We want to move to Europe in the next half year. London and Zurich are on our list. I've spent all my career in systems design, so I'd like to get a position in a similar area. I have some questions about opportunities in these cities. London: - Microsoft: which teams are there? I've only seen open positions for architects and support, but not devs. Are there any dev positions? - Apple: which teams are there? - any other core it companies in London that are hiring? Zurich: - FB only has VR? - Google: I've only seen kernel security positions and staff engineer. The staff engineer description is not very concrete so I'm not sure what that job means. - Microsoft: I pretty much got the picture there. - other companies I should be considering? Again, not really interested in financial companies, because afaik often the decisions are not made by engineers which leads to a lot of uncertainty and stress. TC:190k Level: 63 #engineering #software
Google Zürich is a huge office, almost 5k FTE. Hundreds of teams, though it's definitely no HQ, and then due to corona headcounts are tight now Stock grants are ~ half of the US. Best to get hired by Google in US, negotiate a generous american sized grant and then transfer internally. You get to keep the grant.
Do you know how fast and easy is it to transfer? I mean is there a minimum period you need to be in your initial team?
Easy, just find a team with an available headcount and willing to take you. For immigration formalities you need a degree and 3+ yoe, or an EU passport. Google will take care of the rest. 1 year tenure is the official guideline to transfer. But possible earlier, on a case by case basis with additional approvals from higher ups
Google also has a huge office in London. So does FB. Palantir is another top company there. Most of Microsoft's UK presence is in Cambridge. There are a lot of interesting startups in London as well. Check out Graphcore for instance or CityMapper. Amazon has a big office in London too. My friend enjoyed working for BBC in London.
Facebook has lots of engineering teams in London.