India, April 17 -- At a time when many Indian tech professionals in the United States are worried about the immigration crackdown and a downturn in the IT industry leading to layoffs, one Microsoft engineer has quit his job and moved back to India.

Harnoor Singh spent three years as a software engineer with Microsoft in the United States. Along the way, he pursued a successful career as a YouTuber and podcast host. In a surprise announcement yesterday, however, Singh revealed that he had resigned from his role at Microsoft and moved back to India.

"I resigned and moved to India for now! Thank you Microsoft for beautiful 3 years!" Singh wrote on X.

He revealed that he wants to take a six-month career break before deciding what to do nex...