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Re: Updates to H-1B

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Post by echoangle »

michaelsshaw wrote: post #449
snakeyjake wrote: post #342

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My employer cannot hire H-1Bs. You must be a US citizen to work for my company. No "US Persons" (visa holders) or foreigners allowed. You have to be eligible for a Secret security clearance. You don't have to get one if you don't want to as there is usually plenty of uncleared work to go around, but you have to be eligible in case that goes away and we need to put you in for a clearance. We cannot find qualified appl…

>You have to be eligible for a Secret security clearance Nope. Not doing it. Not going to argue politics, but this is a huge RED FLAG for a lot of people. And I feel I don't need to submit to mandatory drug testing as well. >The most harmful thing the products I build do is quantify in precise detail how climate change is dooming us all Then why is it classified? How separate is your branch from the weapons branch, t…

> Then why is it classified? How separate is your branch from the weapons branch, that you acknowledge exists?

There's a lot of dual-use stuff that's not used for military applications but could be by another actor. Dual-use means that it could be used for civilian and military applications, not that it actually is.

So if I build a revolutionary weather radar that could be used for military reconnaissance by Iran if the technology came out, but the US military isn't interested because they already have something better, it would be completely civilian but classified.

Re: Updates to H-1B

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Post by jrs235 »

DanielHB wrote: post #842
0086b416f103 wrote: post #454

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> We cannot find qualified applicants. Your company is incompetent. I've applied to hundreds of companies like yours within Huntsville, AL in the past year, rejected or ghosted all the time. Defense morons will talk about how hard their work is and how they can't find anyone to do it. Completely skip over how prevalent affirmative action is in their hiring process; who were you guys interviewing in 2020? Why is the d…

They want top tier talent to work on crappy quality products/code Meaning people who can unravel all the crap they have to maintain but with no agency to enact any sort of long term fix. Plenty of this kind of work going around, the older the codebase is the less willing people are to work on it. Soon good engineers don't want to anymore and mid engineers are not good enough to even tweak it. Leaving the only lever t…

This. "You can't pay me enough to work on something where I have almost no agency to do anything without constantly raising my hand, asking if I can improve something, then having to wait and wait and wait for approval to consistently be told 'No.'". Unless I'm allowed to be free to do other things while waiting or allowed to work remote/asynchronously (not tethered/shackled to a desk/keyboard), then I might be open to doing it, but still for a lot of money to deal with the redtape/bs.

Re: Updates to H-1B

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Post by snake42 »

the_arun wrote: post #652
snake42 wrote: post #553

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For clearance specific kinds of jobs, I use https://www.clearancejobs.com/

Don’t we first need security clearance before applying to these jobs? Or at the time of joining the company helps us to get clearance?

Depends on the company. My company prefers you to have one incoming, but since few people do, we sponsor most people.

Re: Updates to H-1B

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Post by pfannkuchen »

khazhoux wrote: post #689
patrickhogan1 wrote: post #16

Ah, classic regulatory theater. The administration, after 4 years of not introducing these changes, is now suddenly scrambling to roll them out. They’re dropping them right before a major transition, with an implementation timeline conveniently set for after the transition. It’s a clever little maneuver. When the inevitable reversal happens, they can show up at fundraising galas telling donors, “We tried! We were so…

It’s fascinating how many government policies take 3 years and 11 months to implement.

To play devil’s advocate, many if not most software projects that launch on time press right up against the deadline.

Work expands to fill the space available, as they say.

Re: Updates to H-1B

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Post by michaelsshaw »

echoangle wrote: post #871
michaelsshaw wrote: post #449

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>You have to be eligible for a Secret security clearance Nope. Not doing it. Not going to argue politics, but this is a huge RED FLAG for a lot of people. And I feel I don't need to submit to mandatory drug testing as well. >The most harmful thing the products I build do is quantify in precise detail how climate change is dooming us all Then why is it classified? How separate is your branch from the weapons branch, t…

> Then why is it classified? How separate is your branch from the weapons branch, that you acknowledge exists? There's a lot of dual-use stuff that's not used for military applications but could be by another actor. Dual-use means that it could be used for civilian and military applications, not that it actually is. So if I build a revolutionary weather radar that could be used for military reconnaissance by Iran if…

>Dual-use means that it could be used for civilian and military applications, not that it actually is.

This brings forward some cognitive dissonance in me. I love the open source ethics, especially the "ANYONE CAN USE THIS FOR ANY PURPOSE" tagline. But, personally, I do not want any military (especially the US military) to find any usefulness out of my projects. I'm not sure on the legal aspects of it, but if there was an SPDX-License-Identifier for GPL-3.0-NO-MILITARY (or something similar, you get the point), I'd use it on everything.

Re: Updates to H-1B

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Post by albrewer »

m00x wrote: post #739
diob wrote: post #724

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Yeah, it just sounds like the ole "no one wants to work anymore" line when really it's you're not paying enough.

We pay $400-700k for L4-L6 and we have a hard time finding qualified candidates.

I'll take it. My resume probably doesn't match your qualifications, but hey I'm sure you guys are willing to train people up where they're deficient, right? For that kind of pay, I'd never leave - surely me being a drag on productivity for 6 months while I come up to speed is an acceptable trade, right?

Re: Updates to H-1B

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Post by witnesser2 »

I can say sth: - particularly in SC market, the computer science or related areas (almost all JDs have this sentence). The 'related areas' brought in so many in-qualified that even can not answer what is a truth-table (we are not the DOJ). - The whole thing has been abused for decades "."

Re: Updates to H-1B

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Post by witnesser2 »

witnesser2 wrote: post #877

I can say sth: - particularly in SC market, the computer science or related areas (almost all JDs have this sentence). The 'related areas' brought in so many in-qualified that even can not answer what is a truth-table (we are not the DOJ). - The whole thing has been abused for decades "."

Also many anxious parents with children graduated from UC etc with absolute CS,CE degrees staying at home.

Re: Updates to H-1B

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Post by witnesser2 »

witnesser2 wrote: post #877

I can say sth: - particularly in SC market, the computer science or related areas (almost all JDs have this sentence). The 'related areas' brought in so many in-qualified that even can not answer what is a truth-table (we are not the DOJ). - The whole thing has been abused for decades "."

The companies hiring H-1x should publish all job hiring process (interviews, exams questions) at least at closing to all candidates. Thus it is subject to "objective" review.
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