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I'm so stressed… I can't believe I play my future in a lottery.
This lottery always amazed me from outside. Now that I applied, I find it awful =)
Otherwise I'd be asking my employer how difficult it is to transfer to their Canadian office...
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I think it is more like %68.5 >>> 85.000 / 124.000 0.6854838709677419
Actually more like: 65,000/104,000 = 62.5%, assuming someone is not in Masters quota. Out of the 124k, 20k will be for masters. The remaining masters join the pool of lottery for 65k. So there are 65k spots available for 124k - 20k(=104k)
I think a lot of people are confusing the three kinds of applicants of H-1B visas. I don't want people to throw the baby out with the bathwater. * Category 1 is your average small company who found a great foreign engineer and wants to keep them for one reason or the other. These are in the minority. * Category 2 is your Google, Microsoft, etc hiring high quality engineers. * Category 3 is your IT outsourcing / consu…
If there's such a shortage, then how come wages are stagnant? Norm Matloff ( http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html ) points out that "The H-1B work visa is fundamentally about cheap, de facto indentured labor." Cringely points out ( http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/23/what-americans-dont-know-... ) that "H-1B visas are about journeyman techies and nothing else." The evidence that the wealthy need more guest workers i…
Just goes to show, multinationals don't really care about the well-being of the citizens of countries they do business in.
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If for no other reason, a CS degree is useful because it helps find entry level jobs which lead to actual experience. Without a CS degree, though, how can you really ascertain whether it's useful for "real life programming" or not? You've done okay without it, but you don't know how well you'd have done with one. Second, I, and apparently several people you interviewed with, would claim physics isn't even peripherall…
Ok, I see your point. On my earlier post, I was typing on my phone, but it comes off as rude where I was trying to be brief. I understand that a CS degree would've made things much easier on getting a job, and I would've been offered a higher salary as well, I'm sure. As I said, that's why I don't ask for sympathy, I know full well that my path is probably the less traditional one. But even so I had plenty of hours o…
I know people with math, statistics and aeronautical engineering backgrounds who've worked at Google and Microsoft. I'm sure physicists would fit in too.
I'm not an expert on the subject, but I distinctly remember Oracle's CEO complaining about H1B visas for our graduation speech. It was a stale speech, particularly when their company never even sent a Rep to our school's career fair. It took me months (7) to get a web dev position as a physics major, often because I was perceived as a weaker candidate. My git projects were never even looked at and I was once told to…
Your story doesn't back up the claims you're making. To be honest, I'm surprised you got any developer position at all with a physics major. If you wanted to do web development, why did you get a physics degree? It's like saying "I want to be a doctor" and then getting a law degree. College is training, and you trained to be an entry level physicist. There are plenty of recent CS grads looking for jobs, and their maj…
A big complaint seen about H1B process is that it's used to import cheap workers instead of great workers - i.e., not increasing USA quality, but allowing employers to decrease average wages by replacing supposedly expensive locals with cheaper H1Bs. There can be a simple solution - instead of measuring requirements for "highly qualified workers" by forced advertisements where companies try to get no 'qualified' peop…
I like your suggestion, though there is a small problem with it. It is hard to find a 100k job if you just got out of the school.
Bring in senior workers with school, experience and proven track record; but for just-out-of school jobs employ the local graduates.
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I like your suggestion, though there is a small problem with it. It is hard to find a 100k job if you just got out of the school.
Is H1B intended for workers just out of school? Should it be? Bring in senior workers with school, experience and proven track record; but for just-out-of school jobs employ the local graduates.