Former Google techie offers survival tips for H-1B visa holders amid layoffs
H-1B visa is offering advice to fellow tech immigrants on LinkedIn. The Chinese national, who also experienced a layoff at Amazon previously, shared his strategies for weathering job loss.
Having previously navigated a layoff in 2019 he took a proactive approach when he noticed Google initiating another round of job cuts. Seeing similar actions at other tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and X (formerly Twitter), he realized that his own position could be at risk. Instead of waiting to be caught off guard, he chose to prepare in advance for the possibility of being laid off. His story underscores the unique difficulties encountered by H-1B visa holders during layoffs, where securing a new sponsoring employer is crucial for maintaining legal status in the country. He outlined five main strategies he employed to mitigate the impact.
5 tips the Google techie shared for H-1B visa holders in his post:
Since the first round of massive layoffs at Google in Jan 2022, I started to realize this could happen to myself at anytime for no reason. For hundreds of times when I walked into the office, I asked myself what if I can no longer do it again, how could I protect myself? Instead of getting hit totally off guard, I better prepare for it a head of time to 'embrace' the layoffs.
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