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Ask HN: Programming internationally?
If a programmer would like to work overseas for a while, how does one go about finding jobs?
Do any of you have past experience with this (particularly relocating from the US to another country)?
- davidw 18y agoIt's not all that easy - you need to find a job before you go. One way might be to just go to your target country and look for a job. If you find one, they can help you do the paperwork. You'll probably have to go back to the US at that point to get a real working visa. It's a bunch of bureaucratic BS, but c'est la vie of the average immigrant (the US treats its own immigrants in a similarly shoddy way).
- menloparkbum 18y agoI've worked in Japan. It is easy if you already have a job offer. It's probably impossible if you don't. Getting an apartment there is painful because Japanese won't rent to foreigners without a Japanese person signing the lease. I think it might even be a law? So you either need a Japanese co-signer or you have to rent a place owned by the mob.
- sanswork 18y agoIt honestly depends where you are and where you are going. I'm from Canada originally. When I moved to England I had to go to the embassy and fill out a form and show some birth certificates(I was claiming ancestry). I'm now in Australia on a working holiday visa. To get that I filled out a form on a web page and got an email a few hours later with my visa number. In both cases I found a job when I got there.