The US contract you didn't get wasn't a skills problem. It was one missing line. (opens in new tab)

You are not getting rejected because you are not good enough. You are getting filtered out before a human ever reads your code, by a question your CV never answers. I talk to senior engineers outside the US every week. Eight, ten, fifteen years in. People who have built distributed systems, carried pagers through real outages, shipped things that move money. And they keep hitting the same wall with US remote roles: apply, silence. Apply, silence. "We went another way." They assume it is the s...