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Ask HN: Employers, why do or don't you offer relocation?

2 pointsby kminehartalmost 6 years ago
Those of you who are responsible for finding &#x2F; hiring candidates, I&#x27;m curious what motivated you to seek employees outside of your area.<p>How far are you willing to relocate someone?<p>What&#x27;s stopping you from relocating someone overseas?<p>I&#x27;m seeing a lot of interesting jobs in foreign countries that don&#x27;t offer any relocation and I&#x27;m wondering why!

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gshdgalmost 6 years ago
As in paying for relocation? Or just as in hiring people who have plans to relocate?<p>We do the latter (if the person does not require visa sponsorship). We can’t afford the former. Hiring someone is risky enough as it is without adding extra up-front expense. And the pool of candidates who are local or have plans to relocate without being subsidized has been sufficient for us.<p>And visas are extra complexity that we don’t have the time resources to devote to — and in some cases (like H1Bs) an additional risk because they’re a crapshoot.