Updates to H-1B

Re:Updates to H-1B by bdangubic on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @03:38PM (#42454869)

there is limited number of H1B visas that are issued each year (as if I have to even say this)... so they won't make a dent if you are correct with "the huge numbers of US developers currently looking for work."

we abolish the program and boom, 65k people out of this apparently HUGE number of US developers looking for work won't make a dent... so this argument holds absolutely no water ...

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Re:Updates to H-1B by _DeadFred_ on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @04:16PM (#42455324)

...other than... you know... the entire point of the H1B visa program... is to get talent the US DOESN'T already have ...

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Re:Updates to H-1B by bdangubic on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @04:44PM (#42455703)

I am not arguing the merits/purpose of the program. just the silly that this program is affecting US population tech (un)employment

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Re:Updates to H-1B by Aperocky on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @05:38PM (#42456252)

Well, if there aren't such programs people like Elon or Satya and Pichai might have never started out. You look at them as being successful and exceptional today (regardless of some of the more questionable antics and decisions), when they just started, it's hard to argue that you can't find similar, exceptional talent in the US.

But if you shut off that valve, they would not be here 25 years later.

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Re:Updates to H-1B by slaw on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @07:33PM (#42457083)

Elon, Satya and Pichai didn't arrive on H1B visa.

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Re:Updates to H-1B by fragmede on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @08:44PM (#42457492)

Interestingly, Staya Nadella did use the H1B program, in an unconventional way.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-o...

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