Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications
by guywithahat on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:45PM
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The H1B really should have just been an O-1 from the beginning. Being a software or genetics engineer isn't really that interesting, we literally have millions of software engineers, and more genetics engineers than we have good jobs. If someone is truly exceptional than they deserve an O-1, and if you truly can't find any engineers in the US at your salary then maybe you should move overseas.
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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications
by suriya-ganesh on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:24PM
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Might be, but that's how you end up in a situation where all the technical skill is outside the US and the products inside are a marketing layer over technical efforts.
Similar to what ended up happening with china and manufacturing.