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> You confuse skill with high salary. Skill is too difficult to define objectively and it's probably not what you should be discriminating on anyways (in a pur
by olalonde 10y ago
> You confuse skill with high salary.
Skill is too difficult to define objectively and it's probably not what you should be discriminating on anyways (in a purely economic sense).
What you need to go for is "valuable" (scarce and in demand) engineers and salary is a decent proxy for that (more so than formal education). You also don't want the government to "evaluate" engineers because doing a good job at that would mean, pretty much by definition, selecting the very same engineers companies elect to hire.
- ohyes 10y agoBut unfortunately salaries fluctuate across the country. The same engineer might make 100k in Cleveland and 150k+ in Silicon Valley. What might make sense is having the h1b attached to the immigrant, no strings attached for 5-10 years. Firms would make sure to pay them market rate, because they don't want them to walk, and additionally would only hire actually necessary workers, because they're making the same as anyone else in the country. The real issue is that h1b establishes a time period of essentially indentured servitude to the employee.