Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants

Post by mcguire » Tue, Feb 07, 2017, 1:07 AM UTC

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If you start out making much less than other candidates, even after many years of CoL raises you will still be making less. Source: drastically underpaid for my experience because I was an idiot.

At one of the big Silicon Valley tech companies? Google at least has a policy that promotions & annual raises normalize to level-defined salary bands, i.e. if you have a higher salary coming in relative to your coworkers of equal skill, you will get smaller raises until your salaries equalize.

Post by mywittyname » Tue, Feb 07, 2017, 1:14 AM UTC

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It's possible that he's trying to stick it to Silicon Valley as payback. Technology salaries are probably a drop in the bucket cost-wise compared to the profits that will be made from deregulation of the industry. So while Goldman might have to pay a few million more in salaries, it's offset by the billions more in profits that they will rake in (over the short-term, until they destroy the economy again, that is). Te…

I don't think so (sticking it to SV). He was threatening to reform the H-1B visa program during his campaign.

Post by davidf18 » Tue, Feb 07, 2017, 1:46 AM UTC

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> but he's knee deep in corruptive patterns. Well, you might be right, but it helps to cite evidence to your assertions.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/goldman-sachs-power-wh...

Post by chetanahuja » Tue, Feb 07, 2017, 2:07 AM UTC

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"The Masters in US is gamed too. Many of those students are the ones who could not clear the campus interviews of Infosys, Cognizant or Accenture when they were in the college for Bachelors. So they come to "study" MS in the US so that they can get into the H1B system easily." I don't mind a bit of cynicism but this is absurd. Why the hell is "study" in scare quotes? It's a pretty standard thing for fresh graduates t…

How about IITians from India, getting high quality education for free using Indian tax payers money and moving to US. Someone coming off the free education that the Indian government provided using Indian tax payers money should keep quiet and should be ashamed of himself to be called a silicon valley employer. You are welcome - An Indian tax payer.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 07, 2017, 2:27 AM UTC

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Google is one of the few companies hiring H1B's for their true purpose. If you look at where most of these visas are going it's clear that a large majority are low quality jobs. It's a disservice to the brilliant visa holders I know as well as US citizens. it's extremely hard for them to get a job at a good company because so many of the visas are getting soaked up by those abusing the system. If there was a huge eng…

I'm not saying the H1B system isn't abused. It absolutely is, and should be reformed. What I'm disputing is this notion that there's no shortage of qualified developers. There absolutely is—that's why you see substantial salary growth for senior engineers. What exactly do you think bootcamps are? They're outsourced developer training programs whose entire business model depends on the high tech salaries.