New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas

Re:New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas by gaius on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:39AM (#17615092)

whose appeal is not specialization but simply being cheap

If there was genuinely a shortage of tech workers there would be no ageism (or any other sort of -ism) nor would there be these elaborate multi-day hoop-jumping interviews.

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Re:New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas by dmode on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:41AM (#17615759)

If there was such an abundance of talent, why does Google pay $125k for entry level SW jobs ? And why is SW engineering such a highly paid position ?

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Re:New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas by gaius on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:58AM (#17615823)

Outside of a handful of companies in Silly Valley tech is just another office job and less well paid than law, accounting, MBAs and most other professionals. No one ever says there’s a desperate shortage of corporate lawyers and we need special visas to import more!

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Re:New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas by TheCoelacanth on Thursday July 26, 2018 @01:22PM (#17619127)

> No one ever says there’s a desperate shortage of corporate lawyers and we need special visas to import more!

Yes, they do. It's called the H-1B visa. Lawyers, accountants, financial analysts, physicians, surgeons, management consultants, architects, journalists, school teachers, nurses and many other occupations qualify for H-1B visas.

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Re:New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas by dmode on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:43PM (#17620888)

If lawyers and doctors were in abundance, their wages will reflect that

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Re:New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas by runamok on Saturday July 28, 2018 @07:55PM (#17635693)

Lawyers' salaries have actually gone bimodal and there is a glut.

One ref: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/05/09/the-lawyer-bu...

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Re:New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas by akhilcacharya on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:26AM (#17615694)

Why? There is a legitimate reason for having a high hiring bar. Obviously this doesn’t make ageism or discrimination acceptable of course.

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Re:New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas by gaius on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:36AM (#17615734)

There is a legitimate reason for having a high hiring bar.

The “bar” is not representative at all of the nature of the work is why. It’s artificially high in order to eliminate a glut of candidates early in the process.

I remember when there was a genuine shortage of tech workers - the dotcom boom. Hiring and compensation reflected that there was high demand and competition to hire. Outside of a very few niches now, the economics (law of supply and demand) simply don’t show it.

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Re:New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas by akhilcacharya on Friday July 27, 2018 @02:20AM (#17623871)

>Outside of a very few niches now, the economics (law of supply and demand) simply don’t show it.

Undergrads (not me though) can make $225k out of school now easily, is that not showing it?

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Re:New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas by commandlinefan on Thursday July 26, 2018 @09:50AM (#17617465)

If we were actually hard to come by, we wouldn't be crammed elbow-to-elbow in noisy open offices like herds of cattle.

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