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> How would a company even determine if I'm worth hiring > and going through all the work to get me a work visa > if they can't even interview me in person?
by jmillikin 11y ago
> How would a company even determine if I'm worth hiring
> and going through all the work to get me a work visa
> if they can't even interview me in person?
No company will hire you without an in-person interview. Most companies will pay for your plane tickets and hotel for an in-person interview.
A note on in-person interviews:
You will probably be flown to Europe and do the interview in English. Most English speakers in Europe learned it as a second language. If you learned English from a local Somali school, your interviewers will not be used to your accent and may have a hard time understanding you. You should practice your accent until you sound close to British or American.
> Would they tolerate my crappy internet if they try to
> interview me over Skype?
Is your connection good enough to do a voice call at high quality? If it is, that should be sufficient.
Otherwise, you'll need to find a way to skip the initial phone interview. Most software companies do phone interviews to screen out candidates who are not capable of programming. A good substitute is a portfolio of personal projects on GitHub, showing experience with the programming languages you put on your resume.
> What if the position was for something mid-to-entry
> level and not some key position.
This will depend on the size of the company. I work at Google, and the legal department here will handle the immigration, visa, and permanent resident process even for regular low-level engineers. Smaller companies will be more selective.
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- dsacco 11y agoMy company hires without in-person interviews. We have about 1500 employees, all engineering staff are remote. Just to throw a point of reference in there.
- marosoaie 11y agoWhat company is this if you don't mind me asking?
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- xtrumanx 11y agoI don't think English would be issue for me. I consider it my first language and long story short; I sound like an American but never been west of the mid-east. I think Skype works well enough on my home connection but I don't do voice chat often. If anyone is willing to give my a mock interview over Skype my email's in my profile.
- mod 11y agoYour (written) English is essentially flawless. I presumed you must be a transplant to Somalia after reading your initial post.
- JshWright 11y ago> No company will hire you without an in-person interview. That's not at all true... We (Silent Circle) have hired plenty of people without any sort of face-to-face conversations. It's not uncommon for someone to work for us for several months before getting the chance to meet some else in the company face-to-face.
- mod 11y agoSeconded--I was hired without ever having an in-person interview. I've still never met any of my colleagues in person, after ~18 months. I didn't have any video chat interviews, either, although that's typical practice for us.
- hluska 11y agoAgain, this is a sample of one, but the last company I worked for hired developers without meeting them in person. Heck, that's how two of the best people I know ended up getting jobs in Canada!!