> I believe Google would be happy to have him in London, Zurich, or Canada. We have solid engineering teams in all of them.
As I understood it, he had gone through the interview process and been offered a specific role in Mountain View, for which they then couldn't get the visa. This was back in 2015, so no Trump craziness yet then, just the ordinary bureaucratic stuff.
And just to express my butthurt, Israelis don't even get visa-free tourism to the United States.
However, my view on that is a bit different - if he can avoid, working on his own for his own future instead of a big corp is the way to go.
PS: goog emp.