Yeah i seized the oppertunity with both hands. I proposed and married my girlfreind in 2 days to get the visa jointly.

I got a job offer becuase i wrote software to solve a particular issue with firebase at the time, and posted it to their user group, then they offered a guest blog post which i wrote here https://firebase.googleblog.com/2014/02/firesafe-add-complex... then i think i got the offer!