I want to dispel certain accusations made about my EB-1 blog on X.
I wrote that to help people. To not gate-keep knowledge. It's not great to be punished for that. The primary reason I write online is to help.
I'll break down the claims and why they're patently false:
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On low quality science journals.
1 I did not use them, you can check Scholar.
2 These were recommended in the onboarding email of one of the biggest immi law firms that I used at first who have done 1000s of EB-1s.
I don't recommend it, but people have the right to know.
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On publishing trade articles pt1
My language in the blog insinuated that Trade Press Services writes papers for you.
They DON'T.
They interview you, draft an article that you edit, and find trade publications who run it. Been around 30+yrs, with corp clients too.
I've spent the past 13yrs in the US afraid of being fired, anxious about travel paperwork, and not knowing if I'd spend New Years with family. Takes 100+yrs for India-borns unless you do an EB-1A.
Things immigrants go through:
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You can't study what you want.
A close friend, a star mechanical engineer, learnt by soph year that most of the jobs he wanted didn't hire intls — Lockheed, Boeing, SpaceX. At his lowest point, he almost switched to CS. He ended up powering through a top PhD to get a job.
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You can't always work in a field you didn't study.
A friend who was a chemical engineer ended up getting up a job as a consultant in NYC. When she applied for an H-1B, she was told her job doesn't require her major and had to leave.
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When I write about leaving India, many say I'm biased. Let's look at data.
Every year, ~2.5M Indians move abroad.
Indians are the largest overseas diaspora with 30M+ people. In comparison, ~30M in India make 10LPA ($12k/yr). People who leave far outnumber those who return!
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The topic of moving to and from India is so prone to narrative building on both sides..
Indians overseas feel patriotic and say "I want to move back" without doing so. Indians in India for 30yrs have said "India's future is now, why leave?" and cherrypick flaws abroad.
2/7
I've moved back and forth to India a few times and many in my circle debate this. There are plenty of good reasons to do both, but let's not lie about the data.
The numbers are scant on reverse migration, but most estimates show <10%. For every 10 that leave, 1 comes back.
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Redditor goes from failing their college Algorithms and Data Structures class to cramming Leetcode for months and getting an E5 offer at Meta.
If the system is this broken, you might as well exploit it and take home $500k/yr.
Common myths:
"They're not hiring anymore"
"They don't ask leetcode questions anymore, maybe others but not us"
"Leetcode won't work, you need my course"
90% of teams espp at FAANG don't care about your experience, just interview scores. Hardest part is getting an interview.
How I went from a low level startup to FAANG in 3mos. Interview Tips and Tricks: reddit.com/r/leetcode/s/g…