How Aussie Techies Can Get a Job In Silicon Valley
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Have you ever been curious about working in Silicon Valley? Get the lowdown from an Australian who spent 4 years working in the SF Bay area. Find out if you're qualified for the Australian-only E-3 visa, how to avoid the biggest mistakes that Aussies make when trying to move, and the easiest path to putting 'Silicon Valley startup experience' on your own resume. Delivered at the Pivotal Labs Sydney meetup on 1st May 2018. Meetup event at https://www.meetup.com/PivotalSydney-Tech-Talks/events/250151752/ Website talk link at http://david-soul.com/talks/how-to-land-a-job-in-the-usa-labs-talk/
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How Aussie Techies Can Get a Job In Silicon Valley
- 1. From Silicon Beach to Silicon Valley How to Get a Job in the USA David Soul
- 2. Product & Growth Expert Technology services for growing startups: ● Customer tracking infrastructure ● Onboarding and retention ● Conversion rate optimisation ● Data-driven product management Two-Time CofounderEarly Employee http://david-soul.com David HELLO MY NAME IS
- 3. Four Years In San Francisco Growth Marketer/Engineer Product & Growth Product Manager, Monetization
- 4. Why Put Silicon Valley Experience On Your Resume?
- 6. Career Accelerant Live 5+ Years in the Future 325M Americans vs 24M Australians US $14B startup funding vs AU $0.5B annually
- 7. $105K Sydney Average Salaries Are AUD $71K Higher $176K SF Bay Area
- 8. Short Employee Tenure Uber: 1.2 years Airbnb: 1.6 years Facebook: 2 years Expensive SF Rent Not For The Faint-Hearted Visa Tied To Employer
- 9. The Top 10 Most Expensive Mistakes Aussies Make Trying To Move to Silicon Valley Most serious Aussie job hunters make the leap to the US just fine. But this talk isn’t about them.
- 10. #10 Meet the E-3 Requirements
- 11. E-3 Spot Check
- 12. 1. Work In Tech 2. Highly Technical Role 3. In-Demand 4. Aussie Citizenship 5. Relevant Degree E-3 Fast Track
- 13. Why Is The E-3 Visa So Good? E-3 Visa H1-B Visa Eligibility Australians Everyone Validity 2 years, infinitely renewable 3-6 years, limited extensions Availability No lottery: 6,127 used / 10,500 available 36% lottery success: 233K applications / 85K available Approval Time ~2 weeks, start anytime 3-6 months, lottery intake annually in April Spouse Can Work Yes No
- 14. So You Get Over There, What Next? During 2003-2013, 850K Australians went abroad (to any country) for a stay of at least one year, while 1.1M returned. Stay (E-3, H1-B or Marriage) Boomerang Back (And Start A Startup!) ~20,000 Australians living in the Bay Area
- 15. #9 Have A Website
- 16. #8 Demonstrate An Area of Expertise
- 17. #7 Job Hunt Systematically Plan: Career Plan Example Jobs Job Spreadsheet Contact List Network: Aussie Mafia Facebook & LinkedIn Groups Research: Product Hunt TechCrunch Funding Rounds One-Page Resume: Achievement-Focused
- 18. Internal Employee Referral: High-Effort Personalised Application: Generic Job Application: #6 Build Your Network $$$
- 19. Founded: 2013 Raised: $73M Valuation: $400M Closed: 2017 #5 Beware Overcapitalised Startups Founded: 2013 Raised: $1B Valuation: $3B Closed: 2017
- 20. #4 Find The Right Company Stage For You
- 21. FAMGA Total Employees: Facebook 17K Apple 115K Microsoft 120K Google 57K Amazon 341K “We can’t sponsor people yet” “What’s an E-3 visa?” “Let’s chat once you’ve moved” “We can’t afford relocation” “Maybe after our next raise” Tech GiantsTeensy Startups
- 22. High-growth vs Risky startup vs Pre IPO options vs work/life balance safer corporate Post IPO stock
- 23. #3 You Have To Book A Trip 1 Week Trip: ~$3k 2 Week Trip: ~$4k Employer-Paid Trip: Free
- 24. AirBnb rooms are $900-$1,500/week Expect 1-3 months from contact to offer Up to 4 rounds of interviews Spend 1-2 months applying remotely Set a concrete visit window “I’m arriving in July for interviews” Ask them to cover expenses #2 Plan Your Trip Around Interviews
- 25. #1 Be Technical
- 26. Corporate Marketer: Growth Marketer: Growth Engineer: No Maybe Yes
- 27. Want Advice? Email or Coffee david@david-soul.com
- 28. Seeking a first batch of top developers and data scientists for an E-3 hiring program. 1. Match developers with startups 2. Private and free for qualified candidates 3. Interested companies contact you 4. Whitelist of E-3 ready roles 5. Interview with multiple companies 6. Cover flight, visa, relocation expenses E-3 Hiring Program
Notas do Editor
- If you’ve ever been curious about working in the US, or the Australian-only E-3 visa, this is the talk for you. It’s primarily focused on software engineers who will have the easiest time, but there should be something for everyone.
