Tech layoffs cause havoc for Indian workers in the United States

The Amazon headquarters campus in the South Lake Union neighbourhood of Seattle, Washington, US. Mass job cuts by US tech giants including Google, Meta and Amazon are turning life upside down for Indian workers on H-1B visas. — Bloomberg

RICHMOND, Virginia: Indian engineering manager Abheer was in the middle of a performance review cycle when he was suddenly laid off from his job at Google – victim of a wave of industry-wide cutbacks.

“Everything was going fine,” said Abheer, 31, who asked to use a pseudonym to protect his identity. “I know a few people who actually got promoted in October and (then) they were laid off ... there’s no kind of foresight that this is coming.”