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Broke And On A Visa Deadline: How An Indian Techie Cracked A Microsoft Job
An Indian immigrant shares how referrals, resume tailoring, and persistence helped him overcome visa pressure and job rejections to build a successful career at Microsoft.
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Indian Techie In US Reveals Secret To Landing Jobs At Big Tech Companies
Microsoft senior product manager Rishabh Jolly emphasised referrals and authentic storytelling as crucial to securing jobs at big tech firms.
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Revised H-1B Fee Only For New Applicants, Won't Affect Renewals Either: Sources
In a big relief for Indians who are currently on H-1B visas, the new $100,000 fee will apply only to the next upcoming lottery cycle and not existing holders or renewals, a White House official told NDTV.
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'Put America First': Trump's Big Warning To Tech Firms Against Hiring Indians
US President Donald Trump has criticised American technology companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple for hiring workers from India and outsourcing manufacturing to China.
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Perplexity AI CEO Shares How Google Retained An Employee He Wanted To Hire
Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of search engine Perplexity AI, recently shared an interesting incident that sheds light on how big tech companies are ready to shell a great amount of money to retain talent.
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Facebook Parent Meta to Lay Off 10,000 Employees Just Four Months After First Round of Job Cuts
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs, just four months after it let go 11,000 employees, the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs. "We expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven’t yet hired," Chief Executive Of...
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Silicon Valley Layoffs Blessing For Agricultural Equipment Makers
Big agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the American Midwest are on a mission to lure Silicon Valley tech workers who have been caught up in a wave of hiring freezes and layoffs, executives told Reuters.
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Apple Avoids Mass Layoffs Amid Ongoing Slowdown Because of Efficient Hiring During the Pandemic: Details
Apple is under less pressure to lay off workers amid the ongoing economic slowdown thanks to cautious hiring during the pandemic, compared to rivals Amazon, Microsoft, and Google that have laid off thousands of workers. While the Cupertino company has frozen hiring in some areas and is keeping a lid on spending, it hasn’t yet resorted to mass lay...
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Big Tech Is Firing Employees by the Thousands. Why? and How Worried Should We Be?
Since the end of the pandemic hiring spree, large numbers of employees have been fired from major tech companies, including Alphabet (12,000 employees), Amazon (18,000), Meta (11,000), Twitter (4,000), Microsoft (10,000) and Salesforce (8,000). Why exactly led to this massive shakeout? And what does it mean for the industry, and you?
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Meta to Freeze Hiring to Cut Costs Following First Quarterly Revenue Drop, Plunging Profit: Report
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly informed the company's employees during a weekly all-hands meeting that the company will freeze hiring to cut costs, amid rough economic conditions, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal that states the company wants to cut expenses by at least 10 percent. Back in July, Zuckerberg reportedly told e...
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Google CEO Sends Hiring Slow Down Memo to Employees: What It Really Means
The turbulent economic conditions have caused concern in big tech companies as well as the start-ups about a possible recession.
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Amazon Working on an AR Device, Suggests New Job Listings
Amazon is reportedly working on augmented reality devices. The e-commerce giant is looking to hire several people for an unannounced augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) product, suggest new listings on the Amazon Jobs page.
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10,000 Jobs In EU: Facebook's Big "Metaverse" Virtual Reality Plan
Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the "metaverse", a virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future.
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Twitter India Looking for Grievance Officer Following WhatsApp, Facebook, After Hiring Second Interim Officer in July
Twitter is once again looking for a grievance officer for India. It has posted a job listing on LinkedIn following that of Facebook and WhatsApp from a few weeks earlier. The Indian government had asked social media platforms and big tech firms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, and others to appoint resident grievance officers.
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Google Parent Alphabet Rides Pandemic-Driven Retail Advertising to Post Record Sales
Google parent Alphabet topped quarterly sales expectations for its advertising and Cloud businesses, helped in part by the pandemic, and said it will resume big spending on hiring and facility construction.
