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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by toephu2 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:39PM (#13532970)
"Everyone can learn how to code, it's not a real science." Yes but not everyone who learns to code can get a job coding. Not everyone can get into Google or Facebook just cause they learned to code. The software engineering interviews don't test your ability to code, they test your ability to problem solve w/ data structures & algorithms.
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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by WildUtah on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:08PM (#13534711)
If you live in middle America flyover country it's hard to get any tech job. And the H1-B program is making it a lot harder.
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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by smsm42 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:35PM (#13535468)
If you think banning access to international talent will make next startup owner to set up shop in Omaha, you are sadly mistaken. It'll be Toronto, or Vancouver.
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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by dukeluke on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @06:33PM (#13536511)
If you think there won't be people that would try to start businesses in America, you are sadly mistaken.
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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by smsm42 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @01:57AM (#13538913)
Of course there would be. There are people trying to start business in Somalia, US is not that bad :) It's just there would be less of them, and when they hit the limitations they'd tend to move to places where such limitations do not exist.
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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:54AM (#13541134)
>If you live in middle America flyover country it's hard to get any tech job.

Mind, that might have something to do with middle America having defunded its state university systems, making skilled labor difficult to produce. We live in an economy where gluts of unskilled labor are a very bad thing for productivity, and it's about time state governments got that through their damned heads.

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