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androidsixteen
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The main thing I believe about the current skilled immigration debate: The H-1B visa is a very bad implementation of a very good idea I don’t know if the USA has the political will to build a better merit-based immigration system (the current system is from 1952) That’s fundamentally what we ought to be discussing IMO
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EmpiricalLagrange
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Fundamentally it’s used as a mechanism to suppress wages. American workers compete with people who’ll work for less and can’t leave (big part of negotiating salary). There could be a way to have high skilled immigration but not have them tied to a particular company
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jtgi
@jtgi
My direct experience hiring 30 or so roles in the Bay Area during zirp era is anyone needing a visa is deprioritized. They have to be extra ordinarily good to get an interview and perform very well to get an offer because the process is slow, expensive and unpredictable. Good tech companies actually have (had?) a shortage of good people. Maybe it’s different across mid tier companies in the USA. There are definitely very sus shell companies like infosys, cognizant, and tata. But I don’t think it’s binary at all.
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czar
@czar
This is also my experience. At least in the Bay Area, we hired H1Bs not because of low wages or them not able to leave. It was always because of the talent.
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Noun 839
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This was also my experience. It's also very expensive to get someone a Visa and at least in my experience that person was offered market rate, so in the end it was much more expensive than hiring a US Citizen with ongoing legal expenses.
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