<p>Recently I have been through a lot of articles that described the shrinking in the job market for international university/college graduates. All that was on my mind before was to earn a degree in electrical engineering but now I realize that there is another mountain to climb after that. I just wanted to hear form the actual workers in the field. How is the working atmosphere around there? Do companies tend to shake off workers with no U.S citizenship?</p>
<p>I know some international students found it more difficult to find jobs and internships because some companies just don’t want to hire non-citizens.</p>
<p>I think it is getting harder to get a job outside of the United States as well. In India, many companies are closing down thier centers because workers there cannot interface with the US employees very well, due to time zone differences, etc.</p>
<p>I think that there will always be a demand hereforth for foreign workers, because they are cheaper. But I think this difference is negligible now because it doesn’t matter for some jobs where the person is (like software development) and there is often one liaison who coordinates between groups. But in other situations, especially when the coordination is very hands-on, I don’t think that having many foreign members works well.</p>
<p>It is more difficult to find a job in the US without a US citizenship.</p>
<p>First, you are immediately ineligible for defense jobs.</p>
<p>Second, many companies simply don’t want to or simply can’t go through the extra work of completing H1B visas. I know many of my international friends found it difficult to find jobs this year (well, everyone had a hard time).</p>
<p>O M G . . .
I’m planning on getting a Chemical Engineering degree with a minor in Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania (SEAS class of 2013), this degree will cost me (and yes, I signed a contract with my parents for a 10 year repayment plan) $240,000 (US dollars).
Are you telling me that I’m wasting my time and money?? (Upenn degree is unrecognized in my home country)</p>
<p>The depths of a global recession. 
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Pray, that the world stimulus programs take hold. </p>
<p>It is difficult to find a job with citizenship.</p>
<p>Just apply as much as you can, especially on campus interview. A lot of my friends international students got internship over this summer by the on-campus interview or job fair. They work full-time and get paid like $20 to $30/ hr in LA area.Im so jealous about that. I also got some interview but hvn’t heart anything yet. ECE major</p>
<p>For international students, ECE/CS are among the easiest major out of all to get a job in US, especially in software development area. Big Companies such as Microsoft and Google do hire a lot of international students. I have been interning with a giant tech companies in Silicon Valley,white people were the minority there. For other engineering major, it is extremely hard to get an internship. Easier for full time, but you must be very good.</p>
<p>Hey. How did u get in there? Are they still hiring students for internship???</p>
<p>Just go to your career fair and apply through you career service…it is pretty hard for freshmen and sophomore to get an internship offer even for US citizen (Unless you are really good). Just get good grade (most companies have cut off of 3.0), the higher the better,and do well in interview. For software engineer/developer, all those Data Structure and Algorithm stuff.</p>