techk

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   by techk 6y ago

   World internet population is 4.5 billion and ~1 billion live in China.
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   Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise edition, snaps up Walmart as a customer(techcrunch.com)

   1 points by techk 9y ago|0 comments
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   by techk 10y ago

   I agree that clients prefer/want their consultants onsite and many of the companies won't compromise on this. But for the ones where cost is the primary factor, they would just keep the critical people onsite. (Onsite coordinator,
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   by techk 10y ago

   Junior engineers filling up the quota is actually preventing senior engineers from getting through. There is always demand for high quality senior engineers, and companies like more choice.
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   by techk 10y ago

   You are partly right. Protectionism may work for jobs which need physical presence or security clearance. (lawyers, doctors, teachers, government/defense/aviation employees). But I am not so sure it will work for Tech jobs, which
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   by techk 10y ago

   No matter how you frame the issue, call it an abuse, or try to solve it, I don't think anything will change other than some minor adjustments. Jobs are not going to magically appear or wages rise. India/China has a huge supply of
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   by techk 10y ago

   You are right. For the 85K visas, there were ~240K applications. If 30% of them were for senior engineers, then with these new stricter directives all 85K visas go to them, thereby increasing the supply of senior engineers. Otherwise there