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by eshvk 14y ago
> The starting salary is higher for someone with a bachelors degree in Computer Science then a Masters degree in Computer Science in the US (I'm trying to find the book). In fact it holds true for several degrees. The reasoning is that
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by eshvk 14y ago
Factually incorrect, if you are talking about software engineering positions. Source: College career fairs. BigCos come and recruit people in hordes. Around 60-70% of people graduating from UT, Austin went to a BigCo (Google, MS, Amazon etc
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by eshvk 14y ago
This article is amazing. I haven't finished reading it completely but as a person who spend significant parts of my childhood in multiple countries, there are parts of it which chime with me so well. E.g. > Recent research has shown th
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by eshvk 14y ago
Yes, Google is working on world changing problems. You are also incorrect in thinking that all Facebook is doing is work on social networking. They have so huge an engineering challenge that there are enough interesting problems. However, t
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by eshvk 14y ago
I think the logic behind corporate financing/lobbying is that if you allow individuals to contribute money separately, there is no reason why organized groups should not band together, analyze the election, choose a candidate and pay $100 f
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by eshvk 14y ago
There are well paid jobs in the U.S. robotics market. However, most of them require a U.S. citizenship and security clearance (defense grants.).
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by eshvk 14y ago
Yes, I am uncomfortable with the implied reverse racism here too (Not sure if that was OP was intent...).
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by eshvk 14y ago
The IITs take a bunch of smart people in. These are people who have the necessary drive, intelligence to succeed in any environment. That doesn't necessarily mean the institute itself is good or something. As far as the rest of education sy
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am not sure whether this is what the parent meant. I mean one way of looking at it is that the more people from completely different backgrounds do things, the more interesting the work gets. E.g. it is possible that some people (teens, w
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by eshvk 14y ago
Counter perspective: I used to work in robotics and really the majority of the jobs are in defense or defense related. There are a handful (less now that willow garage is closing down) of robotics companies that do civilian work. Sometimes
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by eshvk 14y ago
It is actually not that simple. I mean if it was, we wouldn't have countless reams of paper devoted to how to learn and comprehend better. Everyone comprehends things differently and sometime different perspectives help. I thought the artic
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by eshvk 14y ago
I don't work for Google. However, I have never heard of their interview process involving trivia factoids. There are several other companies in the valley that are guilty of this crap but Google at least focuses on algorithm questions, scal
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This reminds me so much of so many software engineering interviews.
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Yeah, I have been incredibly impressed by how good their digest email is designed. I am sure there is a serious amount of cherry picking (or machine learning) that goes into them but they are damn good, I say.
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by eshvk 14y ago
I don't agree with the author's opinion on the New York times's block being inherently evil. I am unsure of how else they could make money. The block is not hard to circumvent if you know enough to clear cookies. It is designed to give you
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by eshvk 14y ago
> However, there's nothing like being allowed to quit your job and take a new one to ensure that you really are being compensated properly for your skills. I'd take that over various regulations meant to "protect" me any day of the week
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by eshvk 14y ago
> As explained almost everywhere, losing your job under an H1B visa is a huge pain. This is exactly my problem with the H1B. The solution to this is not to have a glut of more H1Bs but to make the H1B a job portable six year visa much l
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Many of the easily circumvented protections (such as the prevailing wage requirement) would be unnecessary if the worker is allowed to quit his or her job without jeopardizing residency rights. I thought the prevailing wage requiremen
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by eshvk 14y ago
This is an excellent point. There are enough engineers out there who reach a certain stage in their life (kids, family, bored of stupid "benefits" like xbox, free lunches and worthless stock options) basically say fuck you, pay me. It is no
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by eshvk 14y ago
> And I know many startups that are eager to get visas for people they want to hire, and would have zero interest in having employees that felt trapped at their company. The problem is not that an employee would feel trapped but the nat
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> About half of my classmates (in a Statistics PhD program) are foreigners. These are literally the brightest statisticians of their year from their respective countries, and making it even the least bit hard for them to stay in the US
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by eshvk 14y ago
> (b) I would think that having a PhD would help qualify you for the top-level executive roles. Although, frankly, I've looked at company websites, and top-level executives with PhDs are not _that_ common, even in software companies. Bu
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by eshvk 14y ago
> I'm just interested in your experience of doing just that. I've found very little reference material on it, except some comments by professors and people currently working in industry that people are courted by companies once they fin
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by eshvk 14y ago
> 1) people who got a software developer job with the H1B visa. How many companies you contacted? When did you contact them? Is February too late? Were you interviewed remotely or at their US office? Getting a job like @pbiggar said is
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Firstly, to clarify the process. You can actually prepare the docs and apply anytime, its just that there is a quota of 65,000 (+ 20000 extra if you have a Masters degree), and its done on a first-come first-serve basis. For the past
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by eshvk 14y ago
> As a sidenote, I think getting a PhD increases your likelihood of getting an otherwise unlikely outcome in the sense of career success/advancement, getting rich, etc. (unless you choose academia). I mean, over the course of your caree
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by eshvk 14y ago
I know people from two groups: 1) People who have non C.S. degrees even from good schools. Once you have finished your degree, you have three months to find a job. Some people don't find a job within those three months and are forced to lea
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by eshvk 14y ago
> You can do EB-1, EB-2 only if you first acquire a H-1B visa. Wrt which you wrote: "Acquiring a H1B visa to work in the United States is not hard. When, I (a foreign born student) graduated and applied for an H1B visa, it took ten days
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am not convinced it is incredibly hard for a tech PhD student who has done quality research from a good school to stay in the U.S. There are two options currently: 1. EB-1: A visa given to an alien of extraordinary ability. The requiremen

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