Amazon has spent the past month trimming its workforce in one of the biggest corporate restructurings in its history. But buried in state filings is the sharper detail: nearly 40 percent of the more than 4,700 job cuts reported in New York, California, New Jersey and Washington were engineering roles, according to WARN notices cited by CNBC.

Across the company, about 14,000 corporate positions were marked for elimination in October , the steepest cut in Amazon’s 31-year history.

The headline wasn’t just that Amazon cut jobs. It’s who got cut.

Why cut engineers at a tech company?

On paper, it looks counterintuitive. Amazon is spending aggressively on AI, cloud, and infrastructure, areas usually staffed by engineers.

Inside the company, leaders say the issue wasn’t talent, it was pace

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