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I have one year of experience at a FAANG and i posted on the HN "who is looking for a job" thread and got an email from a company.

Would you have gotten that offer with a year of non-FAANG experience?

Probably not

Do you have an American or EU or other passport?

American

That makes a lot of things easier.

It's easy to make fun of America, but they still have one of the broadest labour markets; and also one of the highest paying for software people.