Re:Laid-off IT workers muzzled as H-1B debate heats up
by xiaoma on Friday January 29, 2016 @08:23PM
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Both of those factors are Amazon's choice. I really don't see how Amazon would be any more "screwed" by not getting H1-B employees they won't pay a competitive salary to than they are in not getting US citizens they won't pay a competitive salary to. In fact, if they find the prices too high, they could always hire locals!
They could also expand their presence in their SF office, if somehow an area costing a lot to live in would become an advantage. Unless there's an assumption that Amazon has some sort of unalienable right to hire foreign workers at less than local market rates, there really isn't anything unfair about it.
> It also incentivizes putting as much of the compensation in salary as possible, and as little as possible in other benefits.
Both of these to a pretty ridiculous degree. You would have issues with companies like Amazon (who pay reasonably well and so far as I know don't abuse the H1-B system) getting screwed because they either don't pay as much in cash (they like a stock heavy comp model) or because they aren't paying people bay area money.