- Who and I why do I know about working in the US? I do product and growth. I started off as a Java developer, helped scale Atlassian’s sales processes back in the early days, and have launched a digital healthcare startup and a web agency.
- I spend 4 years working in the USA - felt Like 8 working for some amazing companies. I got back last year and was surprised at how few people are making the jump. The picture is actually everything I owned making the move!
- From weekly hackathons to Burning Man, $400 return flights to New Orleans, I don’t have to sell you on the life experiences.
- US startups and technologies can take 5+ years to reach Australia. There are experimental startups you’ll see nowhere else. Because the population is 300 million, a startup can be one tenth as successful and still make it. It’s also a testbed for experimental technologies. I remember when I saw my first self-driving car near the Golden Gate bridge. Unfortunately, the future of transportation was stuck in traffic. For example, I was using UberPool since 2014, but it’s just arrived in Sydney this year. On the technology side, Docker has gotten really big here. In the US at certain web hosting companies, you could have experience deploying containers to production back in 2008.
- According to Hired, salaries are $71K AUD higher in the bay area than Sydney. That’s 71,000 reasons to move. And the total package for senior engineers at companies like Netflix can approach $250K USD.
- It’s the Wild West. Fast-Moving Environments Require Constant Planning Plenty of people settle down for 4-5 years, but according to Paysa ‘Tech Tenure’, the average employee tenure is often only 1 or 2 years. https://www.paysa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DisruptorsA8.png It’s like watching herds of wildebeast roaming across the savanna in search of their next meal. “Here we see a pack of young Android developers, feasting on the first IPO grant of the season. Truly, a time, for celebration’
- 95% of people, like me, who were qualified and serious enough to get on the ground over there, make a smooth jump to the US and had an awesome time. This talk isn’t about them. Let’s talk about the top 10 mistakes I’ve personally seen people make trying to move to Silicon Valley, and how to avoid them. I hope the people here can avoid their mistakes and make new ones instead. Names changed to protect the innocent.
- Stand up. Are you in tech in a technical role like as a developer, engineer, data scientist? In demand, 3 years experience or more? Are you an Australian citizen, or you’re going through the process? They just love those passports with the emu on them. can probably just draw an emu on your passport, but I wouldn’t risk it. Relevant degree or 12 years experience. Boom, you’re on the shortlist.
- There are workarounds for every point here, especially if you’re an industry hotshot with a visa lawyer. But if you meet all these requirements, then you’re qualified for the E-3, and the only thing stopping you from going, is you. This talk is mostly for people who meet these criteria, but there are alternatives. You could transfer internally with a big company on an L1, you could marry an American, you could do standard a H1-B.
