Paul Cantrell
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.
Paul Cantrell
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!
Paul Cantrell
Seriously, though: the tech giants shot themselves in both buttocks with their foolhardy synchronized layoffs. Smart companies right now should be jumping into the opening they created.
And you want loyalty? You want retention? Try sponsoring a visa for a new grad.
Paul Cantrell
@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.
Kartik
@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.
Doctor Memory
@inthehands @davidgerard speaking as someone at a small company: muah hah hah hah absolutely right. I’ve never had so much fun going through resumes.
Paul Tomblin
@inthehands Or you could try hiring highly experienced 50 year olds who can’t get an interview with a startup because startups don’t value experience.
Paul Cantrell
@paddlefish
I’m not the one to give that talk, since I’m not in charge of hiring (and it’s thus easy for me to chuck spitballs at the people who are), but I would support such a talk.
Andy Rahn
@inthehands I smell a minnebar talk: how to hire & visa. I have no idea what’s involved in terms of cost and time and effort vs a US citizen
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