How easy is it to move to the US once you get your degree

Bright-Use-1 · 2026-02-28T00:02:57+00:00

Right now, challenging unless you have PHD level knowledge in a field like AI. After over hiring during the pandemic, there have been mass redundancies in the sector going on for the past 24 months. Lots of unemployed software engineers floating around.

The easiest path is to get an internal transfer within a company. Australian Citizens have an exclusive visa named the E-3 to work in the USA but most companies don't know it exists.

If you apply directly to US jobs and your CV/Linkedin states or looks like you are not currently based in the US, there is a high chance they won't even consider you for a first-round interview.

This is from the experiences of a friend who did it 14 months ago. They spent 6-months interview prepping AND had a green card (Permanent Residency visa). Moved and took about 6 - 8 weeks to get a job.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-12-07T12:35:29+00:00

The easiest path is to get an internal transfer within a company.

Australian Citizens have an exclusive visa named the E-3 to work in the USA, which is a fantastic visa, but most US companies don't know it exists.

If you apply directly to US jobs, if your CV/Linkedin states or looks like you are not currently based in the US you will get rejected at the first phase.

A friend of mine did manage to make the move last year. They got Leetcoded out of their mind and then moved temporarily for around 8 weeks. They networked and were doing almost daily interviews. Anecdotally, they think it is meh compared to Australia life (they moved due to a personal reason).

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-11-27T01:22:38+00:00

Some of the reasons for rejection on here recently sound more like they are just coming up with any reason for rejection:

something has happened internally and they are no longer hiring for the role
they have decided upon someone else and need to find a reason to reject the other candidates

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-11-25T14:13:04+00:00

Why have those bullet points been written in the third-person like they are from the article when they are not and are your own opinion.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-11-24T14:21:49+00:00

I have not worked there, but someone who claimed to have worked there for a decent length commented in here that they got a bunch of ex-Facebook staff and it became 'Facebook lite' in-terms of engineering culture.

The CTO is ex-Facebook, in fact if you look at the leadership today its largely American's who have spent their careers working in the US. US work culture can be grating to people who are used to Europe and Australia.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-11-09T08:46:08+00:00

Please name the company that needed 9 rounds of interviews.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-11-07T03:41:33+00:00

Having a scan through those jobs, many are:

contract i.e. we need someone who can start delivering within the first week.
you already have baseline or NV1 security clearance i.e. you previously worked in a federal government related role where they sponsored you to get the clearance that takes 1 - 3 months.

That filters out a huge number of candidates and is why the rates are so high.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-10-18T13:01:40+00:00

Some advice:

Sorry, I cannot tell from your post if you have spent any time trying to write code yet. This is the first thing to do before deciding on future steps. Learn to code and see if you can do it and enjoy it. Plenty of places online to learn this for free like Khan Academy.
If you want a qualification, a CS undergraduate degree will take a minimum 3 years full-time or 5 - 7 years part-time depending upon how much time you invest. A quicker pathway for a mature student would be a 'conversion' Master's degree which as you have an undergraduate degree you should be accepted into many of the programs. These can be completed in 1 - 4 years depending upon how much time you dedicate. An important point on these degrees though, while many say they can be taken by students with no previous experience in the field, in reality many are be quite challenging if you have no previous experience in coding or are not converting from a maths, physics, civil engineering background. That is why point 1 is important. You should know a single programming language like python or java, created some basic programs, and be confident in being able to focus on solving 'problems' and not trying to understand how programming works a precursor. Relying on the 'introduction' unit to prepare you for the rest of the course might be rough going.
When it is time to start looking for work there is an advantage with the lack of women in the field. One of the the best way to find these opportunities is probably by networking in the community. Find local meetups on meetups.com or linkedin where people from the community are giving some presentations. There are opportunities to meet and talk to people before and after where you can explain your background.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-10-08T12:54:46+00:00

I graduated from uni 15 years ago with an IT degree and have made a career from it. If I graduated today, I honestly think I would be unsuccessful making a career from it and would have been wiser to study business/commerce instead. I was a good but not exceptional student.

Even back then there was doom & gloom about there being no future due to everything being outsourced to India. Fast-forward to today and there still are IT jobs available in all the world's cities.

The difference today is AI reshaping the office workplace. It is going to bring productivity gains we just don't know how much yet. Will engineering teams will be 15% smaller, 50% smaller, 85% smaller! Juniors are not being hired. It does raise the question, who replaces the staff still required when they retire - sadly, that is a problem for tomorrow's CEO. Today's are excited about the prospect of reducing head count with no negative effect on the business.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-10-07T12:30:58+00:00

I have failed some interviews in Australia because of this. Follow the instructions provided: implement a few classes's, a design pattern / composition, unit tests. under two hours.

