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Right now H1B is a lottery with country specific quotas? Could we think of a worse way to choose people to bring in? Let's make it an auction. Let the bids tel
by cheriot 10y ago
Right now H1B is a lottery with country specific quotas? Could we think of a worse way to choose people to bring in?
Let's make it an auction. Let the bids tell us which skills are in highest demand and use the proceeds for scholarships and training of citizens in those jobs. Think H1B fees funding computer science scholarships. And at least with an auction we'll bring in higher quality workers that will contribute more to our economy (relative to a random selection).
Second, the catch-22 on why brown people hating politicians can't solve the problem: To make companies prefer foreign workers less we have to protect those workers better. Make it easier for them to change jobs and harder to force them into long hours without pay.
- acchow 10y ago> Right now H1B is a lottery with country specific quotas? I'm pretty sure the H1B lottery is evenly distributed. Are you thinking of the green card lottery?
- adharmad 10y agoIt is a lottery if H-1B filings are oversubscribed in any calendar year. However, there are no country specific quotas AFAIK.
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- jon_richards 10y agoI'm not too familiar with the H1B system, but one of the issues I have with the idea of an auction is that it hurts startups who are willing to give up a lot of equity but not much cash to an employee.
- c0g 10y agoEven if the equity was taken into account most startup equity (once you read the terms and conditions) is worth ~0. There's a few bigexits warping thenfigures but the median is pretty low.
- bhickey 10y agoToday a huge portion of H1Bs are get assigned to body shops who then provide labor to large companies. I'm more concerned with worker exploitation than I am with a few startups who as missing out today, potentially missing out tomorrow.
- jacques_chester 10y ago> Right now H1B is a lottery with country specific quotas? Is it? You may be confusing it with the diversity visa lottery, which is weighted by country of origin.
- vijayr 10y agoMake it easier for them to change jobs This is the most important of all. Also let them be free agents and even work for themselves if they choose to. That is how it is in other countries like Canada, Australia etc.
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- qaq 10y agoThis is actually a very good idea making it an auction :)
- scient 10y agoAs some of the commenters before have mentioned - its a lottery when the # of applications exceeds the quota. And it has nothing to do with country of origin.
- cheriot 10y agoMaybe I'm wrong about the country limits affecting H1B. Does anyone know more about this? https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/country-limit https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/country-limit