Surprises from Big Tech - How to deal with a bait & switch?

My employer pulled a bait and switch on me, my job role (SWE) turned into a non-technical one right after hiring and I feel it’s pushing me out of tech. Even moved to another country for this job, I stayed in the job to pay back relocation money & because it was big tech - did not want to leave after 3-6 months in, I’m close to completing the 2 years mark to end the relocation debt. I’m officially an engineer and paid as one, but since the beginning I’ve not been assigned technical work, only small “scripts” or some “data analysis” my manager supposedly needed.

I’ve never seen anything I wrote go to production and it’s hurting my self confidence. I’ve already moved to another team after 7-8 months in - because of the lack of technical work and encountered very weird behaviour there too: supposedly it takes 1 year (!!) to onboard onto this team, I’ve never been assigned to technical tasks to this day - it’s mostly been data curation and localization. Their strategy to keep people is to give them overinflated performance review feedback and a handsome bonus and raise every year so they keep their mouth shut to upper management (other offices within Apple). It’s a disgusting tactic.

For example in my first year performance review they’ve “made up” projects I had not actually participated in. Management doesn’t care, they say it’s product development and it’s equally important to find solutions that don’t involve code, they have a way of justifying their lies. I’m close to 2 years in and am ashamed of the consequences of this absence from the tech field.

In 1:1s with managers or hire ups they always say it’s technical work, but then eventually one finds out it’s data hillclimbing or data curation. I feel my trust has been abused, I’ve moved to another country for this job (jobs in this market are 3 times lower than what I'm paid now so my only chance is remote I guess) and haven’t grown at all professionally.

Thanks for letting me share this here, I never thought I’d end up with this dilemma when I was offered this big tech job. I was thinking of anonymously reporting this (company has an anonymous line for this), as having internationals move over for this job and destroying their careers should not be an option. I wish I could just forewarn people somehow about applying here.