India, Oct. 2 -- Google carried out layoffs in its Cloud division this week as part of its larger aim to become a faster and more efficient organization. The number of employees affected by the latest round of layoffs is not immediately clear, but several people took to LinkedIn to share that their roles had been made redundant.

Among them was a woman on an O-1 visa who had been hired by Google just six months ago. She had earlier worked at Meta and Apple.

An O-1 is a type of nonimmigrant visa granted by the United States to individuals of "extraordinary ability" in a certain field. Unlike an H-1B visa holder that can work in any degree-requiring specialty occupation with their sponsoring employer, an O-1 visa is reserved for people at ...