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Amazon Reportedly Seeks to Rehire Former Workers for AI and Cloud Roles

Amazon is reportedly rehiring former workers for AWS, cloud and AI roles while reviewing departures and RTO impact.

AI News Feed · 2026-09-24 22:06

The reported hiring push covers AWS, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning and agentic AI. One recruiter referred to the effort as "Swami's Boomerang Reengagement Initiative," a reference to Swami Sivasubramanian, a vice president for AWS Agentic AI. Amazon is also said to be making it easier for former employees to return by offering shortened interview processes that may skip some screening steps.

Business Insider also reported that Amazon is investigating why former employees left and what impact its return-to-office mandates may have had. The company wants to know whether the RTO changes were behind some ex-workers' departures, according to the report.

Amazon spokesperson Haley Silva told Business Insider that Amazon is not specifically targeting people who left because of the RTO policy and that its in-office expectations have not changed. The company went heavily toward return-to-office requirements years ago as it sought more in-person collaboration and productivity, according to TechRadar.

The rehiring effort comes after Amazon cut around 30,000 workers in the past year. Despite those layoffs, the company continues to hire for certain roles. TechRadar reported that the approach may reflect a broader shift in focus, with Amazon looking to lose workers in some areas of the business while gaining workers in more important areas.

The reported outreach to former employees is concentrated in areas that are central to Amazon's cloud and AI strategy. AWS is a major part of Amazon's business, and agentic AI is an active field of competition among large technology companies. The company has not publicly detailed how many former workers have been contacted or how many have returned.

The information is based on recruiter emails cited by Business Insider and reported by TechRadar. Amazon has not confirmed the scale of the program or the specific interview changes described in the report.

Editor's Summary

Amazon is reportedly rehiring former employees for AWS, cloud, AI and machine learning roles, with shortened interviews and a recruiter effort called "Swami's Boomerang Reengagement Initiative." Business Insider reported that Amazon is also examining why former staff left and whether return-to-office mandates played a role, while a company spokesperson said the RTO policy is not a specific target and in-office expectations are unchanged. The effort follows roughly 30,000 layoffs in the past year and points to continued hiring in priority AI and cloud areas.