India, Nov. 3 -- Ecommerce giant Amazon laid off 1,000 employees in India over the last week as part of its ongoing global restructuring exercise, sources told Inc42.

The exercise is ongoing in the current week as well and will impact mid-senior and senior level employees. Overall, the number of employees being impacted by the exercise in India may go to up to 2,000, the sources added.

Layoffs are currently underway at Amazon's Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru offices, with Prime Video, people experience and tech/ human resources, Q&A devices, retail stores and AWS verticals hit the hardest.

"In some verticals entire teams have been laid off. Mostly, L3 to L7 levels have been impacted," one of the sources said.

L3 to L7 represent a pr...