I wish you all the luck. I'm sure whatever you do will
be successful.
I'm always looking for great developers so if you fancy
living in Calgary for awhile ping me.
Would you consider moving to Belgium? :-) The best of
luck and may all the fun stuff cross your path.
How about getting a degree then? ;)
Eran: I find that I get much more satisfaction from
actually doing the things instead of theoretically
learning about them. For me, starting to work on
computers *instead* of doing a degree put me 3 years
ahead with experience.
I really don't miss the degree that much.
another things: 12 years experience==degree for visa, as
far as I hear.
Under "Go abroad and live there for a year or two" you
obviously mean "Go to the US on H1b visa".
You probably familiar that 90% of H1b folks end up
staying in the US permanently :-)
I'm one of such folks BTW :-)
Unfortunately it's not easy to get H1b. There are H1b
quotes.
BTW, what salary are you looking for?
Would you share your start up idea?
I just noticed that you don't have a degree ...
Do you mean that you don't even have BS (4 years in
college)?
That really hurts your chances of getting H1b...
You may consider getting student visa and get college
degree.
If you don't like the idea of getting to college -- you
should seriously consider running your own business
(startup).
Dennis: US is not the only place in the world that's
great to live in. Also, H1b is not the only kind of
VISA.
Yes, I'm aware that no degree hurts my chances. That's
why I'm saying this up front. Saves a lot of time in
phone calls later..
Opening my own startup: did I mention that was one of
the possibilities?
And no, you won't get a price quote from me, mainly
because money isn't the most important thing here.
Roy
1) What are the most important criteria in case if you
are looking for job in the US?
2) H1b is obviously not the only visa. I mentioned
student visa as well. There is also business visa and
more ...
3) Yes, you mentioned startup, but you didn't describe
the idea behind it yet.
Well, the idea for the startup is..
Wait. Maybe I shouldn't like, tell it to the world
Because then the idea could be,um, used by someone else
before I use it. Almost got me there :)
I know you've been to Norway before. Want to come again?
We're an agile team with great potential! :) If you
would like to do some consulting for us, especially
around TDD, we would love to have you! We're also
looking for new people, so who knows, maybe you even
want to be part of our team...
Roy, good luck. But what's going on? Everyone leave
Israel (you are forth a row)? What's up?
I read a post here on weblogs about even the mighty MS
legal dept not being able to land a talented software
engineer (who was living in Canada at the time) because
he had no degree and all the visa issues. That said with
recent developments at ms, who knows ;-)
Roy said
"Be a CTO in some company that would pay me well and let
me do my own thing after hours (yes I have a big ego,
but an offer like this is on the table..)"
If you want to do that do not come to the USA.
Most companies do not like it. If you have an idea that
has nothing to do with the company on a sunday afternoon
on your toilet seat.
It does not belong to you, it belong to the company. The
agreement that you signed said so.
If you do want to sign the agreemment, you do not get
the job.
Would love to have you with Enesys.
However, if you do not speak at least some French you
may have hard time here.
Not even mentionning the difficulties for obtaining some
visa.
Anyway, I wish you the best.