Cafeteria food is lit. Coworkers are nice. Pool table. Flexible wfh.
Legacy tech. Clueless people. Bad WLB for devs. Politics. Pay is not great considering hours worked. Very little technical growth.
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My registration was selected in the first round of the h1b lottery. H1b was filed by my employer in May, but got laid off in June. Received h1b approval notice in July but employer has already filed for h1b withdrawal with USCIS. Withdrawal is still pending. With Oct 1st being just a week away, if w...Read more
Visa began it's layoffs today. I heard that there were several Product teams which were impacted today. It's 100% legit. Feel bad for those product managers who were let go. Thought Visa was a safe Haven but it's not. Hope my engineering team isn't next! Anyone know which all teams were affected? ...Read more
Sickening. Come to America for the economy, etc, and then repay the American people with this. Not giving back jobs to locals. I hope this company fails and the founders have their visas revoked.
For immigrants, does having a $500k+ to 1 million mortgage feel similar to the uncertainties and pressures of being on an H1B visa? #mortgage #housing#technology
Deal for funding Ukraine and Israel Increases Lawful Pathways to Come to the United States For the first time in over 30 years, raises the cap on the number of immigrant visas available annually by adding an additional 250,000 immigrant visas over 5 years (50,000/year). 160,000 of these visas will...Read more
Was uncovered 3 years back, but the news was suppressed and never made to mainstream media https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/thousands-of-foreign-students-may-have-overstayed-visas-through-employment-at-shell-companies/2178507/ #tech #google
I have requested a move to the USA from Canada. Can you explain the visa situation to me? Things to note: - I'm a Canadian citizen - My husband will move with me (also a Canadian citizen) - My husband works remotely for another company
[On H1B] , living in US We are planning to travel to Italy in April/May. Looks like visa appts for Schengen visa at LA/SF are unavailable. Can i make refundable reservations for another schengen country, get the schengen visa , cancel all those tickets and travel to Italy on that schengen visa ?
What "car(s)" do you "drive" ? I'll go first 😉 1. Jag F Type 2. Tesla roadster TC - 276k, YOE - 3½ Austin TX #workvisa #h1b #rfe #apple #google #meta #amazon #netflix #intel #spotify #uber #optiver #lyft #faang #swe #machinelearningengineer #o1 #eb1 #niw #l1 #opt
Lately, there have been a lot of hate spreading towards H1b Visa holders on Blind. Mainly because of several posts due to H1b application deadline and a few updates. For starters, I would break H1b Visa holders to two groups. 1] H1b Visa directly with a company (Google, Apple, startups and the lik...Read more
EB1: India Jan 2017, China Feb 2022, all others current EB2: India Jan 2012, China Oct 2019, all others Jul 2022 EB3: India May 2012, China Jan 2020, all others Dec 2021 https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2024/visa-bulletin-for-november-2023.html
What are the exit opportunities to other fintechs or otherwise from Visa as a Product Manager
Pass out of a shitty college. Ask parents to fund your masters in America. During OPT pretend to start a company with an .ai domain. Make a webpage that calls ChatGPT in background. Give 2 YouTube interviews about how you have the best solution available in market and no one else has optimised the ...Read more
As you might have heard about Tesla Layoffs, I was also let go in these wave . If your team is hiring or if you know an open position please ping me . I’m looking SDE and SDET positions Skills , .Net Web API , C# , angular , selenium , YOE: 6 years Visa Status : H1B #layoffs #tesla #visa
I made the grave mistake of joining Rippling. I came from a FAANG company and I’m on H1B. My boss figured out really quickly that I was on visa. Maybe HR told him. My manager is constantly threatening my job. “We need this faster, a citizen could do this faster, 60 days isn’t that long to find a jo...Read more
Will people start to move to Canada? Will India finally not have such a bad talent drain issue? Wonder how all this will play out. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/05/28/high-skill-immigration-restrictions-expected-soon-from-trump/
Since trump is pausing immigration and work visa, will TN-1 visa (canada to us) be impacted? I have read that TN is a special non immigration visa under NAFTA. Thanks