How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages

Re:How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engi... by 001sky on Friday January 24, 2014 @12:27AM (#7113478)

This is the dirtly little secret. Even if you hire at "market wages" there are all sorts of ways to exploit the relationship going forward. The power-assymetry this puts the H1B holder in is the opposite of 'negotiating leverage', and one can rest assure that this will not go un-noticed.

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Re:How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engi... by nazka on Friday January 24, 2014 @04:55PM (#7118378)

I am French, my GF is in San Francisco, and I am trying to get a decent company to avoid that. And it's hard... :/

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Re:How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engi... by joshAg on Friday January 24, 2014 @07:19PM (#7119159)

check out riverbed. i'm not h1b, but i had many coworkers there who were and said it was great for h1b workers.

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Re:How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engi... by nazka on Saturday January 25, 2014 @06:21AM (#7120523)

Thank you very much! I appreciate that.

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