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Keep in mind that Twitter engineers are under extreme pressure, knowing that their H1B visas are at stake, to implement Elon’s whims as quickly as possible on s
by rideontime 3y ago
Keep in mind that Twitter engineers are under extreme pressure, knowing that their H1B visas are at stake, to implement Elon’s whims as quickly as possible on systems they’re unfamiliar with. I doubt many of us would perform better in their situation.
- xyzzyz 3y agoDo you know how many current Twitter engineers are on H1B? Is this based on some data, or just speculation?
- morelisp 3y agoAround 300. https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5px/twitter-employees-on-visas-cant-just-quit https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5px/twitter-employees-on-...
- lolinder 3y agoThat's all employees, not just engineers.
- georgeecollins 3y agoDo you think twitter has a lot of marketers, PR, product managers under H1B? I don't have data, but in the tech companies I have worked at it engineers were the H1B visa holders, almost exclusively.
- alephnerd 3y agoThey absolutely have a number of PMs on work visas. I'm friends with a lot of them.
- kibwen 3y agoH1-B is for "highly skilled" workers, what skilled workers would Twitter have other than developers?
- mikequinlan 3y ago"fashion models of distinguished merit and ability" https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b
- booi 3y agoI would imagine the vast majority of those are engineers. It’s pretty hard to get an H1B in a non technical field and I’m not sure Twitter would even have many of those types of jobs.
- morelisp 3y agoYou can look at the NAICS codes, the overwhelming majority are 54.
- lmeyerov 3y agoSo maybe 20-30% of dev, which would be overrepresented here?
- bialpio 3y agoI think that may be outdated. Searching at https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employe... yields around 60 applications in 2023 (but note that I'm not sure how things are counted given that H-1B is valid for 3 years).
- morelisp 3y agoThe year is also only half over.
- bialpio 3y agoIIRC the H-1B application period is some time in the first half of April every year (so all the ones that would be filed this year have already been filed), but IDK if renewals need to catch that train. Edit: clarifications.
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- morelisp 3y agoH-1B approval has two stages, the registration period (March/April) and the petition period (ends 90 days after post-registration selection). AIUI this is counting petitions (i.e. I-129s), so won't be accurate until at least 90 days after selection notices - which would be around now - but then the site itself says it can further trail by a quarter.
- cactusplant7374 3y agoYou can access H1B job titles and salaries. It's public.
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- timeon 3y ago> when Reddit told you to Is this projection?
- bheadmaster 3y agoNope, but apparenly I hit a nerve.
- dcunit3d 3y agoI tried to point this out below. It's not even a DDoS, it's fake news. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36561808 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36561808 it's a 429 error, so the developer who posted this is an idiot. they're not even wrong. the 429 doesn't even touch twitter's infrastructure. the HTTPS TLS terminates at a Google VM, which gets relayed depending on the VIP used to hit it, but the traffic never gets past that Google VM. This is literally /HOW/ companies deal with DDOS. https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2019/expand-the-edge https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc... it's unbelievable that my median salary for the past decade is $3,000 after several years of "Startup" followed by "How to Start a Reboot of My Life"