!process h1b selected 😘

[stone tapir]

Nice what level

[turbid charm]

Lv 1

[tacit grove]

gimme ur h4

so now u get perm?

[turbid charm]

Lol i dont know when my perm will start, the pending queue is long

[tacit grove]

wow

[turbid charm]

You working at intuit now , bro ?

[tacit grove]

msft?

[turbid charm]

Yes

Damn free food ?

[tacit grove]

nah paid

😭

[turbid charm]

But it is cool bro :))

Damn really ?

Omg so cheap

[tacit grove]

yea

oh sorry with fries it was 5.4

[turbid charm]

Still cheap

I paid 10-15 for lunch every day

😢

[stone tapir]

free breakfast & lunch + l2 wage level still no h1b

im ngmi

[turbid charm]

🙁 which comp

You will be selected next time bro

[stone tapir]

.

[urban dune]

Msft is level 1? How??

[turbid charm]

Swe 1 is level 1, level 2 is 13x+

[urban dune]

Is that universal in faang too?

I think if you make the same salary as swe 1 at Seattle in virginia you get level 2 no?

[turbid charm]

i think base of other faangs is higher

[urban dune]

I’m remote so my tax residency is virginia

[turbid charm]

I am in seattle

[urban dune]

127k?

[turbid charm]

Yes

[urban dune]

Yeah me too

[turbid charm]

You lv2 ?

[urban dune]

I’m not in H1B they said they will enter me in 2027

I’m graduating May 2026 starting jul 2026

[turbid charm]

I dont know but 127 in seattle is lv1

[urban dune]

Congrats bro I heard msft is like one of the easiest ways to get perm

That’s the next step

[turbid charm]

Nah

[urban dune]

Hope you’re not from a country where a lot of people are applying

For green card

[turbid charm]

They are processing pending queue

And hope it will not have layoff

[urban dune]

Oh boy

[turbid charm]

Because perm will pause 6 month after layoff wave

[urban dune]

Yeah

[turbid charm]

So my friend worked there in 2022

[urban dune]

So we waiting for a layoff then 😭

[turbid charm]

She has not processed

[urban dune]

Is she from India or China?

[turbid charm]

China

[urban dune]

Yeah bro

Perm process from a big country cooked

[turbid charm]

Oh that is the reason ?

Got it

[urban dune]

Yeah

Where are you from

[turbid charm]

:)) i am from small country

[urban dune]

Nice

[turbid charm]

Vietnam

[urban dune]

Me too

Not Vietnam

[turbid charm]

Oh :))

[urban dune]

I’m from a smaller country lol

[turbid charm]

Hope it will be quick

Anw remote role is good

[urban dune]

Well if they’re pending processing doesn’t matter

[turbid charm]

I prefer remote than 3 days per week

[urban dune]

Yes remote is great although I have no friends

And won’t be able to make any

All my friends are non swe

[turbid charm]

You mean friend in company ?

[urban dune]

I’m hoping to get Google tm

[turbid charm]

Good luck

gg might be better

[urban dune]

I just want software engineer friends I can hang out with bro 😭😭

[turbid charm]

Move to other city :))

[urban dune]

Yeah but Google is edging me they moved me to hiring committee but I’ve been stuck there

[urban dune]

SF too expensive also I wanna try to get level 2 instead of level 1 for H1B

It’s fine

[stone tapir]

google philly is cheat code for h1b

easy level 4

[tacit grove]

where?

[tacit grove]

i pay like 3-6 dollars for lunch everyday 😭

[tacit grove]

ye

[tacit grove]

get gc directly

skip the h1

palo alto?

[stone tapir]

considered part of boston for wage level

[tacit grove]

oh that’s y u level2

[stone tapir]

ye

[stone tapir]

i heard its hard now even for ROW

cuz of slow processing times

[tacit grove]

yeah

[stone tapir]

and also LMT can easily fail because of people applying to the job ad

[tacit grove]

lmt?

[stone tapir]

labor market test

like the part where they put out ads in newspaper

if too many qualified people apply to it, you cannot even file the PERM with uscis

[tacit grove]

wtf

[urban dune]

Lool if you find a team then yeah

[urban dune]

Even tho I’m from a really small country trump made it impossible to get gc fast nowadays

[tacit grove]

get married

[urban dune]

My gf is Chinese