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Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Post by joshz »

negrit wrote: post #5
ma2rten wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks this is way better than existing sites. I did notice that searching for Google gives you 5 different entities that are all Google.

Yes I am still cleaning the data. It's all unbelievable the amount of crap you can find in the public records. I have a lot of duplicates unfortunately. Down the road, I'm planning on providing a couple of cool charts/map about trends and evolutions.

Check out Open Refine. Has a feature that clusters similar strings and unifies. I remember last time I looked at this data set... 4 letter acronyms spelled 12 different ways, it's unbelievably messy.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Post by Lawtonfogle »

maxcasey wrote: post #35
Lawtonfogle wrote: post #26

Check out Wal Mart during year 2002. Either there is some interesting story or the data has a problem. Average salary goes up by about 50 times before dropping back down by about as much the next year. Edit: Being there are so many Wal Marts, I mean this one. http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/wal-mart-associates-inc

Where? http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/walmart-com Don't see 2002

The other Wal Mart. http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/wal-mart-associates-inc

Actually, there are quite a few Wal Marts.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Post by g4m8i7 »

tdees40 wrote: post #32

I work in finance, and browsing this list reinforces the assumption that people on H-1Bs are just cheap labor for employers. Most people on this list whose positions I can determine with confidence seem to make 10-20% too little.

Check Netflix. Most of their H1Bs are making far greater than prevailing wage for their positions.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Post by rand334 »

g4m8i7 wrote: post #54
tdees40 wrote: post #32

I work in finance, and browsing this list reinforces the assumption that people on H-1Bs are just cheap labor for employers. Most people on this list whose positions I can determine with confidence seem to make 10-20% too little.

Check Netflix. Most of their H1Bs are making far greater than prevailing wage for their positions.

Yeah, is this data right? Why do they have Software and UX people making over $250k?

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Post by onion2k »

Really interesting project. If you look at small but relatively well known companies, eg Magic Leap[1], it's possible to get some real insight in to where they're focusing their efforts.

[1] http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/magic-leap-inc/2015

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Post by sgrove »

tdees40 wrote: post #32

I work in finance, and browsing this list reinforces the assumption that people on H-1Bs are just cheap labor for employers. Most people on this list whose positions I can determine with confidence seem to make 10-20% too little.

Doesn't seem to be the case for engineering positions, from checking out a few employers in the bay area.

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Post by mseebach »

vdaniuk wrote: post #30
tdees40 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nevermind, there's one making $1.5M. I just stopped looking too early.

I understand that highly compensated engineers get to solve unique challenges on grand scale, enjoy their jobs and are generally content with their professional positions. But I just can't stop wishing for those engineers using their immense knowledge, authority and financial resources to bootstrap own tech companies and improve the diversity of the tech ecosystem. They don't need venture backing, they don't have pre…

The pg essay quote seems to have gone out of fashion here a bit lately, but there's a perfect one for this occasion:

> So one way to build great software is to start your own startup. There are two problems with this, though. One is that in a startup you have to do so much besides write software. At Viaweb I considered myself lucky if I got to hack a quarter of the time. And the things I had to do the other three quarters of the time ranged from tedious to terrifying. I have a benchmark for this, because I once had to leave a board meeting to have some cavities filled. I remember sitting back in the dentist's chair, waiting for the drill, and feeling like I was on vacation.

http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html

Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

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Post by ojbyrne »

rand334 wrote: post #55
g4m8i7 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check Netflix. Most of their H1Bs are making far greater than prevailing wage for their positions.

Yeah, is this data right? Why do they have Software and UX people making over $250k?

It's fairly common knowledge in Silicon Valley that Netflix salaries are insane.
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