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I'm probably going to be unpopular, but as a non-American, I actually find that hiring non-American is a good trend, especially if you want to sell all around the world. I don't have an opinion on H1-B specifically.
do you feel that employers in your home country should also follow this rubric?
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I actually didn't ask for feedback on my personal situation. But since you've decided to dig into my profile and offer up advice from a throwaway publicly i will defend myself publicly - 1. > No expertise in technology: Strongly disagree. I'm an expert in python, javascript, c#, application development, object oriented programming, agile, communication, and much more. I guess this isn't shining through on my profiles…
You don't have to correct throwaway's opinion, you have to correct your online appearance. People reviewing your submission don't know these details you're giving and they won't ask. Unjust or not, that's the shallow first impression he got. It's like if a user does something wrong in your app, you don't blame or explain to the user what they did wrong. You figure out how to improve your UX. I came to similar conclus…
This website is part of my public profile. Allowing people to shape an incorrect narrative of myself on this website is not something I will be doing. Especially when it is coming from anonymous posters who haven't shared their professional credentials.
> you have to correct your online appearance
Obviously I am continuously looking to improve my "online appearance". I disagree with the feedback I've received here. People's emotions are running high on a hot-button topic (immigration and job market woes) so in other locations in this post I'm being called a racist and a conspiracy theorist - I am taking everything here with a grain of salt and doing damage control as anonymous accounts sift through my various online profiles and offer up unsolicited advice. Defending one's position is pretty standard in this situation.
Correcting disinformation ("complaining on linkedin", "no expertise in technology", "political posts", "you're a racist", "you're a conspiracy theorist") is part of maintaining a public profile on the internet.
Lastly, as I stated in my response to the alleged hiring manager with regard to my expertise in technology:
> I guess this isn't shining through on my profiles. Will have to find a way to fix it.
I see this as a combination of three forces at play: AI, WFH, and Skillset--all adding downward pressure to hiring talent in the U.S.: 1) While A.I. may now be only adding 10-20% of productivity gains, the rapid pace of improvement leaves open the possibility that tha gains can be soon much more than that. So, instead of scaling your company now, if you can afford to, wait out a bit and see where this goes. 2) Even t…
Except, you get what you pay for.
If someone is good then they are able to compete for more highly paid positions and therefore aren't working for 20% of the salary.
So in the end you shoot yourself in the foot, especially in startups where crappy code leads your team to work at a snails pace as your code becomes a spaghetti tangled mess. Then, once it does you end up hiring the expensive guys to come in as consultants to try to get back to what you could have avoided in the first place. Then you have to hope that in the meantime you haven't had any major security issues...
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> And it's not just in programming-related jobs either. Parts of industry and the blue collar market are shitting themselves in Germany right now. > Politicians are still complaining about Fachkräftemangel, These two things can be, and in fact are right now true at the same time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_unemployment Everyone coming from an ex-Warsaw-Pact country most probably already lived through th…
I think this is the most interesting and telling comment i've read. Inflation destroyed the world economy.
Related or not (Covid was a big shock after all), "rich" countries have been living way over their means for many decades now (in terms of natural resources). It's particularly wild to see people calling for a return to the "norm" that were the post-WW2 decades : that wasn't a "norm", that was the fastest growth period that mankind had ever seen (and probably will ever see) !
So now (since the 1970s) we are way over due for a correction... which is probably going to look like a few centuries of recession with a few good years (for some maybe even good decades) thrown in here and there.
The longest period of unemployment I've ever experienced ended about 6 months ago. I was unemployed for 11 months. The company that finally hired me was intentionally targeting people with lots of experience. I have that. They also pay less than I used to make but I took it because I needed a job. Previous to that period of unemployment, my resume tended to get noticed. I got interviews from 3 applications out of 5.…
If it’s any consolation, I haven’t gotten any favors as a trans woman, even with “passing privilege.” Both myself and the cis women in tech I know all hear the same thing: companies are tipping the scales to favor diversity hires. But in truth it seems to be a marketing tactic rather than a hiring strategy. It’s quite bizarre at all levels — I often receive invitations from recruiters to apply to “women led startups”…
To add to your ZIRP point: I find it bizarre that tech companies are still valued at 10x their revenue in the stockmarket. The multiple is a high-tech premium... because computer technology is new and therefore every business that involves computers is high-growth?
We don't pay crazy multiples for businesses that use electricity or telephones. Why should we pay them for tech? Soon all these high-tech companies are going to have valuation multiples like manufacturers, logistics companies and fast-food chains.
Not really a problem for me but that's because I had the foresight to realize this is the way things are going and that it's time to get into my own thing and start my own companies if I am going to survive. The thing that was the writing on the wall for me ages ago was seeing older programmers with plenty of talent finding it hard to get work in their field, like the ageism thing, if you're past 35 or so and still j…
I'm seeing stats that show very few jobs have gone to white people as of late, and many people online are stating its an issue, but I personally have not felt as though being white is the issue for me. I am trying to get a read on other people's experiences with ageism, racism and sexism. I have experienced being replaced by foreigners who were cheaper, but I doubt being white was the issue. How did you get your comp…
https://31337itsolutions.com if you're curious. Everything else we do is related to ecommerce and that's always good $$$ as well. Feel free to steal my idea for your own locale if you're looking for work, it didn't really cost much to start this.
When ever the market is this bad, it usually indicates we are in a recession.
The government numbers are just a lagging indicator.
Great comments and insights. Thanks to everybody for being constructive. I am also going through the same situation, but in Europe. Despite having a PhD in Machine Learning, somehow I cannot even get to the interviews. I am suspecting it might stupidly have to do with my LaTeX-generated CV which gets desk-rejected by badly design CV screening systems… anyone else sharing my suspicion?
It's awful that this is the case but you really just want to make it a word document because of administration staff and software who are tasked with filtering things based on really the most arbitrary of reasons, but that's how much of the business world works because Microsoft went and built everything so hard around office collaboration at the expense of stuff like security or open standards
There may also for security reasons be policies against opening or even receiving PDF attachments in email.
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* Well, I am not sure what to say other than: You are wrong. We might actually have one of the worst.* if you believe this and your children are here in the US that would be borderline child abuse to subject your own flesh and blood to the worst educational system… I said FoxNews mostly because you are tauting word-for-word party-line garbage without any thought of your own on the matter. people from all over the wor…
> shitting on US education is ring-wing garbage you are trying to sell and you should not be selling it cause no sane person will be buying it. First of all, your right-wing characterization is wrong, insulting and distasteful. You have revealed much about yourself when choosing to take this approach instead of having a conversation, so I do not expect you to apologize. So be it. It is really interesting to me to see…
US education has problems that can be fixed with the right approach and incentives. This is not insurmountable, it simply requires recognizing the issues and acting in the best interest of future generations and the nation.
If you came here to discuss and said this to begin with - the conversation would have been a lot different. This is what I mentioned couple of times, there are problems. however, you said that US is one of the worst which is why you had to read a bunch of stuff ... not sure I have to tell you this but there is a very slight difference between US education has problems that can be fixed with the right approach and incentives vs. "US education system is one of the worst" :)