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For the USA, you can't attain an H1-B / E-3 / <other work visa for SWE or other technical role> without your employer compensating you above the prevailing wage
by genidoi 4y ago
For the USA, you can't attain an H1-B / E-3 / <other work visa for SWE or other technical role> without your employer compensating you above the prevailing wage[0] (determined by the DoL) paid in the city you are being hired in in the field you are being hired in.
[0] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/wages#:~:text=The%20prevailing%20wage%20rate%20is,the%20area%20of%20intended%20employment https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/wages#:~:text....
- rejectfinite 4y agoIs that real in practice? I have heard they can just claim "oh we cant find anyone!" and get someone for cheaper abroad. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-h-1b-visas-have-been-abused-since-the-beginning/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-h-1b-visas-have-been-abused... "But this week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Bill Whitaker reports that the H-1B visa program has since been seriously abused, allowing companies to fire American workers and to bring in cheap foreign labor."
- ThrowawayB7 4y agoNo H1-B engineer at a FAANG class company is going to tolerate getting less compensation than their peers and their managers, many of them former H1-Bs as well, would not tolerate giving them less compensation either. Pichai at Google and Nadella at Microsoft are themselves non-US born engineers who have climbed their way to the top. The body shops are a different story but this is about Meta.