H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads

Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by ReptileMan on Saturday January 26, 2019 @05:22AM (#19005708)

From my point of view - both excluding you from the job market or giving you general purpose work visa are better for the rest of the people in your industry(with second option better for you of course). Than work permit depending on sponsorship.

If you are valuable enough to work in US, you are valuable enough to do it as a full market participant without shackles or handicaps.

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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by repsilat on Saturday January 26, 2019 @09:51AM (#19006493)

Exactly. The reason startup salaries are low is that the companies don't have the cash to pay. If they had customers who believed in them they would have cash. If they had investors who believed in them they would have cash.

Asking the government to let in someone whose company might eventually make it big enough to pay "the going rate" is asking the government to take a risk -- it's like asking them to invest in the company on the promise that the payoff will be as good or better than the next person in line.

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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by vowelless on Saturday January 26, 2019 @02:38PM (#19007982)

Actually, we were very proud of being bootstrapped and not selling stake to an investor. But perhaps that is not a big deal to other people, so I can see your point.

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