How to find startups / firms that operate in London and US and are willing to do a L-visa transfer?
I know that Cloudflare offers this: If you start working for them, they promise that after a year in London you can transfer to SF.
For example, here is a blog post about a law firm complaining about the law being enforced:
http://blogs.ilw.com/entry.php?5944-To-L1b-or-Not-to-L1B-Dif...
Doesn't Microsoft use a L-visa to put people first into Canada and then transfer them to US?
1. Business domain: That OP has learned about the business domain that Cloudflare operates in, and has gained insights and knowledge that will not be present in fresh hires in the US
2. Cloudflare business processes: That OP has mastered one or many Cloudflare business processes which require at least a year of working with the company and cannot be expected from new joiner immediately
3. Proprietary tools knowledge: That OP has mastered one or many proprietary tools used by Cloudflare and that this mastery is a result of working with the tools extensively during OP's one year tenure with the company
tl;dr version - need to have some knowledge (tools, domain knowledge, business process knowledge) that cannot be expected from a fresh joiner.