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That will make company like MS/Google/FB/AMAZN, invincible. Startups are going to be starved. They will not have that much leverage to recruit desired talents.
by eva1984 10y ago
That will make company like MS/Google/FB/AMAZN, invincible. Startups are going to be starved. They will not have that much leverage to recruit desired talents.
- fra 10y agoAre you saying startups could not compete without "cheap" H1B labor?! The H1B is explicitly not supposed to bring in cheaper labor.
- michel-slm 10y agoI think what he means is, startups can't deal with the uncertainty and lead times the current H-1B system imposes. Large companies just project how many openings they would have in October next year, hire appropriately, and park them in offshore offices if they didn't make the lottery. And they can afford the application fee too
- eru 10y agoAn auction system would have far less uncertainty.
- eva1984 10y agoBig companies can afford to pay, startups are not.
- vostok 10y agoI don't work for a startup, but I do work for a small business. The current system does not work for us because there is a lot of uncertainty in the application process. An auction system would actually be an improvement for us and many other small businesses.
- eru 10y agoSo what? If big companies are economically more efficient, let them have the workers. Nobody should be forced to work for a poor company that can't pay up. Plus what vostok said.
- kofejnik 10y agootoh, artificially allowing startups to get cheap engineers means that these or some other engineers are deprived of an opportunity to make a lot more money at Google/Facebook. Engineers are thus being exploited by unethical employers flooding the system
- nojvek 10y ago+1 on this. I would really like H1B's to be a bidding system. But guess who lobbies the govt?
- vostok 10y agoThe current system also puts small companies at a disadvantage. I work at a tiny company that pays more than the companies you listed and we have a lot of difficulty getting new H1Bs. If we had an auction style system then at least small companies would have the opportunity to pay more and get access to foreign labor. In the current system, this is not even an option so companies like mine are disadvantaged with no recourse. Startups could always hire native workers or hire foreign workers offshore.