PointyDog

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I lived in Howard County for a year. With the combination of county income tax and affluent property taxes, every service was exceptionally well funded.

Having lived in Mountain View & Sunnyvale, CA as well for a decade my experience was Howard County itself had quicker and better services than those cities.

It doesn't surprise me at all that their police department is competent and helpful.

Comment · 3 years ago

I replied elsewhere - but this was my (successful - now an LPR) path.

My lawyer told me you need a 4 year degree equivalent, and 4 years of experience can convert to a year.

If you have zero university education, that would be 16 years' experience required, based on that lawyer's legal instruction.

Comment · 3 years ago

This was my path, so it's possible. I dropped out after year two of my degree to join a startup and worked for 10 years in industry.

I converted 8 years of that experience to 2 years of a bachelor's degree to make the full 4 required, and had a University professor provide a letter of endorsement.

I was applying from Europe, and even then it was apparently a fairly expensive process for my sponsor.

Comment · 4 years ago

Apologies if not the right place for this feedback, but the careers page does not work properly on Firefox 100/Linux - clicking any opening does nothing.

I work heavily with enterprise products. In my experience, when you're selling an enterprise-ready product it's a good idea to QA all public-facing code, even sections of a public website.

This is because I have found many enterprise customers are more interested in maintenance (which can be pre-assessed by looking at support and QA experiences) than they are the actual product.

Comment · 5 years ago

  Location: San Jose, CA
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