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"It looks like Stripe has decided hiring foreign workers is the only solution to the problem instead of trying to find another solution." That makes no sense.
by pc 14y ago
"It looks like Stripe has decided hiring foreign workers is the only solution to the problem instead of trying to find another solution."
That makes no sense. Hiring people from outside the US is harder, slower, and more expensive than hiring US citizens.
We just care a lot about working with the best people, and we're willing to spend months obtaining visas for them in order to do that.
- basiceconomics 14y agoLiar.
- jquery 14y agoWhat do you mean by the "best" people? Are there not people in the USA that would work for you, who fit your qualifications? If they won't, why not? Think about it, stop trying to fool us with your red herring about wanting the "best". What you really want is the "best" at prices competitive with the "average" American. One might almost think you were getting them for cheap. Hmm
- btilly 14y agoGiven the quality of work that Stripe is known for, I strongly suspect that in their case "best" really means "the best they can find for what they are trying to do." Which is what you'd want it to mean. If Stripe was known for producing lots of subtly substandard work, I'd have a very different impression of them.
- enraged_camel 14y ago"Hiring foreign workers for cheap" is a myth. The US Labor Department has specific laws that it strongly enforces to ensure foreign workers cannot be hired below market rates.
- jquery 14y agoYou know how they get around this, right? They simply change the title. I.e., they hire a senior engineer and slap them with a mid-level title. If you haven't seen that happen, you haven't been paying attention. There's also the more important and salient benefit of hiring H1-Bs--the strong bond it creates between the employee and their visa status. You'd have to pay a US citizen much more to make them sign such an onerous and one-sided contract.