supplementary chart

 

[m0n0n0ke]

so sg kena or not??

 

[Lchlch]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/amazon-to-announce-sweeping-corporate-job-cuts-starting-tuesday.html

Key Points

• Amazon will begin a fresh round of job cuts beginning Tuesday, CNBC has learned.
• The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon’s corporate workforce in the company’s history, according to a person familiar with the matter.
• The company conducted rolling layoffs across the company since 2022, which has resulted in more than 27,000 employees being let go.

How about in spore?
How many will be retrenched?

 

[matrix05]

Amazon no need ppl. In their large warehouse, just 5 ppl control AI and robot. Profit kao kao, 24x7 working, ppl less less.

 

[mooseolly]

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