Is the implication here that the huge outlier salaries listed in the raw data are due to typos? I assume that's the case but didn't see it mentioned...
H1B Salaries in the US
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#82Its interesting how the top H1B companies are IT consultancy companies. There are far too many enterprise I.T. consultants and I'm all for B2B adoption of software. I question how much value these consultants add sometimes. I hear so many stories of failed deployments and spending millions on projects a few competent individuals could of accomplished.
Enterprise IT is all about money, cost reductions, etc. Good people are expensive as hell (we're talking bill rates of $2000-$5000/day). So outsourcing (and near sourcing) companies offer rates like "I'll give you 3 .NET guys that are three times as productive as that one guy who costs $3k/day and we'll only charge you $2k/day. Great savings!". These IT companies have fantastic profit margins. There is a complete dis…
I look at this as Cargo Cult IT, but it makes sense in that if most IT project fail (and they do, something less than half outright or are canceled, significant lack of functionality and the like brings up "failure" to more than half) then this is a cheaper way to fail while still pretending to do IT.
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Undergrad, and I didn't go to a prestigious school.
Frankly, that's amazing. I hope you took/get to take something that's not too far off that mark.
I do alright. I went with something that's lower salary, but there are things in life that are more important to me than money. Dailybooth, the company whose offer I accepted, seemed to have the maximal overall combination of the things I was looking for.
What I did wasn't magic, though. I worked my ass off to get relevant work experience starting as soon as I could. I used that to get into a YC company. They liked me and my work enough to write me a letter of rec and forward my resume to the YC founder's list. FWIW, no one even asked about college beyond "how's college going?" as I was in final's week of my last semester when I interviewed with a bunch of companies after the forward.