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November 4, 2025

By Samara Linton November 4, 2025 in Articles, Techish, Uncategorized Comments Off on Amazon Cuts 30K Jobs. Even Engineers Weren’t Safe – Techish Podcast

Amazon Cuts 30K Jobs. Even Engineers Weren’t Safe – Techish Podcast

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This week on Techish, hosts Michael and Abadesi breakdown Amazon’s cutting 10% of its corporate workforce, the future of HR in tech, why networking and referrals matter more than ever, and leaving a toxic workplace. And for the Patreon folk, did Mango founder Isak Andic fall to his death or was he pushed?

Chapters

00:30 Amazon Lays Off 30,000 Employees
14:22 Why Referrals Are Key to Beating the Job Market
19:10 Exit Interviews at a Toxic Company
24:31 Mango Founder Falls to His Death — Now His Son Is Under Investigation [Patreon Only]

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Samara Linton

Head of Community & Content at POCIT | Co-editor of The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour (2022), and co-author of Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography (2020)