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Broke And On A Visa Deadline: How An Indian Techie Cracked A Microsoft Job
An Indian immigrant shares how referrals, resume tailoring, and persistence helped him overcome visa pressure and job rejections to build a successful career at Microsoft.
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Indian Techie In US Reveals Secret To Landing Jobs At Big Tech Companies
Microsoft senior product manager Rishabh Jolly emphasised referrals and authentic storytelling as crucial to securing jobs at big tech firms.
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Revised H-1B Fee Only For New Applicants, Won't Affect Renewals Either: Sources
In a big relief for Indians who are currently on H-1B visas, the new $100,000 fee will apply only to the next upcoming lottery cycle and not existing holders or renewals, a White House official told NDTV.
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'Put America First': Trump's Big Warning To Tech Firms Against Hiring Indians
US President Donald Trump has criticised American technology companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple for hiring workers from India and outsourcing manufacturing to China.
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Perplexity AI CEO Shares How Google Retained An Employee He Wanted To Hire
Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of search engine Perplexity AI, recently shared an interesting incident that sheds light on how big tech companies are ready to shell a great amount of money to retain talent.
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Facebook Parent Meta to Lay Off 10,000 Employees Just Four Months After First Round of Job Cuts
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs, just four months after it let go 11,000 employees, the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs. "We expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven’t yet hired," Chief Executive Of...
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Silicon Valley Layoffs Blessing For Agricultural Equipment Makers
Big agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the American Midwest are on a mission to lure Silicon Valley tech workers who have been caught up in a wave of hiring freezes and layoffs, executives told Reuters.
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Apple Avoids Mass Layoffs Amid Ongoing Slowdown Because of Efficient Hiring During the Pandemic: Details
Apple is under less pressure to lay off workers amid the ongoing economic slowdown thanks to cautious hiring during the pandemic, compared to rivals Amazon, Microsoft, and Google that have laid off thousands of workers. While the Cupertino company has frozen hiring in some areas and is keeping a lid on spending, it hasn’t yet resorted to mass lay...
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Big Tech Is Firing Employees by the Thousands. Why? and How Worried Should We Be?
Since the end of the pandemic hiring spree, large numbers of employees have been fired from major tech companies, including Alphabet (12,000 employees), Amazon (18,000), Meta (11,000), Twitter (4,000), Microsoft (10,000) and Salesforce (8,000). Why exactly led to this massive shakeout? And what does it mean for the industry, and you?
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Meta to Freeze Hiring to Cut Costs Following First Quarterly Revenue Drop, Plunging Profit: Report
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly informed the company's employees during a weekly all-hands meeting that the company will freeze hiring to cut costs, amid rough economic conditions, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal that states the company wants to cut expenses by at least 10 percent. Back in July, Zuckerberg reportedly told e...
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Google CEO Sends Hiring Slow Down Memo to Employees: What It Really Means
The turbulent economic conditions have caused concern in big tech companies as well as the start-ups about a possible recession.
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Amazon Working on an AR Device, Suggests New Job Listings
Amazon is reportedly working on augmented reality devices. The e-commerce giant is looking to hire several people for an unannounced augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) product, suggest new listings on the Amazon Jobs page.
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10,000 Jobs In EU: Facebook's Big "Metaverse" Virtual Reality Plan
Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the "metaverse", a virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future.
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Twitter India Looking for Grievance Officer Following WhatsApp, Facebook, After Hiring Second Interim Officer in July
Twitter is once again looking for a grievance officer for India. It has posted a job listing on LinkedIn following that of Facebook and WhatsApp from a few weeks earlier. The Indian government had asked social media platforms and big tech firms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, and others to appoint resident grievance officers.
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Google Parent Alphabet Rides Pandemic-Driven Retail Advertising to Post Record Sales
Google parent Alphabet topped quarterly sales expectations for its advertising and Cloud businesses, helped in part by the pandemic, and said it will resume big spending on hiring and facility construction.
