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I'm wondering where the data came from and how accurate it it is. "In 2012 the Oregon software industry gave jobs to 38 foreign software engineers." Ok so here I am assuming you mean 38 new H1B engineers were hired in 2012. There is no way that could be true, I nearly hired and processed that many H1Bs personally in 2012. I was working with several others with similar or higher numbers. And that's just one company in…
Not sure how you would do that.
Alternatively, you could look at what % raise a former H1-b visa holder receives when he gets his greencard. I heard it can be 2x-3x, but I've never seen a formal analysis.
I would say 20% is probably the higher end of increase, if any.
I'm wondering where the data came from and how accurate it it is. "In 2012 the Oregon software industry gave jobs to 38 foreign software engineers." Ok so here I am assuming you mean 38 new H1B engineers were hired in 2012. There is no way that could be true, I nearly hired and processed that many H1Bs personally in 2012. I was working with several others with similar or higher numbers. And that's just one company in…
I'm wondering where the data came from and how accurate it it is. "In 2012 the Oregon software industry gave jobs to 38 foreign software engineers." Ok so here I am assuming you mean 38 new H1B engineers were hired in 2012. There is no way that could be true, I nearly hired and processed that many H1Bs personally in 2012. I was working with several others with similar or higher numbers. And that's just one company in…
I looked at the website briefly, but wasn't sure how he was able to aggregate all of the data.
FYI: the visualization doesn't load if you're using adblock or uBlock.
I would like to see the 'value' taken from the point of view of the employer; how much is an H1B visa worth in terms of cost savings over a local employee?
Filing fees are high ($5k+ over 6 years), as is the cost in lawyers (probably similar), auditing, and time consumption. It is impossible to keep an employee on H1-B indefinitely, so generally they will also go through the Green Card process, which is also expensive and time consuming.
Generally companies will offer a relocation package, which is also very expensive when it's international, and have partnerships with banks (having zero US credit sucks) and other services to get employees settled.
The idea that hiring an H1-B is a cost-saver is utterly bunk, and needs to stop spreading. (Other than fraud)
"The best city for software managers was Vancouver with an average salary of $183,500" Is it because it's in Canadian dollars?
even if it was, that's still $145,970
I'm wondering where the data came from and how accurate it it is. "In 2012 the Oregon software industry gave jobs to 38 foreign software engineers." Ok so here I am assuming you mean 38 new H1B engineers were hired in 2012. There is no way that could be true, I nearly hired and processed that many H1Bs personally in 2012. I was working with several others with similar or higher numbers. And that's just one company in…
This gets to the rub of prevailing wage. You are hiring a developer, do you call her an engineer where the prevailing wage is 87k or do you call her a programmer where the prevailing wage is 61k? This type of fraud is difficult to prove and there probably isn't even anyone responsible in the government to verify or investigate issues. EDIT: forgot to mention that the prevailing wage can be determined by salary survey…
I have known plenty of developers who may be great at coding a task but fall flat when architecting the same systems. There are often tradeoffs that must be made for business or technology purposes. These tradeoffs are generally product or engineering decisions that i would hesitate having a developer make. There are just functional differences between developing software and engineering it. The sooner the software i…
Edit: other than that, what you seem to be speaking of is more about experience. An experienced "developer" will have a better time at architecting a solution than an inexperienced "engineer".