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OP here.

Yes, Apple is certainly saving a bundle on classified ads in the free community paper with circulation of 6,000.

These ads are just to go through the motions to get someone a visa.

They don’t actually want anyone to reply to the ad. That’s why they have mailing addresses in the ad instead of email addresses or URLs.

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Well, as some other people pointed out, it's for a green card, not a visa. Posting an ad in the local paper is likely a legal requirement to go through the process. So, yeah, why would they spend any more on doing it than necessary?

But if you actually are old enough to have looked for jobs or anything else in a physical newspaper, that kind of writing is typical of want ads in the classifieds. It's not some special thing Apple is doing to prevent people from understanding the ad. Almost every ad that size is written like that.

I definitely do get the impression that a lot of people expect Apple to take out a full page ad in the NYT or something.

What would happen if someone replied though?

The large FANG companies are always hiring. If you can pass their interviews, you would probably get an offer for, if not exactly the same team, a similar position in another team with open headcount.

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