Overview
- Google executed a new round of layoffs in its Cloud division this week, with design and UX research roles among those affected.
- The scale of the reductions remains undisclosed, but multiple LinkedIn posts from employees confirm the cuts.
- One affected employee on an O‑1 visa, hired six months ago as a quantitative UX researcher on Cloud generative AI and security, says she has roughly 60 days to find new sponsorship or leave the United States.
- O‑1 visas are tied to specific employers, which makes job loss more immediately consequential because transfers require a new petitioner.
- Google has not announced details on severance or any visa support for impacted staff.