Heyo, I’ve been lurking this subreddit, crawling through the wiki, and parsing documentation on visas and I’m hoping to get some feedback.
I currently have 11-ish years of experience as as systems engineer/devops engineer/SRE/etc. I have experience with AWS, GCP, and bare metal edge deployments. I’ve built and managed production systems based on k8s, Nomad, and elastic container service. I know a handful of programming languages well enough to interview with them. My resume is fairly buzzword compliant. I’m currently a senior/principal/technical lead at a startup in Silicon Valley.
I do not have a degree. I was double majoring in computer science and business when I dropped out to work as a sysadmin when I was nineteen.
The wiki makes it sound like getting a visa without a degree is nigh impossible but some comments indicate that my skill set is very much so in demand.
So my question: how easy would it be to not only find a company willing to hire me but also get through the visa process?
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**Are senior cloud engineers in enough demand to interview degreeless?**
Heyo, I’ve been lurking this subreddit, crawling through the wiki, and parsing documentation on visas and I’m hoping to get some feedback.
I currently have 11-ish years of experience as as systems engineer/devops engineer/SRE/etc. I have experience with AWS, GCP, and bare metal edge deployments. I’ve built and managed production systems based on k8s, Nomad, and elastic container service. I know a handful of programming languages well enough to interview with them. My resume is fairly buzzword compliant. I’m currently a senior/principal/technical lead at a startup in Silicon Valley.
I do not have a degree. I was double majoring in computer science and business when I dropped out to work as a sysadmin when I was nineteen.
The wiki makes it sound like getting a visa without a degree is nigh impossible but some comments indicate that my skill set is very much so in demand.
So my question: how easy would it be to not only find a company willing to hire me but also get through the visa process?
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