# wahyd4/work-in-australia: a developer's written account of moving to Australia > This is not software. It is a long Chinese-language README plus a GitHub Issues stream by a Chengdu developer describing how he interviewed for and moved to Australia, and it is written for one narrow reader: a Chinese-speaking programmer who wants the same thing. **wahyd4/work-in-australia** — Work in Australia as a Developer / 程序员如何申请到澳洲工作 - Repository: https://github.com/wahyd4/work-in-australia - Stars: 2,817 · Forks: 181 - Language: Unknown - License: not declared - Published: 2026-09-28 · Updated: 2026-09-28 · Language: en - Canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/wahyd4-work-in-australia ## What this repository actually is The name suggests a tool. It is not one. The repository contains a .gitignore, an images/ directory, a readme.md and a wepay.jpg, and nothing else at the top level. The readme.md is a long Chinese essay titled 如何到澳洲工作, and the README itself says it is 一篇我基于我自己在 2017 年准备和面试的经历的回忆和分享, a recollection of the author's own preparation and interviews in 2017. The audience is stated just as plainly: Chinese-speaking developers, particularly ones coming out of a company like ThoughtWorks, who want to work abroad for at least two or three years rather than visit for a fortnight. The README is the product. There is no CLI, no API, no configuration file and no library to import. Anyone arriving from a package index expecting an installable artifact will be confused for about thirty seconds, and then they will either start reading or leave. The Issues tab is the other half of the project: the author notes he is writing a follow-up series called Live in AU, and the README points readers there for discussion. ## The problem it addresses: no single account of the whole path Immigration information for software engineers is fragmented across agency sites, forum threads and government pages, and most of it is written by people selling something. What this README does instead is walk one path end to end: deciding on a country, writing an English CV, organising interview knowledge, choosing job boards, going through the interview loop, preparing a visa, and packing. The stated motivation is candid and specific. The author writes about commute times in Chengdu, winter PM2.5 readings above 200, parking fees doubling from 2 to 4 yuan per hour, and the difficulty of reaching Google, Flickr, Tumblr and Instagram services. That framing matters for judging the document. It is a personal narrative with a clear point of view, not a neutral guide. The country comparison section, for instance, weighs the US, Canada and Australia and lands on Australia partly because a 457 visa could convert to PR, partly because the time difference is at most three hours, and partly because colleagues had done it. A reader who does not share those priorities will find the reasoning thin in places. The README does not pretend otherwise. ## How the material is organised: one README, one Issues stream There is no build step and no data flow to trace. The architecture, such as it is, is a single markdown file with a generated table of contents, plus a badge that counts page views through badges.toozhao.com. Images live in images/, and the README embeds them by raw GitHub URL. The v1.0.0 release, tagged v1.0.0-20221029 on 2022-10-29, is the only release listed. The README also links out heavily: to a Bilibili video and a YouTube video of a 2020 talk covering the same ground, to four blog posts from 2013 about a ThoughtWorks training programme in India, and to the author's own knowledge-mapping page. The practical consequence is that the repository is a hub pointing at other places rather than a self-contained document. If those external links rot, the repository loses a meaningful share of its value, and nothing in the repository pins or mirrors that content. ## Reading it as a first pass: where to start There is nothing to install. The repository says to get it from GitHub, and the only real first step is cloning it so the images resolve locally and you can read the markdown in an editor with a preview pane. ```bash git clone https://github.com/wahyd4/work-in-australia.git cd work-in-australia ``` After cloning, open readme.md. The table of contents at the top is the map: 准备 (preparation), 浏览工作机会与投简历 (browsing jobs and applying), 面试 (interview), 准备签证 (visa preparation), 出发前准备 (pre-departure). The preparation section is the densest. It covers choosing a country, the English CV, knowledge organisation, English ability, network connectivity and interview timing. The job-search section names Seek.com.au, au.jora.com, LinkedIn and recruiters, and notes that Stack Overflow Jobs is struck through, meaning it is no longer a route. The one piece of tooling the README recommends is not part of this repository at all. For organising interview knowledge, the author moved from the MindNode mind-mapping app to Docsify, a markdown-based documentation site generator, because a growing mind map forced constant zooming to stay readable. The README gives the Docsify link and the author's own knowledge page. If you want a concrete first use of anything here, that is it: read the preparation section, then build your own revision document in markdown rather than a mind map. ## The interview loop it describes The interview section is the part with the most transferable detail, and it is structured as a sequence rather than a list of tips: 电话初试 (phone screen), 笔试作业 (written assignment), 算法测试 (algorithm test), 技术面试 (technical interview), 结对编程 (pair programming), and 经理或者总监面试 (manager or director interview). That ordering is useful because it tells a candidate roughly how far into a process each stage sits and how many rounds to expect. The README makes two claims worth flagging. First, it says that many companies value a GitHub link on the CV, both as evidence of code quality and as a signal of how much time someone spends in open source. Second, it says that most of the English used in an interview can be prepared in advance. The second claim is plausible but untested here; the README offers no sample questions, no transcripts and no scoring. The interview section describes stages, not content, so a reader looking