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.
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!
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.
google got where they are, in large part, because when everyone else was laying off after dot-bomb, they hired anyone sharp.
someone with a bit of smarts and cash has a real opportunity if they are willing to take it and hire aggressively.
@paul_ipv6 @inthehands @davidgerard not just that: they pointedly refused to do layoffs in 2008-09 when the world was imploding during the GFC. The amount of employee loyalty they engendered then was incalculable and they’ve now burned it to the ground for… what exactly?
(I don’t want to pretend that they were without fault then, as IIRC they quietly shed a ton of contractors. But they did right by their FTEs.)
@inthehands i also can’t help thinking about how many people with enough money on the side decided to start working on a project, and maybe recruit a couple of their friends, to work on the thing they couldn’t at work.
Not all of these will work, but unless i’m wrong they’ll have to face a lot of competition to either buy out, or fight in the next few years.
@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.
@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
@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.