For many software engineers, receiving an offer from Google is a career-defining moment. But for Gu Yichen, a California-based software engineer, that dream ended almost as soon as it began.
The 31-year-old, who works in the US on an H-1B visa, said he was laid off in Google's mass job cuts in early 2023—just weeks after joining the company and before he had completed what he describes as "a single day of real work."
