I have been struggling to land into a job in the embedded systems industry after graduating from my Master's program in Computer Science for almost over 6 months. Prior to attending my school I had 4 years of experience in working as embedded developer in Europe and India. I have been sending out resumes and whenever I get a pre-screening call - the only question they ask is do you have US experience - now honestly speaking I believe experience is an experience whether you do it in Australia or USA - 90% of my applications have been rejected just because I am not a "good-fit" with regard to not having worked in US. While in my grad program I tried applying for internships in the similar field - the recruiters did the same scenario there - do you have any US experience ? - Internships are supposed to shape juniors and give them experience such that they can fit into good roles - but if the recruitment sector rejects intern candidates as well where can a person get "US experience" then !! The weird dichotomy is on one hand there is a rejection based on "not having US experience for jobs" and on the other hand "not having US experience for internships" !
Rahul, I am sorry to hear the changes that you are going through with you education. I do not know where you live or why you chose to go to Europe and India without doing a serious job search for your future. I maybe wrong for saying what I am about to say. firstly, you sound very young in age and I believe you chose the 2 areas exploring other places to live and learn at the same time not thinking where you would want to settle down with your career. I know you do not want to hear this you may have to volunteer your services for a while in the USA industry.before you may land a job because the USA sees you as inexperienced in the way we do things. Yes, we all are capable of learning so now you have to reeducate yourself how the USA does things.. While volunteering your services and you are doing a great job meanwhile the company has the opportunity to check your accreditation from everywhere. Do not feel bad just follow the system how do you think others feel that has been educated at home and can not find a job for example Dr.s, Lawyers and many other professions. Do not get discourage you may have to move again or go back to school for another career you can not rely on one profession today jobs are downsizing Computer Science once was a popular field many people with computer backgrounds freelance themselves or open a business. Wishing you much success in your endeavors.
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The US experience most commonly refers to ability effectively communicate with "coworkers" on professional level.
Unfortunately many Hindi have a problems with communication in professional environment.
Intel in Austin Texas, decade ago hired many Hindi who graduated from BANGALORE just to find out year later that they could not follow instructions, wasted time of other engineers, and have had only pretensions that they were discriminated.
At Intel there were senior project managers who quit, as they had enough to deal with Hindi whose performance was well under par and required the project managers to "redo" the work which was not timely accomplished.
It is costlier to loose a top performer from Israel, Russia, Hungry, Czech or Poland, than to deal with totally incompetent Bangalorian! For that reason the American experience is the requirement to avoid very costly waste of time, by inability to follow instructions, inability to understand the needs and tasks required from the "associates". Hindi always argue when unable to complete task on time that thereare better methods, even there are not.
In many cases the Hindi philosophy is incompatible with the REQUIRED American employment values!
So you will be better by working in a foreign office of an American company, until you prove that you deserve to work for such company in US. There are many engineers in US who resent working with Hindi. For that reason many doesn't work with some foreigners especially like Hindi! The employment cultures are substantially diverging due to lack of American Experience. Neither Silicon Valley nor Texas is a training camp for want to be professionals!
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The US experience for internships sound bogus. But if you are looking for work in embedded technologies, try Microsoft in Redmond, Washington; or Qualcomm in San Diego, California. I’m no expert in your field, but go ahead and give it an honest push.
I know is so sad experience!!
Most of the embedded systems work I have found require an Electrical or Computer Engineering degree. Embedded systems require working with hardware. In addition many of the jobs I have seen also require security clearances for US nationals only.
From what you have posted I can only pressume you would need a visa to work in the U.S., so from the perspective of a U.S. Citizen, this is a non issue. Since those programs have been abused too much for too long, and should have been pulled back even further than the quota allowed this past year. The fact of the matter is, it is not your right to gain employment in another country over that of one of its citizens, and even if the citizen is just near quailified.
Have you tried applying for Intel? They'll gladly hire you with a Master Degree. If they want you. They will even pay for your trip here.
US experience is verifiable, most overseas isn't, I've seen experience made up and compounded by the fact that they couldn't string 2 words together to explain what they did.