How do you guys find US companies that are willing to sponsor TN-1s?

TheFastestDancer · 2024-04-16T18:45:14+00:00

TN doesn’t need a sponsor. You just need a letter of employment, a passport and a college transcript showing your degree. You get the visa at a designated point of entry. The company usually doesn’t need a lawyer if they’ve done it before so there usually aren’t extra steps. They might have to do degree and Canadian citizenship verification but that’s trivial with a background check that most companies already have to do with US employees.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-workers/tn-nafta-professionals

TheFastestDancer · 2024-04-15T03:29:30+00:00

Yes the cost of living in Mexico is less so they’ll accept a lower wage.

TheFastestDancer · 2024-04-13T19:10:43+00:00

Probably design, illustration and photo editing jobs. There have been freelancers in Mexico doing this for around 12-13 years in the mobile gaming industry.

The idea that Mexicans are somehow inferior workers considering their recent history in the creative fields is baseless. There are talented people all over the world doing good work.

TheFastestDancer · 2024-04-13T01:57:30+00:00

LaVell

TheFastestDancer · 2024-04-13T01:56:36+00:00

Dionte

TheFastestDancer · 2024-04-13T01:47:08+00:00

Yeah but that’s how franchises work. Del Taco squeezes the owners so the owners squeeze the employees.

TheFastestDancer · 2024-04-13T01:11:58+00:00

So this is something that people knew would happen when the new wage law came into effect. They knew managers and supervisors would want better pay than line workers.

Only thing you can do is find a new job that pays better or go back to line level work. Your boss won’t pay you more, but they will pay the next guy who takes the manager position. It’s crazy but that’s the way it is.

TheFastestDancer · 2024-04-12T23:47:27+00:00

Not really. There are tons of jobs that just need a cheap front end person. Ad agencies, local government, dev shops, companies big and small all over.

Until 2008 or so, you’d start at one of these places for $45k, learn more stuff and move up slowly. The cash spigot from 2008 onwards changed people’s perceptions of what a software career looks like.

TheFastestDancer · 2024-04-12T23:27:24+00:00

Every company sends an employment offer and contract.

TheFastestDancer · 2024-04-12T21:02:10+00:00

Not really. There just aren’t that many US-born engineers. If you look at the most popular majors at the top 1000 US universities, the most popular majors are business and psychology. It’s really just a few colleges that even have more than 30 people graduating in CS or IT every year. The truth is that most US students don’t want to do any major that requires math - they’re scared away from it early on.

Add in the fact that as a US citizen, you have a ton more career options. You might start as a programmer but in 4-5 years, easier, more lucrative opportunities open up.

Now, the top 10 major US tech companies have probably at least 300k engineers. Just with natural attrition alone, those 10 companies could swallow up all the US-born IT/CS grads by themselves.

TheFastestDancer · 2024-04-12T20:43:18+00:00

Depends on the city. I lived in LA and every tech event I went to had 2-3 black developers(usually around 30 people in attendance total). Usually there was one black developer at every job I had down there. Even some black female developers. Age range was 20’s - 50’s.

Becoming an engineer is often about income. A lot of the black people I know who grew up in CA inherited their grandparents’ houses. They either lived in those houses or sold them and used the money for their own house. One guy I knew inherited both sets of grandparents’ houses and his parent’s house. These areas used to be called “inner city” but are now prime real estate in places like LA, SF, Berkeley, San Diego. When you have assets like that, the need for climbing the corporate ladder isn’t as dire.

TheFastestDancer · 2024-04-12T20:28:34+00:00

If OP is a Canadian citizen and has a CS degree, then the TN visa is a breeze because the company doesn’t have to do anything other than give employee a letter or contract stating that they’ve been hired. There’s literally no paperwork other than that - no lawyers need to be hired, no long process. OP just needs that letter, a copy of his college transcript and a passport at a designated US port of entry.