- Why is it so good? Well, I thought Americans just gave us the E-3 because they loved that our passports have emus on the front, but apparently it’s a trade treaty, which means it’s quite a bit harder to break. And unlike the H1-B, which is getting all the press on account of after a recent crackdown, our E-3 visa is flying under the radar quite nicely for now. Americans and Aussies have a good relationship right now, though no guarantees. I’m not a lawyer. The H-1B is very constrained. I had an Indian friend who came over to study in the US and bet all her chips on staying with a H-1B. She didn’t win the H1-B lottery, and as a result, even though her company wanted to sponsor her, she had to spend over a year working in Asia before she could come back. She did make it back though.
- I think the Aussie tech scene has been a bit scared of the E-3 visa. They think they’ll lose their best talent to Silicon Valley. Some people will stay, but I think sending more people over is the best thing we can do to build the Australian tech scene. We need more boomerangs, people like me who came back to settle down. If you’re a developer who wants to do your own startup, but you don’t have an idea, nothing will help you level up faster than working in the USA. Learn from the hottest startups in the world, come back with fresh skills, and fresh eyes for taking advantage of all the market gaps here.
- Establish an area of strong technical expertise and make that your story. If you’re a devops engineer, you only need a few articles on how to setup, say automated CVE scanning in Kubernetes.
- Personal network is huge. Every tech company has a secret Slack or Facebook group with ex-employees, all keeping in touch. You can easily recruit. The startup pool is much larger, there are literally thousands of startups all competing for talent. A lot of the best option grants and career opportunities come from joining a startup that is currently flying under the radar. Plus, it’s also important to always have a backup plan, in case your current company...
- Looks like it might go bust. Which brings me to the surprising failure rate of funded startups. One my friends was a product manager for Jawbone, which raised over a billion dollars of funding. If you can learn how to read their business fundamentals, you will save yourself a world of pain. On the other hand, the super-successful Docker was a pivot, escaping just in time, from an platform as a service startup called DotCloud. Which brings me to my next piece of advice.
- Sad to see great developers go over an just become the 10,000th employee of a huge tech company, just because the interview process was easier, especially when there are so many exciting small startups.
- Choose wisely. I had really talented developer friend work crazy hours for more than a year, then burnt out and sadly disappeared back home. It can be mentally expensive as well as financially.
- All these tire kickers who talk about moving over, you can do Skype interviews remotely, but you’d only going to land a great job offer in person. I don’t care about these niche remote roles, you gotta get on the ground. Hiring is very selective so people want to know that you can do the work. But choose wisely. Fly over for one company and you only have one shot, unless you wanna interview elsewhere at the same time.
- San Francisco can bleed you dry. Big mistake, I’ve seen good developers arrive for two weeks with no connections or interviews lined up, expecting a job. Easy way to waste $3 grand.
- Silicon Valley is has a safe corporate tech world with companies like Oracle and Microsoft, but also this giant startup scene which is a crazy wild west of opportunities. If you’re building software in the Bay area, you’re insulated from the vagaries of the market. One of my finance industry friends, who will remain anonymous, went over under the visa waiver program and spent a lot of time in New York trying to get a job there. They came back empty handed because even though they could get job offers, no one would go the extra distance to sponsor their visa.
- Allow me to illustrate with marketing. Engineers rule the valley. We’re even seeing this in the product management field, with the emergence of product engineers, who don’t just manage the product backlog, they also code at a junior level, so they can create prototypes and experiments. If you can’t code, it might be time to learn.
- Reach out if you like, I’d happy to pay it forward.
- This is a really new project, basically jump-started by the level of interest I’ve had kicking off this talk. I’m looking for really excellent techies who want to work at one of the great startup teams that I know personally from my SF network. If I can get enough top devs together, we can actually have everyone interviewing as a batch, in an E-3 hiring program. This is the program I would have joined if it had existed when I went, instead of going over the hard way. So if you’re serious about moving, or know someone who is, then get in touch. It’s based on your interest, so we can just meet for a coffee and I can pay it forward for you to go over your own way. I’m kicking off some recruiting as of now and should be able to make it totally free for candidates, so if you’re serious about making the leap this will bring startups to you. I’ll keep people posted if it reaches critical mass.
- Questions?