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horns4lyfe
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horns4lyfe
9mo ago
Because traditional car companies aren’t interested in buying software that they can’t get built by cheap contractors. Tesla actually hires high end engineers to build software, and that’s not cheap.
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horns4lyfe
10mo ago
If you read the article that’s not at all what they’re saying.
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horns4lyfe
11mo ago
IBM is just an Indian labor arbitrage company at this point, why anyone believes they’re capable of this type Id advancement is beyond me
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
What do you want to do? Send in troops from somewhere else to die too?
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
If you’ve ever worked with Indian outsourcing firms it’s not
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
Insurance companies have become cartoonishly evil. It’s going to get really nasty out there at some point.
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
Seriously? The entire article was just calling out obvious problems while tapdancing around the heinous possibility of (gasp!) blaming liberals for any of it
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
Pretty weak to go through all of this and not mention immigration and outsourcing as the control mechanisms
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
They’re being cheap. None of it is vertically integrated and it’s all outsourced to the cheapest third world contractor they can find.
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
Because the whole point is that it’s cheap labor. Cheap labor is inherently inferior
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
Conservatives aren’t allowed media outlets on campuses? There are plenty of left-leaning ones.
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
What a strange thing to say on a non-religious thread. The worlds not a movie
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
lol no that’s exactly what he’s saying, you just can’t read between the lines
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
Is there a world out there where we could treat people like humans instead of “resources”? How far up the chain do you have to go to find the gross people making these decisions?
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
They could start by prioritizing hiring americans
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
Ya they’re all old lawyers
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
Write LinkedIn style slop posts I guess
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
This is a great read. Just hilariously unserious people
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
And it’s still not enough to buy houses close to the offices. So something is wrong
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
Half of the interviews out there are designed to be gameable enough to block out US citizens at will in favor of visa holders anyway
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
The issues around H1B visas are ruining American work culture and have been for some time. TBH, it’s already captured and I think it’s too late to fix it
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
You honestly don’t think they already do that as much as possible?
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
It’s by salary. Individuals don’t pay for it, the company sponsoring them does. Did you even read the article?
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
That’s not an H1B, there are other visas for that
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
Oh no they’ll have to hire and train American college grads!!
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
If you read the article, that’s pretty much what its going to
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
Did you read the article? H1B isn’t going out, it just isn’t random anymore
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
That’s a good point, although of you’ve interviewed at big tech, plenty of times they’re just treating it like a standardized test.
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
The problem is that the more we go in that direction, the more hiring in this industry rewards gamifying and grinding, and that bleeds into the profession as a whole. And at that point it’s just not worth working there
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horns4lyfe
1y ago
You don’t have to take it that far
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