Google has laid off at least 200 employees from its 'core' team, just ahead of its blowout first-quarter earnings report on April 25. This comes nearly two days after Google fired employees from its Flutter, Dart, and Python teams just weeks before its annual developer conference.

According to a report, the tech giant will also move some roles to India and Mexico. 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.

"We intend to maintain our current global footprint while also expanding in high-growth global workforce locations so that we can operate closer to our partners and developer communities," the email by Husain read.

According to Google's website, the 'core' team builds the technical foundation behind the company's flagship products.