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by throwaway7783 2y ago
In a utopian world, probably. Societies are complex, and humans are still very tribal. Any large influx of new population changes everything significantly, for good and for worse. And there will be resistance to change. Intermixing of cultu
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
Yes, I don't disagree. The answer was in the context of the other poster changing "deserve" to "want"
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
>> the fair wage they deserve . That was the context. Your post before this changed it to "want". I was responding to that. Nothing to do with non-americans feeling they deserve more either. It was about why americans fee
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
So they learned their lesson and hopefully don't make the same mistake again. We are in anecdote land now (both yours and mine), I don't know what's more common. Behavior like that (waiting for long for perfect candidate) can
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
Not really. Countries like India are very large (population-wise) and have a very thriving domestic technology scene with a LOT of good talent. Not all of them want to migrate to other countries just for money. For the CoL in India, they ar
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
Each can compensate for the other only to an extent. We don't need top notch, we need good. Most large scale projects may fail, but we ended up assembling good people for all the rewrites. Five of the six projects were successful (in p
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
It is indeed subjective. But since I have hired both good american and non-american engineers consistently over long periods, I tend to think it is not unrealistic. I completely agree large scale abuse of the program must be stopped. No cou
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
That is a sweeping statement. They (or should I say "We") are no worse than anybody else. If your point is that "worse" people should not come in to the country on H1B because H1b is meant for "better" people,
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
They know how I work, because I'm on the board and constantly update them. I built this company from slides to 5M ARR in 4 years. Granted, I have made hiring mistakes - good engineer, bad attitude that affected the team, good engineer
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
I hate leet code and it's ilk, and I don't want anyone to go through that useless stuff. But I believe a good engineer can suss out another good engineer in a conversation or two. At least that has been my experience with people I
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
I don't think anyone is saying wait for the perfect candidate. No one is perfect and no one checks all the boxes. That would be a fool's errand. But most good engineers can differentiate between a good (not superstar) engineer and
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
It's not at all about doing hard things. It's simply the number of things to be done and how they interact with each other. You are absolutely right that these are technically not hard problems, but they're still hard design
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
Most products can be built with mediocre talent. But no one actively goes after mediocre talent. And yes, startups are more sensitive to this, I really had to let go mediocre people because it affects everything. Throwing meat at the proble
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
I mean, If I have an India or LATAM presence, why would I hire in the US at all, even H1Bs? Unemployment rates mean nothing if its a skills job. Eng #1 is not the same as Eng #2. You can see this plainly in interviews. Our hit rate for engi
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
Okay, I have interviewed hundreds of people in the last decade, and I can tell you that most are not good enough. There are companies that are downright abusing H1B for wage suppression, but as a startup founder, I will try my hardest to
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
Sure, there is nothing non-americans can do about it. But want!=deserve
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
I have a hard time hiring an American too, especially for backend jobs. But thats because they simply don't apply to the open positions we have. We don't disclose salary upfront, so the argument that "you pay less thats why&
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by throwaway7783 2y ago
I have been on H1B forever now, and my salaries have been more or on par with the role. I tend to agree there is a lot of H1B misuse, especially by large Indian consulting firms. This needs to be curtailed. But, there may be 300,000 unemplo
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by throwaway7783 5y ago
GP might've meant AOT
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by throwaway7783 5y ago
Oh, these cloud kids... Edit: instant downvotes. Okay, S3/GCS/Azure is the typical answer (egress costs be damned)
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by throwaway7783 5y ago
Right. The line of thinking around "criminals are victims of circumstances" has always stumped me. It completely marginalizes the actual victims of crime, "property damage is no big deal, covered by insurance". I wonder
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by throwaway7783 5y ago
I'm yet to see this magic happen anywhere in the world. Also doesn't address repeat offenders. The purpose of the criminal justice system is enforcement, judiciary and corrections. You are talking about just corrections. I don&#x2
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by throwaway7783 5y ago
How does this stop the next thief from doing the same? Looks like I will loose everytime and the thief has no consequences other than someone analyzing why they did it? Who cares about my loss? Keep in mind, I'm not advocating putting
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by throwaway7783 5y ago
I have zero sympathy for someone who stole a $200 necklace that my mother gifted my wife, as a token of remembrance and melted it to get some gold. $200 is not an issue. The memories associated with that artifact, the legacy - That is the i
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by throwaway7783 5y ago
Heh, the thread is amusing. A few days back there was another thread discussing true mortality rate of COVID in India and a lot of support for how deviation from base rates are a fairly good indicator. When it comes to the US...