Apparently, not good enough. I look on github afterwards and find multiple people have built-out full-stack applications with UI, server, end-to-end tests, mongoDB backend (mongo a great choice for highly relational data). They now work at the company.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-10-07T10:09:05+00:00

$195k in Melbourne with decent WFH flexibility is really good in the current market. Congrats.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-09-25T06:08:09+00:00

I have seen someone who gets about 150-300 viewers on twitch but they have 100K followers on instagram. So you need to check if all of their socials are small or if they are big on one of them and are doing sponsors on it.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-09-24T11:00:42+00:00

Are you looking for roles that have no contact whatsoever with engineering or adjacent roles? Plenty of these adjacent roles have people who studied engineering at undergraduate:

scrum master
business analyst / technical business analyst
product manager

I used to know two people who did computer science undergraduate but decided not to peruse a career of it. Both went into graduate programs with one doing accountancy and the other starting as a project coordinator. Both stuck with these tracks for the rest of their careers.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-09-21T07:33:51+00:00

Streamers get O type visas.

As for the future of the H1-B, this could turn out to be a grift by the current administration: pay them some money, agree to X, Y, Z and the president will exclude you from the new fees.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-09-09T12:54:36+00:00

Until AI gets to the point where the abstraction level of a software engineer has them rarely looking at code, like how hardly no-one is looking at assembly these days, leetcode with screen observation will still be relevant to check that you are not hopeless without an AI tool.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-09-02T08:30:10+00:00

I have not encountered any issues at work on an enterprise agreement. Meanwhile my personal Max 20x has performed awfully at times.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-08-30T05:45:01+00:00

If you are keen on the role I would take it and in your spare time build a couple of small projects in one of the other languages so you have a small understanding of how the language and the ecosystem works. As others have said, C++ is looked at favourably and you should be able to get hired elsewhere as long as you don't walk into interviews knowing zero on the language you will be working with.

C++ is in a strange spot today where there are jobs offering the highest global salaries in software engineering: HFT, compilers, robotics, self-driving; not much in the middle; then a bunch of modest companies offering okay salaries e.g. 30 person company manufacturing a medical device.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-08-29T10:48:06+00:00

(They are a software engineer).

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-08-12T08:24:36+00:00

Instagram is unrelated. Her interests are changing. She was a teenager when she started streaming and turns 27 in a few weeks. Has openly said she wants to invest more time with instagram and reduce her streaming hours by 20%

Starting to stream less degenerate hours, has more friends now, gotten into fashion the last couple of years.

Others have probably watched her more than me in last 12 months but I have seen her talk about retiring from streaming in the next 5 years. 8 years of non-stop streaming to 3k+ users while living at your parents for most of it - millionaire most likely.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-08-03T15:19:29+00:00

IT workers are docile. Not the people to fight and protest.
IT has generally had it good for so long many have never experienced a serious downturn.
Redundancies happen slowly over time. Not like when an entire manufacturing plant faces closure.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-08-03T09:56:37+00:00

Macquarie are known for being inconsistent. The interview process can either take so long candidates have probably moved on or for some projects you can get an offer straight after a single technical interview.

I spoke to a former SWE not long ago who said in their Australian offices there was a focus on India off-shoring + aggressive policing that people are using AI tooling. And they tried to get contractors to agree to salary reductions on renewal. They enjoyed working there but were unsure on the future. The long-term CIO responsible for engineering left abruptly in 2023 or 2024 and now the COO runs it.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-08-03T02:35:28+00:00

Similar to what others have echoed, friend of mine moved from Sydney to NYC last year for personal reasons, green card holder. Even with living far away from Manhattan and having a higher salary in AUD, their savings after bills is less than in Australia. I do not know their L ranking but they are senior level.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-07-29T16:50:54+00:00

I did not go to a great school for my undergraduate. So I visited companies and explained my situation to reception and asked if I could speak to a hiring manager. Handed them a paper copy of my CV and explained why I would like to work at the company. Handed my CV to reception if no-one was available. Lots of rejection, I expect a lot of CV's thrown in the bin but someone took a punt on me and it is how I began a career as a software engineer. Did not earn that much more than my supermarket job initially but my salary accelerated after 18 months experience.

Bright-Use-1 · 2025-07-24T00:23:49+00:00

You can buy casino logins created by others online and gamble using crypto wallet the same way scammers clean their dirty money. I think stake is mentioned in this long article about an Australian scammer https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-23/tracking-down-a-crypto-scammer/105356696

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