27 YO, B.Eng. +2 YOE + MS in CS. TC: 125k $, NW: 0$ Annual saving rate: 35k $ to 60k $ depending on lifestyle. European citizen. Recently finished my MS and started working as a dev in a non faang company in Europe. I'm wondering if I should save some money and then do a master in the US. Reasons being visa and more opportunities and TC in US. I'm also planning to LC and try interviews at the few offices in Europe that pay ~ US level TC, but I'm not sure how much I can count on that given the competition. Another option is PhD in US, but I don't want to stay in school for 5/6 more years. So I'd need somewhere where you could drop out with a MS after 1/2 years or somewhere where I could be done in <= 4 years. Also I'd need a college with easy entry to PhD given my average grades. Yet another option is get any FANG in Europe and try L1 transfer. But this is tricky since 1. I could potentially experience a TC cut depending on the office I get the offer from, 2. There's no guarantee of L1 transfer in short amount of time, 3. After transfer TC would probably be very low and I'd need to get visas and interview/change again. Multiple selections allowed in the poll. --- Side question: how much should I have saved to be able to afford the MS in the US? Also, do you have any recommendation on cheap and quick MSs? I just want a visa, don't care about prestige or anything, also I only have decent/avg grades so I'd need somewhere easy to enter.
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Get a high paying job in EU (FAANG) and stay there. If you are a founder of a successfull startup, then move. As IC you will be better off in EU. Also, you can do PhD in EU and postdoc in the USA.
I think this comment is on point. 2 questions though: 1. Why as IC is better in EU? 2. Does a 1 year postdoc in USA work as a MS visa wise?
You are already at a FAANG (maybe it pays less), but you can try for high paying jobs in Zurich, Amsterdam, London. And if you are lucky, you may even get L1, live in US for a few years. Since you are European, getting a GC will be easy for you too so job switch won't be a big issue in US for you. Doing MS will mean 1) paying for expensive tuition 2) losing out on earning money during those 2 years. So it will really set you back substantially plus you will live like a student for 2 years. Fwiw - I was thinking the same, then I ended up getting a high paying job in UK and scrapped my MS plans.
L1 transfer then go for green card and then find another Job.
W your TC, it doesn't make sense to come here and do a MS for 2 years. When you finish your masters you will be 240k in the hole + expenses of the masters so it will be a terrible mistake from a financial standpoint.