Google has laid off at least 200 employees from its 'core' team, just ahead of its blowout first-quarter earnings report on April 25. According to a report with CNBC, the tech giant will also move some roles to India and Mexico.

At least 50 of the positions eliminated were in engineering at the company's offices in Sunnyvale, California, the report claimed.

The layoffs were announced by Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem, who sent an email to his employees last week. He also spoke at a town hall and told employees that this was the biggest planned reduction for his team this year, it said.

The team is responsible for underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google.

Source: India Today