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> If that was the case then FAANG wouldn't be filled with Asians and engineers from ex-Soviet countries. The makeup of high paying tech companies does not repre
by RNCTX 5y ago
> If that was the case then FAANG wouldn't be filled with Asians and engineers from ex-Soviet countries. The makeup of high paying tech companies does not represent in any way the makeup of the American population. I posit the reason this is the case is American culture and anti-intellectualism.
In a land where money buys everything, you think culture is the reason why a thing exists or doesn't exist? I think you're drinking too much of your own ideological kool aid.
High paying tech companies want to pay less, so they recruit internationally to not be so high paying. Along the same lines, American kids with the access to generational wealth to do whatever they want find it more lucrative to choose some other more localized field of work that doesn't compete with indentured servitude (H1s) for wages.
- slt2021 5y agodo you really think that FAANG companies want to pay less? they are already top paying employers, i think you are mistaken
- BirdieNZ 5y agoIt wasn't that long ago that FAANG got caught for rigging the labour market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... Obviously FAANG (and most companies) want to pay as little as possible for their labour. They don't pay $500,000 for senior engineers because of their innate generosity and desire to pay them well. They pay that much because they have to if they want to attract and retain the employees they are looking for.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago"do you really think that FAANG companies want to pay less?" That's the basic premise of markets. Conversely, they are posting huge profits, why don't they pat even more?
- amusedcyclist 5y agoH1B's in Big tech are about as far from indentured servants as you can imagine, they're in high demand and switch jobs for better pay constantly. American kids with access to generational wealth aren't as interested in difficult technical subjects.
- RNCTX 5y ago> H1B's in Big tech are about as far from indentured servants as you can imagine False. > they're in high demand and switch jobs for better pay constantly. And each time they do so, their new employer has to go through the entire process of getting them a new H1 visa. When your right to be in a place is dependent upon your labor to a specific contracted employer, you are an indentured servant.
- slt2021 5y ago>new employer has to go through the entire process of getting them a new H1 visa. this is not true, saying this as a person on h1 who changed jobs easily. when talking about indentured servants you are probably referring to small Indian IT bodyshops, that keep people on low wages due to them being on a very long green card queue, but this has nothing to do with H1 per se. These people do not work in big tech
- rsj_hn 5y ago> I posit the reason this is the case is American culture and anti-intellectualism. Or perhaps awful schools