Today I was pushed into pip without letting me know of the dev plan. I am offered to go on pip or take severance.
I want to take severance and leave Amazon but H1B is complicating things for me. I am on OPT right now and have one last attempt left. Should I continue work on pip or take the severance and focus entirely on interviewing for different companies?
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What’s your role and level again?
I’d take the severance if you have enough unemployment days on your opt. I remember I had 5 months accumulated. You can be unemployed for 90 days on one year OPT and 120 days on the 2 year extension.
So if you take severance now and just prepare for an interview, you may get somewhere by March and get into the h1b queue by April ( if there is still one )
Alternative is grim - you trying to get out of pip, failing after 2 months, then Trying to get another job and then it’s too late for h1b
Also remember to correctly report and update sevis ( your DSO) . This might bite you later if you don’t report
I have come out of devplan last year but I know pip is a different ballgame. Plus my mangers were on my side. Yours are clearly not
Will it be hard to find a job now since I have one last attempt left?
Look into academic jobs too. They don’t have a cap for h1b so h1b is guaranteed . Pay will be less
Do you have any projects in your kitty ?