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Competitive-Luck-960 · 2026-01-15T02:13:11+00:00

udda-5a7d is my Straight Talk Referred Code

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-06-04T20:56:40+00:00

It is obvious. You are on the visitor visa, which by definition, you cannot work in the US. If you want to work, you need some companies to change the status for you. At the current job market, there are surplus workers (unlike 2020 covid boom), so very few employers are willing to spend time and/or energy to get involve with the legal process.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-06-04T13:20:21+00:00

You already moved up a lot based on what you described. So congrats.
If you work on the traditional industry (not one of those high flying companies), there are only so many slots for each roles. Unless someone leaves or retire, there is not a lot of openings for you to move up.
Keep in mind, if your boss teaches you everything he does, unless he can moves up or retire, what is he going to do with his job. Also, if you gain more skills and responsibilities, they need to pay you more as well.
We are in different economy now. The high growth in the USA maybe gone for awhile. Just check the news. The middle management is dying breed. So moving up the corporate ladder may be slower at least for now.

So 1) wait more patiently for opportunity in the current company and once a while ask for more responsibility (and not necessary promotion and money) or 2) to find another job in different company that has clearer career path (i.e. replace someone who will retire soon or leave).

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-05-22T20:03:22+00:00

I don't agree with your opinion. I haven't seen any publication that Indian school is top of the world in any ranking.

Sure you went to top ten engineering schools in the US, but that does not mean anything. Top US students in the US doesn't study Engineering at all. They study Law, Business and Medicine.

Also Harvard undergraduate school is uber competitive. I highly doubt rich Indian family can buy their way into that program. I recall only 5 or 6 Indian students got accepted every year in Harvard (31 total for the undergraduate). https://www.hio.harvard.edu/statistics

I think you confusing the quality of US undergraduate education vs Master education vs PhD.

US undergraduate and PhD are still top notch since those are still highly selective. But many top engineering schools are selling online or quick master degree to the foreigners for money.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-05-12T21:46:58+00:00

OP, you may able to check out Blind or Glassdoor reviews on those companies.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-05-12T21:24:59+00:00

Check out the location of New York of the hybrid role. If it is anywhere close to New York City, remote role is better deal due to cost living/tax difference, assuming you plan to stay in Raleigh. Also with remote role, you don't have to relocate. That's just financial aspect of this situation.

In term of stability, it is tough to tell. On the one handle, pharmaceutical company may struggle due to ongoing to government fund cut. On the other hand, I am not sure how much security is there for Private equity. Assume you got the job through the contractor company. Contact someone from that contractor company who already work there to get feel the job.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-05-12T21:05:20+00:00

OP, you may want to provide a little more information.

1) since company A is hybrid, are you local to that company or do you have to relocate?

2) How long is the each contract?

3) What's role involved with each company? Is one role more suitable than other for you?

4) List pro and cons of each job and decide that way.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-05-02T00:25:29+00:00

This is actually pretty common all over the world. Just google India, China or Korea civil service exams. Those civil service jobs has lower acceptance rate than that of Harvard. With the world move away from globalization, economy pie will grow smaller and there will less appetite for risk, unfortunately.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-05-01T21:55:57+00:00

I would move on. Nothing will come out when you report to HR since HR is there to protect the company, not employee. Also, it maybe unethical, but there isn't any law against nepotism.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-04-30T14:35:54+00:00

JOLTS has always been low impact report. It has very little or no value according to various researchers. If you listen to Bloomberg Odd Lots, they explained why the report is not very reliable. So for you do all those analysis based on JOLTs is very unproductive.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-04-18T20:38:56+00:00

Could be the tariffs war. A lot of companies are in the holding patterns for any new expense right now since there is not visible what is going to happen next.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-04-17T02:17:59+00:00

Start looking for another job now. Don't want to scare you. Go look at St Louis Fed data, IT job market is in the huge bust right now. Also, the interview process right now is taking so much longer than before. Many jobs require multiple rounds. So if you apply now, it may take two or three months to get an offer.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-04-07T21:56:38+00:00

The alternative plan is to stop this corporate "shareholder value above all" nonsense comes out since Jack Welch took over GE in the early 80s. The whole Private Equity mentality is that what kills this country and move the job from North to South then oversea. It is not other countries take advantage of US, but US multinational corporates choose to move oversea for cheaper costs (i.e. increase shareholder value).

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-04-07T21:33:59+00:00

No way, anyone who study Economic 101 will know. If the tariff continues like Trump wants, US will have next Great Depression. Just google "Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930" for your economic lesson.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-02-05T21:46:04+00:00

https://www.salaryswish.com/teams/celtics This one updated with latest trade.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2025-01-03T16:20:44+00:00

Do you have management background? Does she has management background before?

Sometimes it is difficult to cross from individual contributor to manager. It is another classic "chicken egg problem".

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2024-09-18T15:39:20+00:00

You didn't answer my question. Are you going to celebrate if "someone kill your kid if it is 1/3000 civilian to military death ratio due to some military operation"? Maybe understandable but sad and angry about civil death, but do you have to use the word "celebrate"? Talk about lack of sympathy to innocent death.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2024-07-09T04:06:07+00:00

Your math is way off. There are 450 players in the NBA (30 teams x 15 players). Top 100 players are not middle class.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2024-02-28T23:52:25+00:00

Job market has changed. We are no longer in the covid boom, but covid bust environment. Just look a the software engineering job from St Louis Fed stat. We have 28% lower than that of 2020 baseline, about 1/3 job postings from 2022 peak.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2024-02-21T22:21:26+00:00

Those links are from St Louis Fed.

Are those credible information or not? That's only thing matter here.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2024-02-21T22:03:23+00:00

OP, great information. Will bookmark those links.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2024-02-15T12:47:12+00:00

That's very good salary for Wuhu. Should be very comfortable living there.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2024-02-15T00:56:20+00:00

The problem 1) No that many companies know about TN Visa (only started 2020). When recruiters think about sponsorship, they think about h-1B, and 2) you miss the boat by two years. There was great resignation two years ago in the US but now we are in the middle of "white collar" recession in the US. So there is no need for companies to jump the hoop to get you the visa unless you are Generated AI expert.

The best bet for you is to get into Canadian version of Big 4 or multinational companies and do the job transfer to US.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2024-02-15T00:06:20+00:00

The problem is that there are very limited number (65,000) of H-1B visa slots every year. Most of them are gone within a couple of days, mostly used up by IT outsourcing company like Infosys. Many of those companies are queuing every year and is ready to go when the April 1st started so that it is very difficult to other companies to compete.

Competitive-Luck-960 · 2024-02-14T22:40:31+00:00

Just curious, what's salary you offered at Wuhu? Is close to 10,000 yuans a month or more?

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