Do FAANG and tier below still sponsor H1Bs from outside of US for SWE roles? Anyone has recent experience doing such move that would be willing to share their experience? Not really an option to work for one locally - based in Northern Ireland so most US companies here are insurance/banks etc . 12 YOE Current TC ~90K GBP. Work experience wise - lot of back end exp, some front end / full stack, mostly Java, Kotlin, Scala, C#; old school JS/jQuery and Angular on F/E side. Some work in distributed systems (Paxos based active-active multi data center / cloud data replication), but mostly just normal microservices / messaging pipelines etc. BS degree. Would prefer Bay Area rather than Seattle as I am sick of gray rainy weather.
Apple do sponsor H1B for people outside of US. I have a colleague that was in that situation. But you need to really to ace the interviews.