Did anyone check out netflix? You can really see salaries spike in 2012/2013 time frame.
Is this due to the massive wave of VC-fund companies now competing for talent?
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Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#232Be aware this shows the salary as it was when the visa was applied for; which is often many months before the visa (end supposedly, the job) begins. I found myself on here (the only H-1B at my company), and the salary is almost $20k less than what I was being paid by the time the visa stamp actually arrived, and $80k less than today (3 years in). As frustrating as actually going through the US immigration system is,…
Income can be skewed, but also note that employers will often under-report the level of the position that the applicant is working. This is part of the strategy to get through application approval, since one of the criteria for approval is whether or not the person is making more than the average salary for citizens working the same SOC job in the region. You can read more about SOC and see the raw data (disclosure d…
interesting. is that why google only has the main description? almost everyone else list some level along with "software engineer". google doesn't even risk saying "sr."
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it a good indicator of what the company pays entry level positions if the company mostly hires for one specific job. So would you use the Google, Microsoft, etc data as a good indicator of the average start salary of an entry level dev today?
H-1B salaries are actually "pegged" according to the title of each position; they call this the minimum or prevailing wage, and it's specific to an area. For example, if a company is hiring a "senior software developer" in NYC, and the US government considers $120k to be the prevailing salary of a senior software developer in NYC, then the company must pay that person at least that much; Google can't pay any less, ev…
the last level for sofware engineer in california
Level 4 Wage:$52.80 hour - $109,824 year
Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#234I 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.
All imports are "cheap" whether labor, steel or iphones. Cheap is good, because if you can get something cheap it means you can get it with minimal resources.
The only reason to limit immigration is externalities. For example, Israel has very open immigration for Jews. It does not allow open immigration for African refugees because they believe it would have a negative impact on their society. For some strange reason, other nations are fearful of stating the same thing, but they clearly have something like this in mind when they limit immigration.
Cheap labor is a net positive. The only valid reason to oppose immigration (and I think it is very valid) is the negative social externalities that immigration causes.
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
For $300k+ I'll take on some risk.
If you're a US person, why not... But for someone who needs H1B sponsoring and relocation (probably with a family as well), Netflix is the worst company to work for as your first American employer.
Why, specifically? ... I came to Netflix on a H-1B, and they have been awesome. But if there are specific concerns (eg, no grace period in case of termination? something else?) I'd be interested to know what they were.
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#236Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is senseless, you dont need citizen control to check that the salaries are prevailing wages, that is a job that can be done by the government with multiple different agencies at a very low level of cost or risk. Also, it doesnt make sense because it doesnt include US employees salary of the same companies which is what you need to make that fair/unfair comparison. Even worse, the immigrants themselves can't make…
You obviously don't know anything about the US government. Without transparency there is corruption. Why do you think everyone is upset over the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal being done in secret? The US government can not be trusted. The most recent example of this: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/19/pentagon-was...
The only information in this case relevant to check is the salary itself. You can avoid the company name entirely, have only title and location, and get that information as well, and that protects the identity of foreign workers considerably.
Re: Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
#238For all the H-1B is "cheap labor complains" the fact that this information is public is horrible. Its a very asymetric relationship with your colleagues. If this were really meant to be about transparent controls, it should be tied to the wages of the other employees. Cant believe there isnt a single comment about privacy issues regarding this here. EDIT: after scrolling a bit I did find some. Kudos to that conversat…
This information is all publicly available already. Nothing new other than the interface.
If you think a site like this has no effect because the information is already there, you should think its absolutely useless.
But its not, because it does have an effect. And that effect is negative for a lot of people who are being treated different for their nationality.
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#239Earlier 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…
Speaking as an above average engineer, but not one of the super spectacular, I envy the work-life balance that many of these get to achieve, avoiding a lot of the slavish work tech startups often put them through. Even if they funded out of pocket, it would be a long hours, market pressured situation, where enough VC or big company money can still bury you despite brilliance.
I'm honestly not surprised some choose the good life at a big company - the world often doesn't treat such skilled people well.
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
It means the petition was withdrawn. My guess is that that person left the company.
I actually think it means they decide to no make go further with the LCA. Like they decided to finally not hire the employee or the employee decided to not work for this company anymore.
Actually that makes more sense. It is possible to be working on another visa while a company files the LCA for you (TN, L, visas, etc), but it's probably less likely than a new H1-B hire.