The tech job landscape has changed significantly post-ZIRP. It used to be as a foreign worker you’d get sponsored for a green card after working at a big tech for a few years.
But due to layoffs companies have to first make a case for why they laid off an American to then sponsor a foreigner. Many tech companies including Google and now Amazon have paused sponsoring green cards for their employees given this reality.
@carnage4life even pre-ZIRP you’d see a lot of companies vie for foreigners, only to have half-assed legal departments to actually help with immigration. So people would join with high expectations, only to get themselves into hot water when the company didn’t follow through on (critical) promises. That, imo, is far worse.
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