Yes. They hire engineers specifically to work on it.

Except that I (and I believe it will apply to many folks similar to myself) working for US company branches located in the EU for a decade, on the staff/EM positions, with education to qualify also for O1 - will not put my life and my family’s life to be the subject of sudden immigration changes.

What’s stopping them from doing the same for L1/O1 folks and locking them in with days’ notice?

Few of my US colleagues that I know are now abroad, and I cannot fathom how they took the news.

The police in Serbia used it during the peaceful demonstration on its own folk: https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2025/03/17/did-the-serbia...

Since this year the employees are vesting RSUs (not options, and also no expiry date) quorterly now, they sell a portion of them (automatically) and pay taxes to the government at each vesting event, as the expiry date no longer exists. For liquidity there are tenders where employees sell their stock privately, so the employees no longer need IPO to cash out.

Just to clarify - for many years employees were getting the RSUs not options, just with the expiratation date attached - which is gone since this year.

So what happened to employees who had RSUs with expirations that have passed? Do they lose the value? I know my startup stock had 10yr expirations.

It didn’t happen as they were careful to make a tender before expiration hit anyone.