Missing the biggest tell, probably because Amazon avoids providing them in the first place: Cutting back on irrelevant benefits like food and office supplies.

Missing the biggest tell, probably because Amazon avoids providing them in the first place: Cutting back on irrelevant benefits like food and office supplies. Executives usually don't like layoffs and try to avoid them with easy cuts to things people won't miss. Since these easy cuts are never meaningful (else someone would have already done them), they almost always proceed to the next steps like layoffs.