Anyone out there at a company that sponsors visas? Want to hire a great graduating computer science major who knows their way around React, VueJS, Java, Python, and C# / Unity?
The job market is bleak right now for graduating students who need visas — and woweee, let me tell you, companies willing to sponsor right now could pull hires they’d •never• be able to pull in a normal hiring year.
Employers: Woe is us! We can’t hire devs! FAANGMAMAA keeps snatching them all up! We’ll do anything!
Me: Do you sponsor visas?
Employers: …We’ll do anything else!
@inthehands The US Visa lottery system is fucked Small companies play tough odds and end up spending between 5-7k per application for premium processing for new H1Bs, only for USCIS to reject petitions randomly. In the recent past, one of my companies paid for the H1B visa transfer for 5 folks. 3 of them chose to walk away and take a job at a different company (not FAANGMAMAA). That is straight 30k down the drain which is non-trivial for small businesses.
@inthehands sponsoring visas for new grads is something small companies balk at, for the sheer risk of them getting rejected and the company losing money.
@chanakya
Yeah, the visa system is shit. That said, my impression is that the kind of random rejection you describe was significantly worse under the Trump admin; hopefully odds are better now.