Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according to LinkedIn posts

Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by malfist on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:04AM (#33624213)

If at the end of the 60 days, you get a lump sump payment of 4-20 weeks of base pay, no sign on bonus or RSUs included.

Amazon famously caps base pay, so most people, even super senior people will not be making more than 160k/yr unless they were hired in the last year.

If you find employment externally during those 60 days, all payments stop and you get nothing more from amazon.

To get the 7 months of pay you'll have had to be at amazon 10+ years. That's like 3 people. Turnover for all roles is >100%, tech is something like 50+%

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by mothsonasloth on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:19AM (#33624475)

Couldn't you, y'know just get a new job offer and not tell them about it until your 60 days have elapsed?

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by mywittyname on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:43AM (#33624966)

There are reporting agencies that can be used to determine who employs a person. That's not including some other shady shit I wouldn't put past the company getting up to (i.e., bribing recruiting firms to tattle on former employees). Plus, I bet there's clawback provision if you don't tell them and they find out about it.

But yeah, I'd take that gamble and just keep a low profile online. Or one could slow walk the hiring process: land a job then push your start date back out 61-x days.

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by josefresco on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:56AM (#33626350)

Similarly could you tell your new employer "Hey don't officially hire me for another 3 more weeks - I'll still work for you now but Amazon will pay my salary - deal?"

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by cmeacham98 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @04:08PM (#33630624)

I'm not sure why anyone would play this weird game of defrauding Amazon and working for a company for free when they could instead just do: "Hey I need some time, can my start date be X days from now", where X will probably be 30 or so days (given it takes time to apply to new jobs, go through the various stages of interview, etc).

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by dymk on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:16AM (#33624411)

Amazon doubled their base cap last year, so is this still true?

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by malfist on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:00AM (#33625291)

That's why I had a disclaimer about being hired this year.

If you weren't hired this year your base is likely still around the 160k

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by makoz on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:09AM (#33625460)

Data point of one and all that, but I got a decent bump in base and have been with the company for more than a few years. I assume that's true for almost everyone else based off the Blind posts.

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