TL;DR; A .NET developer shares their experience of being approached by Microsoft for a potential job, highlighting the challenges of US work visa requirements in the tech industry.
The biggest vindication of your .Net developer status would be if Microsoft wanted to employ you! And it happened to me…
I recently blogged about maybe being interested in a career change , and Siddharth Bhatia , a Group Program Manager from Microsoft posted a comment asking to get in touch.
We had a lengthy conversation that ended in him asking if I would be interested in a position in Redmond. I should note that he did not at any time offer me a position as there is a lengthy process at Microsoft to get to that stage.
Obviously I said yes and he got one of his development managers, Scot Gellock , to email me and go through the preliminary’s. This is where we ran into a problem…a Visa problem.
As I understand it, I would require a H1B vista to work in the US. These are in limited supply, start only on 1st September and it it too late to apply…
I am not giving up on this, but there are few other options…
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