Amazon layoffs: Engineers worst hit despite push for ‘faster innovation’; more than 1800 lose jobs

Amazon had announced plans to lay off 14,000 employees in October — outlining plans to invest in its “biggest bets” and hailing the transformative powers of artificial intelligence. New data indicates that engineers bore the brunt of these cost-cutting measures with more than 1,800 losing their jobs over the past few weeks. The development came in spite of official assertions that Amazon needed to ‘innovate faster’.