Guo, who lives in Toronto, received the bad news in a video call. She said the experience "was traumatic." Since then, she has raced to find new employment in order to secure her U.S. work visa.
Lucas Durrant is an electrical engineering graduate from Canada. He was ready to start his new job as a software engineer at Bolt, an online sales company. While on vacation a few weeks ago, he received an email stating that his offer was being taken back. Bolt announced it would begin job cuts in late May. The company blamed economic conditions.
More than 21,500 tech workers in the United States have lost their jobs so far this year. That information comes from Layoffs.fyi, a website that follows job cuts.
Reuters news agency looked at posts on LinkedIn and Google spreadsheets set up to help people who lost job offers. Reuters found that at least 40 recent college graduates had lost job offers in the past few weeks.
As of Tuesday, 22 recent graduates were listed on a spreadsheet as having offers taken back by Twitter. Nine people were listed on a separate spreadsheet for digital money trading company Coinbase.
In a statement, Twitter said it admitted that the revoked offers could put candidates in a difficult position. The company said it is offering payments to those affected.
Brian Kropp oversees research for human resources at Gartner's, a research company. Kropp said that while the technology companies may be saving money in the short term, they risk damage to their reputation.
"Just think about how unfair that is to people you're rescinding the offer from," he said. "You're putting them in a painful situation."
