International student applicants with MS/PhD don't get EB-2 green card sponsorship - Anonymous employee Micron Technology Employee Review

1.0
4 Nov 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

pays the bills, sponsors green card

Cons

Takes a long time to process green cards even if you have an MS or PhD because you'll get an EB3. ... And while you're an H1-B employee, your salary will be lower than industry average, promotions very unlikely, and almost no skills to add in your resume. (For instance, your job will be dispositioning lots, following lots of rules and procedures, helping out repairing tools ... all of which are very basic and does not add anything valuable to your resume (i.e. process design). But can you quit?? Hell no! because once you do that, you'll be out of status or risk restarting your green card application from square 1. Also, the company is moving its operations to Singapore and Japan.

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