What exactly are you hoping to find? As always there are limitless awful positions with either poor pay and/or poor hours and/or no opportunity for learning, and very few positions that have all of above. Even if you stumble upon one, you'll have to potentially fight over it with a really capable group of applicants.
As a non-resident you are pretty much at the mercy of whoever is sponsoring your H1B. If you are from the lucky set of countries and have a graduate degree, you can sit in purgatory at a BigCo for 5 years and then finally have the right to quit and start your own gig.
Thanks for the reality check. The combination of visa requirements and tight competition for spots at good firms is admittedly more daunting than I'd expected.
The H1B is a tough obstacle, and I'm instead looking at the 18-month renewable H1B1 which applies to workers from Singapore and Chile and doesn't lead to permanent residency. I'll have to look for people who've made the jump and get their advice, I guess. And network with people in good companies which might be hiring.
As a non-resident you are pretty much at the mercy of whoever is sponsoring your H1B. If you are from the lucky set of countries and have a graduate degree, you can sit in purgatory at a BigCo for 5 years and then finally have the right to quit and start your own gig.