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They won't hire you but are begging to get more H1b workers...
by gscott 13y ago
They won't hire you but are begging to get more H1b workers...
- adoggman 13y agoHe didn't fit their needs. If he doesn't and H-1B workers do, they should get the job.
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- grej 13y agoYeah because with the engineer crunch and all, there clearly just aren't quality folks out there. :-\
- smsm42 13y agoUnfortunately, there aren't. Or, rather, there are, but not easy to find and not so many. Not enough for the amount of work that is out there.
- vonmoltke 13y agoBullshit. If you are turning down people for "culture fit" or perceived ramp-up time, there is no shortage.
- smsm42 13y agoYou are assuming "culture fit" is just an excuse to interview somebody, waste all that valuable time on evaluating them and then reject them under a transparent ruse. Why would a company do that, where's a upside in that? Culture fit is a real thing and if the person does not fit the team, it would be an expensive mistake to hire that person. Shortage of talent does not mean the company would hire anybody. It just means it is hard to find people that they want to hire. There could be plenty of people that they don't want to hire, still.
- xacaxulu 13y agoLet's drive down wages first with lots of visas and companies colluding to not recruit amongst themselves.
- cenhyperion 13y agoYou're aware Jan, the CEO and other founder, is a Ukrainian immigrant, right?
- gscott 13y agoMy point was more that he was here, is good enough to get past all of the phone screens, probably did pretty well in person, but was passed over. My thinking is more that large companies with many open positions might want to consider the person for another position at least.
- prostoalex 13y agoIn 2007 Facebook was not in the club of "large companies with many open positions", just another startup on University Avenue with some series B in the bag.
- pm90 13y ago...and therefore would have even more of an incentive to hire local.
- prostoalex 13y agoWhich they did http://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/231332 http://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/231332
- graviboots 13y agoI'll second this. I recently interviewed at a bunch of companies and couldn't get any offers. The interviews are getting ridiculous - we all know how pointless the coding questions are getting by now. Companies are too picky, in part because there's so much labor supply. I know there are loads of H1Bs around here, SV is like a third-world country.
- prostoalex 13y agoStartups are picky, large employers are less so. Try Cisco or Intel.
- _pmf_ 13y ago> Startups are picky, large employers are less so. Try Cisco or Intel. I hope this is sarcasm.
- karl_nerd 13y agoif your comment is intented to mean 'foreigners are coming over stealing our jobs', feel free to leave it as it is. Otherwise, you might wanna rephrase what you wrote..
- alexeisadeski3 13y ago>SV is like a third-world country ???
- jonny_eh 13y ago
- JamesArgo 13y agoYeah, how awful it would be for America if the world's brightest become citizens.
- 001sky 13y agoIndentured Servantry sounds like a plan B. NBD is H1-B fails.
- michaelt 13y agoI'm all for the best and brightest becoming citizens, but we should offer visas for the most in-demand, high salary professions first. We can tell from salaries that the shortage of CEOs, lawyers and hedge fund managers is much more acute than the shortage of programmers and engineers.
- kyllo 13y agoSince when do CEOs, lawyers, and hedge fund managers ever have visa problems? Certain categories of US visas can basically be bought, but it is not cheap.
- TallGuyShort 13y agoI think michaelt was being ironic.
- talmand 13y agoI would think you are responding to a sarcastic comment.
- chongli 13y agoI don't know about lawyers and hedge fund managers but CEOs are able to manipulate their own pay and avoid accountability due to their position of power within a company. The labour market has no bearing on someone who effectively writes their own paycheck.
- crassus 13y agoAlong with 10 million physical laborers, just to kick in the teeth of the middle class a bit more. The middle-class doesn't benefit Silicon Valley. Cheap nannies on the other hand...