Re:Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favo...
by Taylor_OD on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:44PM
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You are over simplifying a bit. Yes it may cost more to hire a H1B due to legal costs but only a small amount more at companies of this size. They have teams of people who handle that.
H1B workers are often paid less that citizens. In the long run it is probably cheaper to hire H1B workers even after the legal costs.
Re:Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favo...
by justapassenger on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:20PM
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> H1B workers are often paid less that citizens
At sweatshops. Not at FAANGs.
Re:Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favo...
by Taylor_OD on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:25AM
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It is more fair at fang but that isnt 100% true. I see a lot of fang offers and they are often lower.
Re:Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favo...
by pzh on Thursday October 21, 2021 @06:58AM
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The majority of H-1B employees at FAANG come on L-1 visas first. There’s no direct comparison because they join the company in a different country and a different market. The bar is not the same as the number of open positions in one market vs the other is not the same.
Bar is the same (of course, there will some bias from specific people, but those are one-offs). Even more - hiring H1Bs is harder than hiring a citizen and it's more costly to the company (immigration sucks). If they could, they wouldn't hire H1Bs.
Equation is different at sweatshops, where you don't hire specific people, that meet specific bars you have. They have no bars - they just need code/ops/qa monkeys. They apply for as many visas as you can, and get whoever they can get as a result. As long as they got enough people, they're happy.