Amazon engineering role layoff affecting a long-tenured engineer
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What we know
Location: Arlington, Virginia.
Department affected: engineering.
Based on news reporting.
Summary
An Amazon software engineer, Jack Nguyen, was laid off in January after more than seven years at the company across two stints. The article recounts his experience: he was surprised but not entirely, given Amazon's prior large layoffs in 2023; some teams they worked with were affected while his team initially was not. After being laid off he began searching for new work about a week later and described navigating the job market post-layoff. The piece focuses on his personal account rather than providing company-wide figures or additional details about broader Amazon workforce reductions.
LayoffTalk has tracked 102 layoff events at Amazon.com, Inc. since January 2023, including 18,317 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 68 additional events known from news reporting.
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