Career
Will my career survive aliyah?
Profession-by-profession truth: licensing, time to first job, real salary shift, who's hiring olim.
Pick your profession
The honest answer
💻 Software engineer
Licensing required
None — portfolio + interviews.
Trivial
Time to first job
1–4 months
Salary vs. origin
Roughly equal to NYC junior, ~30% less than NYC senior. But you keep more of it.
Who hires olim
- · Wix
- · Monday
- · Lightricks
- · Riskified
- · Israeli branches of Google/Meta/Apple
- · Defense (Rafael, IAI)
Veteran oleh take
Easiest profession to transfer. English is the default in tech offices. Hebrew is a nice-to-have, not required.