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> Out of the top 10 companies, you've got the usual suspects like Google, Microsoft, Amazon.

One of the reason for that is, from experience, they don't really ask for immigration status (at least not long ago they didn't seem to care). If candidate received the greenlight from engineering, it was the legal department's job to get them a visa. What's a 10k of legal fees when the employee's signing bonus is 3x that?



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