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by dmode 7y ago
Honestly, in a way, it is almost two sides of the same coin. Warren knows that breaking up a company will not pass muster through Congress, and we will settle on a compromise which is a VAT. On the other hand, if you start with a VAT, the c
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by dmode 7y ago
Excellent start from Twitter.
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by dmode 7y ago
Seems like a non story. Tesla prioritizing global growth and sacrificing some local demand.
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by dmode 7y ago
Are you suggesting that the massive wage inflation that happened in SV over the last 10 years , combined with the massive increase in real estate prices, in a place where H1 are probably 50% of eng workforce is an example of not getting rai
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by dmode 7y ago
Completely incorrect. H1 employees in SV have a lot of mobility as there are hundreds of thousands of jobs available that sponsor your visa. And your visa can be transferred under 15 days. You don’t even have to quit your previous employer
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by dmode 7y ago
No company will hire a person, even a Nobel laureate if they have to pay 50k in taxes for that person. Do you understand global mobility? That person will simply be hired in Canada or Europe. Then there will be a ripple effect as there will
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by dmode 7y ago
I am very confused about your post. Are you saying that an engineer receiving $150k in base pay today, will suddenly work for $75k tomorrow? Are you also suggesting that there will be two class of engineers, one getting paid 75k and another
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by dmode 7y ago
H1B is the first step towards a permanent visa because it is dual intent
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by dmode 7y ago
So are you saying that you cannot lay off sales people if they have data scientists on H1 ? Got it
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by dmode 7y ago
May be they are better informed than you, as you clearly are not
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by dmode 7y ago
Are you suggesting a $125k base salary (which is most likely for a fresh grad), with addition of bonus, and equal RSUs, which is very likely a TC of $180k, cheap labor ?
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by dmode 7y ago
Yeah, that would nicely solve the problem by moving even more jobs to another country.
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by dmode 7y ago
This is extraordinarily wrong. There are no allocations. Lottery only happens for first time H1 workers. But the number represented here includes first times, renewals, transfers. etc. There is no concept of allocations
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by dmode 7y ago
In the context of SV, 100% of employers sponsor H1 visa. So you can literally walk to the next building, interview and have an offer by the next day. And get an approval in 15 days, and start working. I am exaggerating a little, but there a
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by dmode 7y ago
Why would anyone be extradited ? Did they violate some international law ?
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by dmode 7y ago
First of all, we need to get facts correct. They didn't lay off one year and increase H1b the next year. They had a total approval of 299 visas in 2019. Which means, some of them were approved in Jan and others may have been approved i
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by dmode 7y ago
What does have got to do with mobility ? In fact, it makes you more mobile. As you need to keep improving your skills and not being beholden to a single employer who can lay you off.
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by dmode 7y ago
Lol, you can quit and go to another employer, no ?
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by dmode 7y ago
Do you have references to back this up ? Or did you just make it up ?
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by dmode 7y ago
You are 100% accurate. This publication has no idea how visas work but constantly publishes click bait article to trigger the outrage machine
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by dmode 7y ago
You need to better research and educate yourself about H1 wages and mobility before throwing around words like "slave"
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by dmode 7y ago
Can you explain the restrictions ? Especially in the context of software engineer and Silicon Valley
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by dmode 7y ago
You can tell me. I spent years with immigration as a former H1B holder, who knows a lot of people on H1. But I am happy to hear more
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by dmode 7y ago
These are base salaries. Now filter your list by software engineer and San Francisco. Median base salary is close $150k. Now add yearly bonus and Uber's RSUs and see how many have total comp >200k. Cheap labor narrative violated. Ed
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by dmode 7y ago
100% of SV companies sponsor H1 visas. And there are no tight timelines or anything. Sometimes you can run into an RFE that can delay your approval. But RFEs for software engineering are fairly rare
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by dmode 7y ago
Premium processing is available today as it was 5 years ago. Here's the USCIS link https://www.uscis.gov/forms/how-do-i-use-premium-processing-...
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by dmode 7y ago
There is no legal requirement like that. H1 has a simple rule - that you should have a degree and work on a field that USCIS considers specialized. Comp engineering is one of them
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by dmode 7y ago
This is categorically incorrect and you should probably spend 5 mins researching before labeling others as indentured servants. H1B holders have 100% mobility, as it takes <15 days to transfer your visa via premium processing.
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by dmode 7y ago
Dumbest headline ever. I sincerely wish people would stop voting this clickbait rag Mercury News in Hacker News. It says Uber received 299 approvals for the year. First, this is a miniscule number. Second, H1b approval is rolling. So I assu
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by dmode 7y ago
Marin is inaccessible for people who live in South Bay. They will lose out on a lot of senior talent

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