Remote work visa sponsorship is quietly becoming a real recruiting weapon for African tech talent

Three companies I’ve tracked over the last year are now leading with relocation packages specifically to poach senior engineers. Here’s what it means for negotiating leverage if you’re on the market.

What’s changed is that this used to be a Silicon Valley-only play. Now mid-sized European and Gulf-region companies are offering the same thing, which means the competition for senior African engineering talent just got a lot more crowded — in a good way, if you’re the one being recruited.

If you’re not at least getting these offers in your inbox at the senior level, it’s worth asking why.