A software engineer who spent seven years at Amazon says he has been unable to find new work for eight months after being laid off in late 2025, in a story that has struck a nerve across the global tech community after he shared it on Reddit.
The anonymous ex-Amazon employee posted his account on r/Layoffs, a subreddit that has quietly become a running log of the tech industry's comedown after years of aggressive hiring. The user said he lost his job at Amazon in the fourth quarter of 2025, at a point when many major firms were still trimming headcount and warning of weaker demand. Even then, he wrote, he assumed that seven years at one of the world's most recognisable technology companies would be enough to secure a relatively swift return to work.
