Re:Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hirin...
by romwell on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @08:18PM
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>HA! Not in Bay Area, not for a senior hire. That's a good salary for an engineer that's a few years out of college. Hardly competitive for anything beyond that.
I agree; but 1)it's an average figure, and 2)we don't know how many visa-holding employees are senior; perhaps many of them are a few years out of college.
As I said, we would need more data to argue either way -- unless you say that people a few years out of college may never possess unique skills. In which case I disagree; I've known US citizens with a PhD get this much.
>What software skills are "not available locally" in Silicon Valley that need to be imported from places like India?
I should also add that many (if not the majority) of the people who get a PhD in the US are not US citizens and need a visa.
I agree; but 1)it's an average figure, and 2)we don't know how many visa-holding employees are senior; perhaps many of them are a few years out of college.
As I said, we would need more data to argue either way -- unless you say that people a few years out of college may never possess unique skills. In which case I disagree; I've known US citizens with a PhD get this much.
>What software skills are "not available locally" in Silicon Valley that need to be imported from places like India?
I should also add that many (if not the majority) of the people who get a PhD in the US are not US citizens and need a visa.