RICHMOND, Virginia ¨C Indian engineering manager Abheer was in the middle of a performance review cycle when he was suddenly laid off from his job at Google ¡ª victim of a wave of industrywide 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.¡±
The wave of tech layoffs in the United States at companies including Facebook-owner Meta Platforms, Google and Amazon.com is upending the lives of foreign workers such as Abheer who are in the country on H-1B visas reserved for high-skilled occupations.
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