Australian Tech Jobs

I moved to the other side of my country (Australia) for recently for work because I felt I needed to make a short step before the leap to SF (most friends recommended going to SF, talking to a few companies, flying back then doing the visa process which costs a non-trivial amount). Trump administration, rising house prices and a possible bubble bursting are keeping me out of the states at the moment.However I must say I felt like Melbourne would be a lot more startup adept than it is. I feel

Australia pays very well and has pretty reasonable overlap hours with much of Asia if you've got family or friends that you want to catch up with virtually.Probably 90% of my colleagues and customers aren't from Australia (including me!) so it's pretty welcoming in of Australia (there's obviously still issues here, but no worse than you'd experience in other Western countries)Please, we need more talent..

I raise you an Australia. Smaller market and different time zone but cheaper and in my experience they make some exceptional workers/engineers.

It's true that house prices in Australia, especially Sydney, are so high right now they are on par with the Bay Area. Other financial details are harder to calculate: Your lifetime medical costs, for example. And also a lack of bonuses or pay raises. A number of times my US-citizen colleagues were offered money to stay in jobs when I, as a visa worker, was offered none. Companies believe that visa workers are unable to quit, and abuse it (regardless of who you are). (Disclaimer: not Netflix

Not unless you're trying to get a job in Australia :)

AUS image = mining. USA image = tech innovation.Many Australians talented developer and computer engineers have been flocking to USA for mainly two reasons:1. They are rewarded more in USA, both socially and financially. Who doesn't want to be in the middle of global innovation among other great people?2. It is much more prestigious and hard to resist. Many US-based companies have been actively recruiting Australians, for example Amazon.com.This leave Australia with limited local tal

any opportunity like these for someone looking to move in australia?

It's already a done thing.https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/working-in-australia/r...

I visited Australia once. It is an absolute backwater. The top engineers, maybe 1000 in the whole country, come to the USA anyway to work for Google or Tesla. Not to mention, they import 90% of their specialized workforce from Asia.

hey. Congratulations on your decision.i think it all goes deeper in overall culture/attitude there.i was in Melbourne in 2012.. with idea to relocate wholesale, 2nd time. Worked 2 months at some "startup", that fired me when i finished the task given.. Seems it was cheaper to hire "permanent" then fire, rather than take someone on 2 months contract. So that's one red light on the dashboard.. There were other redlights from overall "society", feeling