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As big tech layoffs eliminated roughly 80,000 jobs in 2025, new data shows recent computer science and engineering graduates facing unemployment and underemployment rates well above the national average — right as H-1B approvals sit near record highs.
Company-by-company H-1B filing data shows Google, Apple and Microsoft hiring nearly as many new H-1B workers as they laid off American employees over the same stretch — a pattern that undercuts the industry's talent-shortage narrative.
The Department of Labor says it now has 175 active investigations into H-1B abuse under "Project Firewall," with over $15 million in back wages already identified — a number that says as much about how normalized the abuse became as it does about enforcement.
Oracle's sweeping 2026 restructuring cut roughly 30,000 jobs worldwide, but for the H-1B holders among them the layoff came bundled with a 60-day deadline to find new sponsorship or leave the country.