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If you look at it from a more negative perspective though, lobbying for more H1-B visas is an even more effective way to decrease engineer compensation, because
by lhc- 13y ago
If you look at it from a more negative perspective though, lobbying for more H1-B visas is an even more effective way to decrease engineer compensation, because you can reduce your salaries further by increasing the pressure on US engineers by threatening them (implicitly or explicitly) with losing their jobs to cheap foreign labor. One could easily argue it looks like two sides of the same coin: using every dirty trick available to avoid paying engineers according to their actual value to the company
- icambron 13y agoI'm completely willing to believe that big companies have poor intentions when lobbying the government. H1-Bs are just more market distortion. (I personally believe we should just hand software engineers green cards at the airport and remove the cheapness from foreign labor. More engineers, but without the bullshit.) I'm just saying it doesn't make the engineer shortage less real. All the ways you hold down salaries are ways that companies are dodging honestly dealing with a legit shortage.