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Re:The next US president won’t be great for H-1B visas by 908B64B197 on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:04PM (#24739840)
> They may be valid points, but it is unreasonable to expect that another industry can compete salary-wise against FAANG at the moment, and it doesn't make their inability to find candidates locally any less true.

Even if they stopped doing stock buy-backs?

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Re:The next US president won’t be great for H-1B visas by nrmitchi on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:08PM (#24739870)
Which industries (non-tech) do you think are doing so many stock buy-backs that if they stopped, they would be paying FAANG level salaries to other H1-B qualifying professions?
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Re:The next US president won’t be great for H-1B visas by sokoloff on Saturday October 10, 2020 @07:36PM (#24742718)
And if they stopped doing buybacks, what makes anyone think that money would go to employee expenses rather than other forms of shareholder returns?
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