for actual practice material will not find it in this repository. ## Where the document is out of date or thin The visa discussion is the weakest part, and it is the part a reader is most likely to act on. The README discusses the 457 visa and its path to PR, and it states that a score of 5 in each IELTS band corresponds to the English requirement for the 482 work visa. Australia replaced the 457 with the Temporary Skill Shortage visa in 2018, and the README does not reconcile the two subclasses or give a date for when its statement about the 482 was accurate. Nothing here should be treated as a current statement of Australian immigration rules. The salary questions that dominate search traffic about working in Australia are not addressed at all. There is no cost-of-living breakdown, no figure for moving costs and no discussion of what a developer earns. The country comparison is also a snapshot of one person's reading in roughly 2017 and 2018, and it says so. The repository has not been archived, and its last push was on 2026-09-11, but the substantive content is a 2017 experience with a 2020 video attached, and the only release is from 2022-10-29. ## Alternatives to reading one person's account The obvious alternative is a structured community such as a country-specific developer forum or a subreddit for expat engineers, where many people answer the same question and disagreements surface. The difference in approach is that a forum gives you volume and recency but no coherent thread: you assemble the sequence yourself from dozens of partial answers, and you have no way to tell whose experience is typical. This repository is the opposite trade. You get one coherent path from motivation to departure, with the reasoning shown, and you accept that it is a single data point from one person at one point in time. A third option, paid migration agents, gives you current rules and liability but is written to sell a service. If your question is about a specific visa subclass or a specific salary band, this repository is the wrong tool; if your question is what the whole process feels like and roughly what order things happen in, it is a reasonable first read. ## Licence, maintenance and the cost of relying on it The repository metadata does not state a licence, and no licence file appears among the top-level entries, which are .gitignore, images/, readme.md and wepay.jpg. Without a licence, the default position is that the author retains rights, so reusing the text elsewhere is not clearly permitted. That matters more than usual here because the value of the repository is the prose itself, not code that could be reimplemented. If you want to quote it, quote briefly with attribution. Maintenance cost is close to zero for the reader because there is nothing to keep running. The cost is instead in freshness. The README carries a note that the author started a follow-up series in the Issues tab, so the Issues are where updates are likely to appear, not the README. The README also mentions 付费咨询, paid consultation, and a WeChat tip jar, so the author has a commercial interest in the topic. Treat the document as a starting point and check the Issues tab for anything newer before you rely on a specific detail. ## Conclusion Read this if you are a Chinese-speaking developer weighing a move to Australia and you want one person's first-hand sequence of steps rather than an agency's sales page. Do not read it as immigration advice: the README describes the 457 visa and a 482 English requirement, and neither is checked against current Australian law here. Before you act on any of it, verify the visa subclass and English requirement against the Australian government's own current rules, and check the Issues tab for whether the author has answered anything more recent than the 2022-10-29 v1.0.0 release. ## FAQ ### What is wahyd4/work-in-australia? It is a repository whose main content is a Chinese-language README titled 如何到澳洲工作, describing one developer's preparation and interviews in 2017 for working in Australia. It contains no software. ### How can you get a job in Australia according to this repository? The README describes preparing an English CV, organising interview knowledge, then browsing listings on Seek.com.au, au.jora.com, LinkedIn and through recruiters, followed by an interview loop of phone screen, written assignment, algorithm test, technical interview, pair programming and a manager interview. ### How do you apply for work in Australia using this guide? The README says to prepare two CV versions if you are targeting two roles, attach a GitHub link, and apply through the job boards and recruiters it names rather than through Stack Overflow Jobs, which the README strikes through as no longer a route. ### How do you apply for work in Australia from the Philippines, according to this repository? The README does not single out the Philippines or any other country of origin. It describes one general path: an English CV, job boards such as Seek.com.au and au.jora.com, recruiters, and an interview loop, with visa preparation handled afterwards. ### How do you apply for work in Australia from Singapore, according to this repository? The README gives no country-specific instructions for Singapore. Its preparation advice is the same for any reader: choose a country, write an English CV, organise your knowledge, and apply through Seek.com.au, au.jora.com, LinkedIn or recruiters. ### How do you apply for work in Australia from Indonesia, according to this repository? There is no Indonesia-specific section in the README. The repository is written from a Chinese developer's perspective and describes a single sequence of preparation, applications and interviews that it does not vary by country of origin. ## Sources - [Issues](https://github.com/wahyd4/work-in-australia/issues) - [README](https://github.com/wahyd4/work-in-australia/blob/master/README.md) - [Releases](https://github.com/wahyd4/work-in-australia/releases) - [wahyd4/work-in-australia on GitHub](https://github.com/wahyd4/work-in-australia) --- Hysen Labs editorial analysis, written from the project's own repository and release notes. Cite the canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/wahyd4-work-in-australia