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What about formal requirements? The software field in the US is known for not caring a whole lot about people's educational backgrounds as long as they can do t

• Galaxeblaffer 7y ago
  Maybe the companies don't care, but apparently the US government does. There's a hard requirement for H-1B, that the applicant hold at least a four-year bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or its equivalent, and will be employed in a position which requires such a degree.
  • ojbyrne 7y ago
    From uscis.gov: ‘Have education, training, or progressively responsible experience in the specialty that is equivalent to the completion of such a degree, and have recognition of expertise in the specialty through progressively responsible positions directly related to the specialty.’ https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/h-1b-specialty-occupations-dod-cooperative-research-and-development-project-workers-and-fashion-models https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...
  • notus 7y ago
    Well that's because the government is the government. They also automatically filter out applications that don't contain certain keywords which results in people turning in several page resumes full of keywords.
• lawl 7y ago
  > Is Switzerland the same or are degrees hard requirements? It's mixed. Some companies don't care, some do. In my experience, engineers usually don't care, HR sometimes does. So it's mostly getting past HR by playing bullshit bingo in your CV and list any tech you've ever heard of as 'intermediate' skill level so HR finds something when they Ctrl+F. Not sure about getting a work permit/visa though, it likely won't help not to have formal education.