Google extended me an offer, whose start date will be mid March. However my OPT will expire in May, and in April it will be my last time for H1B lottery. (For those who are not familiar with OPT/H1B, OPT is a temporary work permit while H1B is a long-term work permit which you can only get via an annual lottery in April) The HR kept assuring me that I can do team transfer if not selected in the lottery. But I wonder whether it is doable considering the tight timeline. I don’t really want to risk my status, since my current company has allowed me to do overseas team matching as a backup plan and the plan has been well designed. Early April: H1B lottery Mid May: OPT expires and have to take unpaid leave or terminate my job Late May: know the result of H1B lottery I can only start team transfer process after knowing that I don’t get selected in the lottery in Late May. By that time, I will have been placed in unpaid leave, and I don’t know if I am able to do team transfer during the maximum one month of unpaid leave. If I fail in doing so, what would happen? Will I be kicked out forever, or will I still have the chance to do team match somehow even after my job is terminated due to work permit and unpaid leave being used up? YOE: 3
I am in a similar situation. Can you guide me? Did you eventually join Google? How did everything turn out to be?
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Well. I will try my best to do team match during the unpaid leave period. Then my employment will be terminated if I don’t get matched. However, I can continue the team match process (in a less transparent way though since I won’t have access to internal websites by then) due to “google rehire policy”. Seems that Google doesn’t want to just terminate my employment after so many efforts in recruiting me :wink:
I see. I'm in a similar situation :)