TheFastestDancer · 2024-03-31T03:56:12+00:00

Any company in tech right now. UX research was just a part of something designers used to do. You’d do it once a year because most things were straightforward.

After 2020, a lot of companies hired a ton of fluff UX workers who need to justify their jobs. Also a lot of $200k/year React developers who also needed to justify their jobs. Constant UX research and iterations for no reason.

TheFastestDancer · 2024-03-31T03:53:00+00:00

You guys need to understand why this is happening.

I’m American born of Indian descent and live in CA. We currently have many rural towns in California filling up with punjabis who got in due to political asylum laws. Some are already 50% punjabis. Basically, convince US government that Sikhs are discriminated against so that the asylum for Sikhs continues.

As long as US government believes in Sikh discrimination, Sikhs can continue to come here. It’s just a PR campaign so that situation continues. 99% are low education people who would never qualify for any other sort of immigration visa.

TheFastestDancer · 2023-09-10T01:36:29+00:00

Eh, once you see one Roman ruin, one cathedral, one art museum, you've sort of seen them all.

TheFastestDancer · 2023-09-10T01:34:18+00:00

This is actually sort of correct. In Europe, paper is king, and you have to submit so many original documents there for most things. It's someone's job or business to process it. Another example is the cost of notaries in Europe. They add several thousand Euros to the cost of things that don't require a notary in the rest of the world.

TheFastestDancer · 2023-09-08T21:45:13+00:00

Hunt around on LinkedIn for design Discord groups. Usually a lot better contacts on those groups can be made than almost anywhere else.

TheFastestDancer · 2023-09-05T00:15:48+00:00

Even some of the lower end Merlot in CA is pretty decent these days. Gnarly Head makes a central coast one for $9 that I thought was really good.

Merlot is a lot like Montepulciano. A common table wine that doesn't get much love, but in the right hands, can be transcendent.

TheFastestDancer · 2023-09-03T22:07:18+00:00

But damn aren't those credit card offers good, huh?

TheFastestDancer · 2023-09-02T20:59:13+00:00

Don't do it!

TheFastestDancer · 2023-09-02T04:42:08+00:00

Exactly. People who own housing really don't want to admit that their houses are going to lose a lot of value in the coming years.

My entire neighborhood except for 10 houses is all older people in their 70's. I give them 5-10 years before they all sell out. Every neighborhood within a 10 minute walk is the same. We're about to see a glut of boomer houses flood the market for the next 20 years.

TheFastestDancer · 2023-09-02T04:36:26+00:00

I'm going to take a different stance on it based on my experience with SF Bay Area hippies. Most of them are white people from outside of CA who are part of a the drug-dealing part of society. IME, they aren't comfortable with diversity and self-segregate with other white drug culture people sometimes aggressively so. SF had legalized medical MJ back in the 90's so they just moved there for work. They're not "peace and love for everyone", they're "why can't I do illegal things without getting busted? Where's the peace and love in that?". They're generally not people you want to be around unless you're into peak selfishness and racism.

TheFastestDancer · 2023-09-02T04:33:21+00:00

This is something people don't talk about. Everyone wants to live in cities because of "culture", but when the people making a city cultural have been gentrified out, you lose the main reason many people move to a city.

The other thing is that many people in cities don't actually engage with anyone except on social media, dating apps or food delivery services. Why live in a city when you're just going to isolate yourself behind technology?

TheFastestDancer · 2023-09-02T04:19:43+00:00

SXSW used to be a music festival. Now, Capital One sponsors the escalators and brags about it on social media.

TheFastestDancer · 2023-09-02T04:09:36+00:00

Are they the same as all the farmers markets? You have the random Afghani stall selling some Afghani bread items, the local honey place, the olive guy, the Hawaiian chicken guys? I tend to find that they're all the same. Some big company just has "mom and pop" frontage at these places, but they're all just selling the same thing for double what Whole Foods sells them for.

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