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11% unemployment for CS majors. Absolute insanity to be admitting H1Bs for the tech sector right now.
by polski-g 1y ago
11% unemployment for CS majors. Absolute insanity to be admitting H1Bs for the tech sector right now.
- breadwinner 1y agoAgree, for ordinary CS jobs, there's plenty of workers available right now, thanks to AI. But for highly specialized jobs including AI research, you still need to be able to hire immigrant talent.
- geye1234 1y agoThere's the O-1 for that.
- breadwinner 1y agoO-1 is not enough. For jobs requiring bachelors degree, there is currently plenty of US-born workers looking for jobs. For jobs requiring masters and PhD there is still a need for H-1B visas, and O-1 is too high a bar.
- geye1234 1y agoFine, so there are some that fall below the O-1 bar. Nonetheless, those are a drop in the ocean compared to the regular $150k jobs being lost to H1Bs.
- cmxch 1y agoWe don’t.
- ryaniscool 1y agoI feel like this $100k fee is specifically for this type of uniquely skilled worker. If they are that in demand, then $100k is not a significant amount of money. There was recently an article in the New York Times about AI experts getting more than star athletes.
- geye1234 1y agoImmigration benefits capital and hurts labor, but big business has hypnotized the left into supporting it.
- warkdarrior 1y agoThe new H1B fee effectively puts a cap on software engineer pay. I can hire an immigrant on H1B for $150k/year ($50k salary + $100k fee). So local hires better be cheaper than that.
- what 1y agoWhy do you think the H1B will work for 50k/year? Where are you located?
- stainforth 1y agoWouldn't it be more clear to say that for hiring approach, now the unexpected burden of tagging on a new 100k fee works as a negative coloring (as it I think intends (ostensibly)) to these candidates then? How was the 100k already priced in?
- ryaniscool 1y agoI'm not following. So you're saying the cap on engineers' salaries follows a rule of H1B visa fee + $50k? Doesn't that mean that cap has increased?
- afiori 1y agothey are saying that a H1B worker is in practice gonna get paid 100k less, cost 100k more to the employer, or something in between.