I'm an L4 SDE, at amazon since about a year and few months, currently on STEM OPT, and this will be the last H1B filing for me. Manager said my last years performance hasn't been up to the mark, and indirectly said to find a new job. At this point I'm just broken, my hands and feet are numb. If I knew about this even a couple of months before I would at least start preparing for interviews elsewhere but now I'm just panicking. Went through a patch of major anxiety last year already with panic attacks, and I'm feeling they might relapse. Haven't been active on Leetcode, so I'll need a bit of time to even get ready for interviews. I believe there is a 60 day unemployment period for STEM OPT, but I'm pretty sure that isn't enough. I used most of the 90 day initial OPT unemployment because COVID hit when I was searching for jobs. What are honestly my options, do I need to prepare to leave the country, or reason with my manager to keep me for a while till I search for a new job? Any help would honestly be greatly appreciated. #engineering #swe #software
Hang in there bud
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If you don’t get h1b, how many more tries do you have? If you have to stay in the country, try getting a swe job that allows student visa work and go to some easy shell remote university until you get h1b. You need to be full time student and employee but some firms allow that. Try going to Canada 🇨🇦 it’s not USA but it’s close and you’ll have a chance again to come to USA after a few years
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This will be my last try, my STEM OPT ends just after the end of this year.
Very sorry to hear this. Job market is still hot so you should be able to find a new gig. Just out of curiosity, with the well known PIP culture at Amazon, how is this taking you by surprise ?
I recently delivered a pretty good project and had good relationship with the team members, so this was kind of unexpected.
Understandable. This is the problem with quota based PIP. If your manager needs to sacrifice someone your performance doesn’t mean anything. Once again just shake it off. You can find a job quickly and it will likely be a TC boost with better culture.
Can you try to change teams?
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Does google hire people on their last year of stem? I heard the team matching and all is too long so by the time things will happen h1b lottery would have already happened..
Internal transfer ?
He is probably on dev list without his knowledge. So internal transfer is not possible.
Sorry. What do you mean that he’s on “dev list”?
Dude you're in hottest field out there, have Amazon tag on resume. Don't worry you can find something else. Get out of negative mindset, start prepping and applying and hope for the best.
This. Start prepping with positive mind set. With Amazon tag other companies would hire you... Also apply to Infosys, tcs, Accenture
Exactly, before my offer with MSFT. I was talking with a startup that was over the moon that most of their engineers came from "Amazon". The name opens doors.
go with consultancy, let them file your H1B, get into a good project, learn about work technology on that project, spend one year, then leetcode grind and move to another company.
I agree here, any good consultancy should be able to do your coming H1 seamlessly Plus the hiring rounds are minimum
Can you let me know of any consultancies, or those that can help getting good projects?
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That’s so kind! Assuming your fitting for internal position. I’m impressed.
Good on you Amazon HM!