Lucrative offer from late-stage startup but…
Current job and offered job are both based in Indiana. Current job with Cummins provides reliable immigration support. Stage 1 of my permanent residency process has been initiated and my estimate is, I am roughly 21 months away from Stage 2 i.e. an approved I-140.
If I accept an offer with this startup, I will have to restart my permanent residency process. My estimate is this puts me roughly 28 months away from an approved I-140. That’s about all the time I have left on my h1b visa. I have asked if this startup can premium process my I-140 but so far, they have been reluctant to do so.
Poll: what would you do? Does the offered TC justify joining a startup and risking immigration status?
Current TC
Base salary - 91k
Target variable comp - 8%
Offered TC
Base salary - 104k
Variable comp - 6% to 10%
Pre-IPO stock options - 20,000 vested over 4 years
#equity #startup #cummins
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Product Engineer (ebu)
Product Engineer tech spec (ebu)
Product manager (CTT)
Strategy manager
Then moved out
Product Engineer & Sr. Product Engineer (ebu)
Currently a Tech Spec (npbu)
In summary, I’d reached a conclusion similar to yours i.e. can’t compromise peace of mind inherent with immigration policies at companies like Cummins or Amazon (once their process is underway).
Here’s a crazy idea. Can h1b employees work a part-time job at this start-up in addition to a full-time job at Cummins? Here’s where I’m coming from - opportunities for pre-IPO stock options are hard to come by so I’m just thinking out loud ideas that could return at least a part of the overall pie. This needs legal input and might be a post of its own on Blind!
Whatever this startup end up saying, unless its part of your offer or documented (or until they actually file), i would not consider the premium processing a done deal