I worked at Amazon on an F-1 visa as layoffs mounted. Here's why I left for a semiconductor company.

Vinit Juneja says his visa status was one of several factors that influenced his decision to leave Amazon. Vinit Juneja Vinit Juneja left his software engineering role at Amazon earlier this year. As an F-1 visa holder, he said Big Tech layoffs reshaped how he thought about job security. He explained why he chose the semiconductor industry and how AI helped him ramp up quickly. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vinit Juneja, a technical product manager at Applied Materials…