But you've seen the company go through this process over the past month or so, and I think we now have our hands around the full scope of these cutbacks."Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a blog post that the staff reductions were set off by the uncertain economy and the company's rapid hiring over the last several years.Over the past decade, you've seen Amazon become a bit of a sprawling company, where they have initiatives all over the place," he says.The end of ‘everything’ at Amazon: Record layoffs signal new mindset for sprawling tech giant https://t.co/DFvRh81Rxz — toddbishop (@toddbishop) January 5, 2023Bishop says one of the company's core leadership principles is to simplify customer experience."This is a company that, even through the pandemic, really was forced to grow at a breakneck speed."