‘Entire team laid off’: Internet shares stories as Amazon cuts 14,000 jobs amid AI push

When Divya Porwal’s friend landed in Bengaluru after the Diwali break, the first thing he saw wasn’t a festive greeting — it was an email from Amazon informing him he had been laid off.

“He boarded his flight back to Bengaluru after Diwali break, excited to be back,” Porwal wrote on X. “As soon as he landed, he turned on his phone — there it was. A layoff mail from Amazon.”