If you have to transfer outside of US because of visa issue, how easy is it to transfer to Zurich given you have been at Google for less than a year?
I hear Google Zurich is a fantastic place to work.
Curious - how are you gonna get by if you don't speak the language ?
Switzerland requires a minimum tenure of one year before you can do an internal transfer.
Remember that you’ll still owe US taxes if you’re a US citizen, so your take home pay will be significantly lower than your Swiss colleagues - and CoL is way higher in Zürich.
Actually no, in Zurich on Google's TC he'll owe about 20-25% local tax and this is about same as he'd owe to US feds so it'll roughly balance out. He won't be able to take advantage of tax resorts like Wollerau though. CoL is comparable to Bay Area, housing is even cheaper here
Yes I forgot about canton taxes
It’s as easy as regular team transfer. Just find some teams and talk with their hiring managers. Zurich has probably the most amount of openings for SWE outside of U.S. The only problems with transferring within a year is that your current manager can block it, which should not happen since you are unable to legally stay within the current team anyway. Swiss visa however might be a case by case situation. All I can comment is that Switzerland government has announced to increase the work visa next year.
Thank you. I’ve seen people commenting about Swiss visa has a requirement of 1 year tenure at current company. Is that true?
I thought it was 3