Ask HN: Jobs with Relocation in the US?

3 points by avilesj 6 years ago | 1 comment

I'm a US expat who has been living abroad for way too long.

I plan to begin looking for a job probably July-August (expecting the ongoing situation to get better) and I'm wondering what are my chances of finding a job with relocation support.

Not sure how would companies react to the fact I'm currently outside the country with all the intentions to go back. I also never held a job in the US, all my experience is overseas.

I'm a SWE with 5 years of experience in a handful of markets (finance, health, fast food). I've worked with React, NodeJE, Serverless stack (AWS) and have dealt with a lot of proprietary technologies that I rather not talk about.

Worst case scenario for me is just couch surf at my cousin's house in FL, which I rather not do.

Am I being too hopeful to find a job with relocation, living overseas?

mtmail 6 years ago |

Same chance as getting a signing bonus or company car or them paying extra for a recruitment agency I'd say. For a company it's an expense just taxed differently. I once got such a package consisting of immigration lawyer + flight cost + rental car one month + furnished appartment one month + shipping my stuff, about 12.000 USD total. The HR department called it package and all was organized by a separate company specialized in that. At least the big companies deal with this multiple times per year if not per month.