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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 s73v3r »

vdaniuk wrote: post #75
mseebach wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 qua…

I quite disagree with the premise of this quote for the following reason. When commercial product is being built, external requirements and interests are imposed on founders and their aspirations to create interesting/innovative software will be subverted by the need to compromise. However, the essay addresses this problem. The engineers have the opportunity not to take outside investments and run their companies as…

You're missing the point: They still would have to run the business. Meaning, not do what they set out in life to do, namely engineering. Where they are, they can pretty much just focus on the problems at hand and do research. All of the other crap is done for them.

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

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Post by rhc2104 »

ryandrake wrote: post #225
drewg123 wrote: post #50

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That's not an unreasonable total compensation level for senior engineers in the bay area. Remember that Netflix does not typically offer bonuses, stock grants, etc, and just pays people a salary. While most other big tech companies (eg, Google) have salary as 1/2 to 3/4 of your total compensation, with the remainder being bonus and stock grants (or options). So in the Google table here, you will see far lower salarie…

Reasonable would be anywhere close to average. $350K is very much an outlier. It has to be. For every "senior software engineer" you show me making $350K, I'll show you 20 making less than $100K. $350K is insanely great, we're talking top-2% territory. This seems to happen all the time in the comments here. Someone points out some insane top salary they found at some insane top company, and a bunch of people chime in…

So Senior Software Engineers at Google make about 250k in total compensation.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engin...

Now, 250k isn't 350k, but 350k is the high end of Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, and that's what Staff Software Engineers at Google make.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Staff-Software-Engine...

Staff Software Engineers are "extra senior engineers" that are on the same HR level as engineering managers. I don't think Netflix makes this distinction.

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

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Post by vdaniuk »

s73v3r wrote: post #241
vdaniuk wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I quite disagree with the premise of this quote for the following reason. When commercial product is being built, external requirements and interests are imposed on founders and their aspirations to create interesting/innovative software will be subverted by the need to compromise. However, the essay addresses this problem. The engineers have the opportunity not to take outside investments and run their companies as…

You're missing the point: They still would have to run the business. Meaning, not do what they set out in life to do, namely engineering. Where they are, they can pretty much just focus on the problems at hand and do research. All of the other crap is done for them.

As someone who transitioned from 100% business/marketing side to 25% business and 75% development, actually I am not missing the point.

There are many upsides to running and owning a tech business and for some of the engineers those upsides can outweigh the negatives.

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

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Post by lgieron »

joering2 wrote: post #236
ajays wrote: post #202

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Netflix? Senior Software Engineer, $375K.

Serious question. What kind of skills of knowledge or experience do you have to have so that you take more than quarter million of dollars??? Incredible!!

For a company like Netflix, my guess is, you need to be a world-class expert at some area of scalable backends and/or big data. For example, you need to be a core contributor (in terms of concepts, architecture etc. - not just coding) to projects like Kafka, Cassandra, Spark etc.

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

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Post by formulaT »

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.

Netflix engineers are better than the average engineer (even in a given job title), so the prevailing wage calculations don't represent the true economics.

But in any case, H1-B visas can lower the wages of engineers without H1-B holders earning less than Americans. It's just like any import. The import itself doesn't have to be sold for cheaper, it's just that the presence of the import lowers the price via competition, so that both the import and the local good are cheaper than the price before importing started.

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

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Post by gfarkas »

I recently started toying with the idea of moving to the US so this seems immensely useful.

By the way, does anyone know a good blog post or something on the process of applying for H1B jobs? I don't have a clear picture on how the whole thing works at this pont.

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

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Post by sjg007 »

refurb wrote: post #212
philsnow wrote: post #164

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what does "status: withdrawn" mean ?

It means the petition was withdrawn. My guess is that that person left the company.

They probably misfiled the LCA at 1m and re filed at 100k.

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

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Post by sjg007 »

product50 wrote: post #181
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.

Looks as if you are looking at some different data set than we all are. Check out Netflix, Google, Twitter etc. - these are more than competitive rates. Unless you went into bodyshop companies like TCS, Infosys etc. to make yourself feel angry.

Infosys seems to classify everyone as a technology lead. They don't have any software engineers!
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