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
- -10
- 30-day move
- -21
- Safer than
- 4% of 89
- Layoffs (1 yr)
- 5 · 1,520 roles
Most recent confirmed cut: Sep 1, 2026, 148 roles.
Full Amazon reportGoogle (Alphabet)
GOOGL • Search & Cloud
- 7-day move
- no change
- 30-day move
- -14
- Safer than
- 25% of 89
- Layoffs (1 yr)
- 1 · 52 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 | 52 / 100 | 38 / 100 |
| Risk band | HIGH | MODERATE |
| 7-day move | -10 | 0 |
| 30-day move | -21 | -14 |
| Confirmed layoffs (1 yr) | 5 | 1 |
| Disclosed roles cut (1 yr) | 1,520 | 52 |
| WARN notices (7 d) | 12 | 0 |
| Layoff headlines (7 d) | 14 | 0 |
| Employee sentiment | stable | stable |
| Employee-reported layoffs (30 d) | 0 | 0 |
| Employee mood votes (30 d) | 1 · 100% 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 38/100 (moderate risk) against Amazon's 52/100 (high) for Engineering roles in India — a 14-point gap. What sits behind the gap: Amazon has confirmed 1,520 roles across 5 announcements in the past year against 52 roles across 1 announcement at Google (Alphabet). Cutting the other way, Amazon's risk fell 21 points over the last 30 days while Google (Alphabet)'s fell 14 points.
Direction matters as much as level. Over the last 30 days Amazon's risk score fell 21 points and Google (Alphabet)'s fell 14 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 1,520 disclosed roles, the latest on Sep 1. Google (Alphabet) has 1 confirmed layoff totalling 52 disclosed roles 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 10 points: its Sep 1 cut of 148 roles decaying out of the window, 43 days on; and 12 WARN notices filed with state labour departments this week.
Employee sentiment, blended from anonymous reports and the data signals, reads stable at Amazon and stable at Google (Alphabet). 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.