u/Yeunger

Just wanted to give my success story. I was quite nervous for mine so if anyone has questions I can try to help but honestly it won't be any advice or anything

• Rainbow Bridge. Wednesday at noon, not busy at all
• Entire packet was done by law firm. It had intro, support letter, education verification, copy of degree, copy of transcript, offer letter, and a bunch of crap about the company (entire packet was 70+ pages long)
• Job title is "Software Development Engineer II"
• Company is a household name (the worst FAANG)
• This job is an internal transfer, I've worked for this company in Toronto for almost 3 years
• My offer letter had essentially no valuable information. Not even a signature. The second he looked at it, he just asked for the support letter instead cause it was useless.
• He only wanted the offer letter, support letter, scan of degree, letter from the expert to verify my degree and scan of transcripts
• He hardly even read my support letter
• I also flagpoled if that matters. Grabbed lunch and just dipped back to Canada.

Questions they asked me:

• What is the role you are applying for today?
• What company?
• What do you do there?
• Do I have a degree for this role?
• Will I work remote/Do I plan to move there?
• Some small talk about where I live, was I working for this company in Toronto, why are they sending me out there

My opinions on the process:

• I definitely got lucky with this officer. He didn't harp on any details. Everyone talks on this sub about them being tough on Software Engineers applying under CSA, and I'm sure it happens, but I think it's unfortunately (or fortunately) just the luck of who you get on that day
• I feel bias will always be a factor for stuff like this. Born, lived and worked in Toronto my entire life, including almost 3 years already at the same company (like i said, internal transfer). Company is a household name. I feel it really played to my advantage here.

Didn't see this talked about anywhere but I just want to plan ahead.

I have an appointment for mid/late August in a Buffalo PoE, if I were to get denied and want to try again, it would be mid/late September before the next available appointment slot. Do I just have to wait for that or is there any other way? I know port hopping gets flagged so i don't want to do that.