Meta on Wednesday announced it would be cutting thousands of employees as part of an ongoing series of layoffs at the tech giant – among them is an Indian woman residing in the United States. The woman took to the social media platform X to seek opportunities, and her comment section was soon flooded with messages from founders and CEOs of several small AI startups.

What did she say about her visa status?

The woman clarified that she was working in the US on an H-1B visa – a visa that allows highly skilled workers to live and work in the US for up to three years at a time – and noted that her new employer would need to sponsor her visa, if she qualifies.

“I was impacted by Meta layoffs today,” she wrote. “As a Research Scientist working on LLM post-training (reward models, DPO/GRPO) and

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