Amazon vs Google (Alphabet): which job is safer?
Layoff risk for Engineering roles in India, scored this morning from confirmed layoffs, WARN filings, earnings, hiring and news signals.
Amazon
AMZN • E-Commerce & Cloud
- 7-day move
- -3
- Employee reports
- 2 in 30d
- Safer than
- 5% of 78
- Layoffs (1 yr)
- 5 · 3,923 roles
Most recent confirmed cut: Jul 22, 2026, 1,110 roles.
Full Amazon reportGoogle (Alphabet)
GOOGL • Search & Cloud
- 7-day move
- +3
- Employee reports
- 2 in 30d
- Safer than
- 18% of 78
- Layoffs (1 yr)
- 3 · 202 roles
Most recent confirmed cut: Aug 5, 2026, 52 roles.
Full Google (Alphabet) reportAmazon vs Google (Alphabet), signal by signal
| Signal | Amazon | Google (Alphabet) |
|---|---|---|
| Layoff risk score | 54 / 100 | 42 / 100 |
| Risk band | HIGH | MODERATE |
| 7-day move | -3 | +3 |
| 30-day move | -10 | +8 |
| Confirmed layoffs (1 yr) | 5 | 3 |
| Disclosed roles cut (1 yr) | 3,923 | 202 |
| WARN notices (7 d) | 1 | 6 |
| Layoff headlines (7 d) | 3 | 0 |
| Employee sentiment | nervous | nervous |
| Employee-reported layoffs (30 d) | 2 | 2 |
| Employee mood votes (30 d) | 11 · 59% worried | 6 · 42% worried |
Green marks the safer side of each row. Lower is better on every risk signal except open roles and revenue growth, where more is the healthier reading.
90-day risk trend, side by side
Should you switch from Amazon to Google (Alphabet)?
Google (Alphabet) scores 42/100 (moderate risk) against Amazon's 54/100 (high) for Engineering roles in India — a 12-point gap. What sits behind the gap: Amazon has confirmed 3,923 roles across 5 announcements in the past year against 202 roles across 3 announcements at Google (Alphabet), and 59% of the 11 votes cast at Amazon read nervous or panicked, against 42% of 6 at Google (Alphabet). Cutting the other way, Amazon's risk fell 10 points over the last 30 days while Google (Alphabet)'s rose 8 points.
Direction matters as much as level. Over the last 30 days Amazon's risk score fell 10 points and Google (Alphabet)'s rose 8 points. That is narrowing the gap, so the current verdict is the weaker of the two readings — check it again before you sign anything.
On confirmed events, Amazon has 5 confirmed layoffs totalling 3,923 disclosed roles, the latest on Jul 22. Google (Alphabet) has 3 confirmed layoffs totalling 202 disclosed roles, the latest on Aug 5. Confirmed cuts are the heaviest input to the score and they decay on a half-life rather than expiring, so a large recent round keeps weighing on a company for months while an old one fades gradually.
In the last seven days: Amazon shed 3 points: its Jul 22 cut of 1,110 roles decaying out of the window, 36 days on; and a WARN notice filed with a state labour department this week. Google (Alphabet) added 3 points: a still-weighted cut of 52 roles on Aug 5 and 6 WARN notices filed with state labour departments this week.
Employee sentiment, blended from anonymous reports and the data signals, reads nervous at Amazon and nervous at Google (Alphabet), off 2 and 2 employee reports in the last 30 days respectively. Sentiment moves earlier than confirmed events but is far noisier, so treat it as a leading indicator rather than a score.
One caveat worth stating plainly: this compares employer-level risk, not your risk. Any engineering role on a revenue-critical team at the riskier company can be safer than a cost-centre role at the safer one. Read the score as the weather, not the forecast for your specific seat.