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Not every software engineer has the fortune to be born in the USA :(

• cheetos 10y ago
  Being born in the USA is not a requirement for getting a job as a software engineer in the USA. It's hard, but not impossible at all.
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  • winter_blue 10y ago
    I've explained here how hard it is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12169640 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12169640 (The U.S. is quite hostile to employment-based immigration, and probably among the hardest countries to move to for a non-family non-refugee immigrant.) Also: have noticed the sheer amount of sickening hatred of immigrants in this thread? These entitled pricks think that they're the only ones deserving of an opportunity to live and work in the US (because they were "born here"), and they think everyone else should be kept out. It continues to amaze me how much contempt and hatred there is for immigrants, here on HN.
  • wrong_variable 10y ago
    Recent Graduates do not have the experience for companies to risk going through the hassle of getting visa in america. The way it works it seems is that companies are willingly to take the risk if you have proven yourself very well outside of america.
    • zzzcpan 10y ago
      I'm pretty sure the opposite is true. It's much easier for a recent CS graduate to get a job offer in the US, than for anyone else. But I agree somewhat, that software engineering is not the field, where you are likely to be able to have a career.
• jazzyk 10y ago
  Not every US-based software engineer has the fortune to work/live in Sillicon Valley ;-)
  • wrong_variable 10y ago
    So many people in HN do not understand this, the avg. software job is ASP.NET development :(
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