Amazon, Synopsys to cut more than 275 Bay Area tech jobs

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    "title": "Amazon, Synopsys to cut more than 275 Bay Area tech jobs - San Francisco Chronicle",
    "excerpt": "Delivery trucks drive into the Amazon warehouse facility in Milpitas, California, on Feb. 9, 2024. Amazon has disclosed a new round of California layoffs affecting 148 workers in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Amazon is cutting nearly 150 jobs at offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, joining another major technology company planning layoffs in the Bay Area. The e-commerce and cloud computing giant disclosed plans to eliminate 148 positions - 78 in San Francisco and 70 in Sunnyvale - in notices filed with California employment regulators. The cuts are expected to take effect beginning Oct. 20. At the company’s downtown San Francisco office at 350 Bush St., 76 of the affected employees are listed as members of technical staff. The other two positions are a software development engineer and a senior manager in user experience and design. Advertisement Article continues below this ad In Sunnyvale, the cuts include software development engineers, applied scientists, data scientists, quality assurance engineers, technical program managers and managers, according to Amazon’s filing. The company’s filings do not give a specific reason for the Bay Area reductions. They follow broader job cuts at Amazon this year. In January, the company announced plans to eliminate about 16,000 positions globally as part of an effort to reduce management layers and bureaucracy. Synopsys , the...",
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