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Re:Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse? by illumin8 on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @09:39AM (#1890364)
You can't hire an H1B unless you are willing to document that you were unable to find local talent that had the required skill set. HR departments usually work around this by wording the job requirement in such a way that only their hand-picked H1B applicant has every exact skill. "Oh, you need a Python/Django/Ruby/Java guy with 2 years .NET? I just happen to have a resume with that exact skill set in front of me; so strange that we wrote the job opening like that...<wink wink>"

Expect to pay about $10-20K extra just to hire an H1B because of all of this extra paperwork and documentation, as well as hope he wins the H1B lottery.

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Re:Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse? by hga on Thursday November 11, 2010 @10:21AM (#1894048)
WRT to the lottery: it hasn't been so competitive lately: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Quotas_and_changes_in...

E.g. (note that the fun begins on April 1):

FY 2009, quota used up in 7 days before beginning the lottery (and as you allude to, this sort of thing used to be the norm).

FY 2010, quota not used up until December 21, 2009.

FY 2011, quota projected to used up right about now.

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Re:Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse? by kaiwren on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @03:19PM (#1891667)
Leave just the core business people in the first world and move everyone else to the third world. Finding good engineers is a lot harder, though, and they won't be as cheap as you'd think. In India, for example, you can expect to pay roughly 1/3 of what you'd pay in the US for a good dev. SlideShare.net does this to the best of my knowledge.
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Re:Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse? by GFischer on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @10:45AM (#1890640)
I was thinking more along the lines of hiring people or teams for working remotely (which has its own set of problems, but it's still cheaper and could get better talent).
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