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I like your suggestion, though there is a small problem with it. It is hard to find a 100k job if you just got out of the school.
by abc_lisper 14y ago
I like your suggestion, though there is a small problem with it. It is hard to find a 100k job if you just got out of the school.
- makmanalp 14y agoThis. I'm almost at the 100k mark now (2 years later) but fresh out of college, I wasn't. I still get paid tons above the prevailing wage though. It's just that setting an arbitrary limit is kinda, well, arbitrary. It doesn't take into account any of the differences between jobs / industries. The US needs a lot of engineers in areas where salaries aren't overinflated. I think setting a percentage could be slightly better. Say, 20% above prevailing wages. That has the effect you want.
- mjmahone17 14y agoThe problem is that companies are good at deflating the prevailing wage. Especially those companies that apply for massive amounts of H-1Bs. I'm personally partial to the bidding process (i.e. we will pay this employee $150k if they get this H-1B). This would mean employers that couldn't pay above the H-1B strike price wouldn't qualify. Which I think is probably better than the status quo.
- PeterisP 14y agoIs H1B intended for workers just out of school? Should it be? Bring in senior workers with school, experience and proven track record; but for just-out-of school jobs employ the local graduates.
- abc_lisper 14y agoBelieve me, I went to school here and got my masters from here. I see my bretheren who "worked" out of country who don't know difference between quicksort and mergesort. I am not even talking about stuff like time complexity, turing machines or functional programming. What H-1B shouldn't be is for people who do SAP, business or someother stuff like that; which by the way is what most of H-1s are going for.