US grocery and retail technology company Hy-Vee has abruptly shut down its India engineering centre, cutting around 150 jobs during a 9 PM Microsoft Teams call on June 29, 2026, as part of a broader restructuring effort.
According to employee accounts shared on social media, the entire engineering team was informed during the call that their roles were being eliminated, with no prior warning or severance package offered. Many of the affected employees had joined the company less than two years ago, some starting as interns before converting to full-time roles.
One affected engineer, posting on Reddit, said: “Around 150 members of our engineering team were invited to a 9 PM Microsoft Teams call, where we were informed that our team was being shut down as part of a restructuring.” The employee added that there was no severance or layoff package, calling it “one meeting, and it was over.“
Amit Goel, Hy-Vee’s director of engineering in India, confirmed the closure in a LinkedIn post, writing: “Our Hy-Vee India centre has shut down, and with immediate effect, some of the best engineers I’ve had the privilege of working with are now looking for their next opportunity.” Goel noted the team had been built carefully over recent months, with hires from companies including Amazon and Myntra, and said he was helping affected employees find new roles.
Hy-Vee, an employee-owned US supermarket chain with over 280 stores and close to 20,000 employees globally, had not issued a public statement on the layoffs, the severance claims, or the centre’s closure at the time of reporting. The episode has reignited debate online over statutory notice-pay obligations and the abruptness of offshore engineering cuts at global capability centres in India.
