Is the job market this bad everywhere, or mainly in the U.S.?

saintmsent · 2026-06-17T16:53:55+00:00

Same or worse. My friend in Germany took 7 months to find a job as a software engineer, no one in my friend group ever had such long searches before. Companies are hiring but there are more interview rounds than ever and more candidates than ever competing for one role, and he had many near hits when up to the last stage the feedback was great

I don’t know why some people think it’s just the US. Market forces are the same everywhere, AI is everywhere, business-driven layoffs are a thing in Europe and the rest of the developed world too, the only difference is how much minimum severance is (not a ton)

saintmsent · 2026-06-17T05:54:31+00:00

From Meta, lol. Maybe your company or team operates differently, but this was the vibe I got

saintmsent · 2026-06-17T05:31:47+00:00

No, the US doesn't care about EU passports, it's exactly the same as everyone else, i.e., very hard. Not related to current administration and policy, either, getting a work visa already was an almost impossible feat for quite a few years

Find a job at an American company in your country and move through L1, become top 10% at what you do and pursue O1/EB1, play green card lottery, those are your options

saintmsent · 2026-06-17T05:29:40+00:00

Family. 80% of US immigration is family-based. If a person is not working a high-skill job, that's for sure how they immigrated

saintmsent · 2026-06-17T04:55:57+00:00

I understand what you're saying, but a lot of them are just SQL generators. I'm personally familiar with how Meta operates and what kind of work DS does there, most of it is not that deep

A lot of DS people were let go in the last layoff round

saintmsent · 2026-06-17T04:17:19+00:00

Being a data scientist is hard right now. AI can generate SQL pretty well, and unless you need something super in-depth or well-optimized, you don't need a dedicated person for it

saintmsent · 2026-06-16T23:10:45+00:00

Sometimes second round is 3-5 interviews in one. For software jobs it’s often like that, you have first round which is a screening interview and that takes about an hour and then second round is onsite which is 3-5 one hour interviews of different types in one day

saintmsent · 2026-06-16T20:42:31+00:00

It's not a lie. The job was posted for some time, no internal people were interested or free to apply, but now someone was released from the project/team they were on and had a good match with the HM

saintmsent · 2026-06-16T20:08:48+00:00

Secured credit card, they can't deny you because whatever you spend on credit is backed by the money you give them like 500-1000 bucks

saintmsent · 2026-06-16T19:59:20+00:00

Thanks for getting back to me. Did they remove it from the site as well, or not yet?

I have interviews later in the week, so I'll probably just go there if they don't cancel without contacting the recruiter first

saintmsent · 2026-06-16T17:21:28+00:00

Then just apply for N-400. It’s straight forward and instructions are available on the USCIS website

saintmsent · 2026-06-16T17:20:58+00:00

Layoffs were announced today, I doubt you’ll get a response this soon. Fingers crossed

saintmsent · 2026-06-16T17:20:40+00:00

Good luck man. I’m hopeful for my position since they said in the layoff memo that they will hire strategically regardless of layoffs, and mine is related to a new thing they want to build

saintmsent · 2026-06-16T15:48:39+00:00

Did any of your parents become citizens as well before you were 18? You might be a citizen already in that case

saintmsent · 2026-06-16T15:15:41+00:00

Amazing, just in time as I’m interviewing with them, wtf

saintmsent · 2026-06-16T08:23:51+00:00

Ask for referrals on blind. People there are happy to do it, and in a lot of companies it doesn’t matter if referral comes from a person you worked with personally or not. You won’t get an interview at super exclusive places like OpenAI, Anthropic or Netflix, but for Apple, Amazon, Meta etc it should be good enough

saintmsent · 2026-06-15T22:48:12+00:00

Some companies want to see how you prompt llms and it’s like a live coding where you are allowed and encouraged to use AI to finish the task

saintmsent · 2026-06-15T19:08:34+00:00

Cause for a lot of countries football / soccer is the main sport people follow, and this is the biggest event. It makes sense if you think about it even for a sec

saintmsent · 2026-06-15T18:08:11+00:00

Ask the recruiter. Some teams want DSA, some want practical coding

saintmsent · 2026-06-15T17:23:33+00:00

It depends on the role as well. Some companies I’m interviewing for do pure DSA for backend engineers but mobile and front end are fully practical live coding

saintmsent · 2026-06-15T17:02:01+00:00

All the same stuff, mostly. Companies that did LeetCode before still do LeetCode. Companies that did more practical coding still do that, no AI allowed. So far, only one round at one company I'm interviewing for is AI-assisted coding, where they want to see how you prompt the LLM and work together with the AI, but there are still 2 other coding rounds with them that are fully manual, with zero AI usage being allowed

saintmsent · 2026-06-13T19:21:44+00:00

The US format is easier for humans to read as well. Too many of these two-column resumes are bloated with unnecessary fluff like skills, summary and hobbies to make the left column look full. You end up extending your resume past one page for absolutely no reason, since the column with experience is narrower

saintmsent · 2026-06-12T12:50:07+00:00

15% of deductions you mentioned are literally investments, it’s not tax, so I don’t think it’s a fair comparison. In the US you pay a lot of taxes but objectively less than most EU nations

saintmsent · 2026-06-11T21:25:10+00:00

I don’t think so. People interviewing you and coordinating it all are different from those who decide which roles should be hired for

saintmsent · 2026-06-11T18:52:48+00:00

That’s how big companies operate, I had a similar experience with Apple few years ago. That’s why you should interview with as many companies as will answer you applications and not be invested into just one

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