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Re: Immigration is about talent, not costs

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Look HNers, let's be honest with each other. There's a lot of H1B's on here. You have friends overseas who you want to see succeed in the Bay Area. In my experience at many tech companies in the Bay Area, H1B Visas exist for one reason, and one reason only - to get skilled engineering/STEM labor -- and to exploit connections (primarily Indian/Pakistani) among these workers to continue to get cheap labor. It absolutel…

I got a H-1B visa. I was living in Ireland at the time. But, as it turned out, I never moved to the US. It was for a compiler position at Borland. I ended up working remotely for the next 6 years or so, first for a year as a contractor at a 6 figure Euro rate, then later as a salaried employee after I moved to London. They flew me over two to four times a year to keep up to date with the team. I collectively lived ov…

Tough Luck

You can always find someone provided you are willing to pay for it.

You simply are NOT entitled to hire anyone you want.

Here is a solution.

Charge an annual employee licensing fee of $25K a year to employ that special individual you can't find anywhere else.

Not willing to pay an annual licensing fee then the job simply doesn't get done.

Problem solved.

Re: Immigration is about talent, not costs

#642
If H1-B holders could freely change employers then I'm pretty sure that Amazon for one would be a better place to work. As far as I could tell they could only get away with treating engineers like they did because the latter had nowhere else to go (the vast majority are H1-B holders, not because of any local shortage, I suspect, but because they are so exploitable).

Re: Immigration is about talent, not costs

#643
I went through IT trade school and no one was interested in how well I could program a router, switch, or how well I could manage an exchange server, GPO, or any of that bullshit. They want senior everything, when I was a junior. Can't find senior in the USA? Go to another country for it and lobby hard for it.

Companies no longer need to invest in the local population, like they use to, they do enough spending billions in Washington DC. Why not bitch and moan about not enough H1-B or any other green card crap?

Here is proof that the tech industry doesn't give a flying rats ass about the USA and why I want out. Lobbying figures per company.

2014 ------- Google Inc $13,050,000 Facebook Inc $7,350,000 Microsoft Corp $6,080,000 Oracle Corp $4,860,000 Hewlett-Packard $3,939,000 Entertainment Software Assn $3,821,138 IBM Corp $3,800,000 Amazon.com $3,190,000 Apple Inc $2,920,000 Intel Corp $2,822,000

2013 ------- Google Inc $14,060,000 Microsoft Corp $10,490,000 Oracle Corp $7,190,000 Hewlett-Packard $6,921,692 Facebook Inc $6,430,000 IBM Corp $5,950,000 Entertainment Software Assn $5,210,000 Intel Corp $4,393,750 Amazon.com $3,456,831

Apparently they make too much money and trying to buy Washington like every other industry. But people in the USA are too dumb to want to shake the system.

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