Synopsis Amazon announced job cuts of around 18,000 employees last month, and those who lost their jobs were from various divisions of the company, including AWS, healthcare, payments, real estate and delivery business, among others, the media reported. ETBrandEquity Representative image Amazon announced job cuts of around 18,000 employees last month, and those who lost their jobs were from various divisions of the company, including AWS, healthcare, payments, real estate and delivery business, among others, the media reported. Also read: Layoffs in 2023: list of companies that have announced job cuts amid economic downturn According to CNBC, an employee developed a spreadsheet after the layoff announcement, encouraging those affected to submit their information for recruiters' use. As per Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filings, at least 2,300 employees were laid off in Amazon's home state of Washington. Moreover, the filings show that over 500 took place in California, including engineering and recruiting divisions, while approximately 300 were in New York, said the report. Among grocery and physical stores, there were job cuts of people employed as program managers, store designers, supply chain managers and software engineers, also Amazon Go and Go Grocery cashier-less convenience stores and supermarkets were also hit with layoffs . Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories In Amazon Robotics, hardware development engineers, mechatronics engineers, network engineers, applied science managers, and technical product managers were part of the job cuts, the report mentioned. In its cloud computing division "AWS" (Amazon Web Services), those who lost their jobs had titles of software development engineer, senior program manager, account representative, cloud architect and quality assurance engineer. Further, layoffs were also made in the company's payments organisation, which oversees units such as the online payment processing service Amazon Pay. Among those laid off were engineers, product managers, and employees working on the company's Venmo checkout integration. The report further mentioned that the cuts also included employees working on Amazon's various healthcare offerings. As part of the job cuts, Amazon Pharmacy, the online pharmacy it launched in 2020, lost program managers, risk compliance managers, and billing managers. Employees working on digital health tools and the Halo health and fitness tracker were also laid off. Amazon's drone delivery unit saw widespread layoffs, with employees laid off in Washington, Oregon , Texas, and California. Employees from the design, maintenance, systems engineering, flight testing, and flight operations units were among those laid off, according to the report, citing sources. Other divisions that saw layoffs were Marketplace, Retail, Real Estate, Operations, and Zappos (Online shoe seller). Don’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp. click here! Wednesday, 01 Feb, 2023 Experience Your Economic Times Newspaper, The Digital Way! Read Complete Print Edition » Front Page Pure Politics Companies Economy More Adani Enterprises FPO Fully Subscribed on Final Day The ₹20,000-crore follow-on public offering (FPO) of Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) was fully subscribed on the final day of the offer Tuesday, January 31, thanks to late demand from family offices, corporates, and foreign investors. How Gautam Adani Lost $75b Market Value but Pulled off $2. 5b Issue after Short Attack It was around 5. 30 in the morning last Wednesday when senior Adani officials got the breaking news, hours before the anchor book — the institutional pillar of any issuance — of the ₹20,000-crore ($2. 5 billion) follow-on offer (FPO) of Adani Enterprises Ltd was to open. Flipkart Esop Sale: Big PeDay for Nigam, Chari The cofounders of PhonePe, Sameer Nigam and Rahul Chari, are expected to receive individual cash payouts of $20-25 million by completely liquidating their stock options in erstwhile parent company Flipkart, according to people aware of the development. Read More News on Amazon Layoffs layoffs tech layoffs amazon twitter meta facebook oregon amazon video Stay on top of technology and startup news that matters. Subscribe to our daily newsletter for the latest and must-read tech news, delivered straight to your inbox. . . . more less ETPrime stories of the day Real Estate Interest rates are rising, so are rental yields. Is it the right time to invest in property? 8 mins read 3 insights to kick-start your day, featuring Swiggy’s “poor judgement” 3 mins read Strategy Stock Radar: Technical charts suggest HDFC Bank is likely to hit fresh record highs in next 3-6 months; time to buy? 3 mins read Subscribe to ETPrime.