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I believe for H1B they have to post the jobs and demonstrate no qualified American could be found. I've seen companies do this quickly and quietly to satisfy the requirement. I wonder if there a way to identify these opportunities and take advantage of the low applicant pool.
Generally not supposed to say this out loud, but being the only American on an all H1B team at these companies can be absolutely brutal. Very alienating, always missing out on back channel communications, no sympathy for missteps
Non-American here. Do H1B workers need to live in the US to work, or they can work remotely from their country?
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Is that really related to h1b or other (cultural?) differences?
It’s not as if it’s directly attributable to an H1B but if a group has eight Indian people on it chances are they’ll converse in their native language from time to time and it’s quite possible they’ll have a group chat and a close relationship (given their shared similar circumstances). Not difficult to see how an outsider might feel excluded. That said, that same group often faces exclusion in the wider company (and…
This needs to be a big No No. Everyone should speak the language everyone else can understand in the workplace at all times. I natively speak German, but I never speak German at work even when I temporarily was only working with someone visiting from Germany. It would have been rude to everyone around us. But then I'm also weird in that I dislike speaking my native language...
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Keep salaries low? This is one of the boomiest industries, with truly insane salaries, with years of employee-favorable conditions. Beyond that, we’re in for years of macroeconomic reckoning for unresolved asset bubbles in the 2000s and horrendously bad COVID policy. Laying off makes sense. Sometimes you hire to backfill roles or for strategic teams. Sometimes an H1b is the correct hire.
>This is one of the boomiest industries, with truly insane salaries How many software developers can, in a reasonable timeframe, buy a house in the place they live and support alone a family of four people? Then the truly insane salaries you are talking about are not really that insane. >Laying off makes sense. Sometimes you hire to backfill roles or for strategic teams. Sometimes an H1b is the correct hire. Develope…
House prices have gone absolutely nuts in the last forty years. We are witnessing the largest generational transfer of wealth in the history of the world.
Healthcare and education have also experienced broken cost growth.
But those are problems for everyone that’s not on the winning side of these giant money sucks.
It doesn’t change the fact that ratio of programmer salary to median salary has been moving way up. It’s both true that we are doing relatively much better and we are getting screwed by costs just like everyone else.
>low-paid The minimum annual salary for an H1B worker is $60,000. That is higher than what tech workers get paid in most of Europe.
Generally not supposed to say this out loud, but being the only American on an all H1B team at these companies can be absolutely brutal. Very alienating, always missing out on back channel communications, no sympathy for missteps
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You don't understand what slavery is. Slaves don't get paid and it isn't voluntary. H1B are paid and is entirely voluntary. The reason foreigners accept and compete for the positions is because the pay is better than the positions they can get locally. Calling that slavery is ignorant and an insult to anyone alive or historically who has suffered actual slave labor.
If you need to work to survive, you are a wage slave
Non-American here. Do H1B workers need to live in the US to work, or they can work remotely from their country?
There are worse stuff than H1B, eg L1B. H1B has the req that you must find another sponsor within 60 days of leaving a company, but you can quit just fine otherwise.
L1B means you can only work for the sponsor company and nobody else and as soon as you get fired you are gone.