You seem to confirm my theory that it is easier to land a job as a H1-B than as a US citizen.
Could it be that H1-Bs have firmly and thoroughly infiltrated the corporate world that the hiring manager would prefer to hire someone of their race, religion, culture, etc? Or that because of the corporations and managers are willing to shell out the excessive amount of money to hire a foreigner over an American for guaranteed six years of service and no job hopping? Turn overs are expensive. It takes probably one year for someone regardless of background to get completely up to speed. If that person leave at the end of one year, I wouldn't have gotten back my return on investment. But six, and at which point you can hire someone cheaper to start over, sure, that sounds a lot better!
We all know that the white HR team have no say in who the manager decides to hire. The manager at this point in time is more likely going to be a) Indian or b) white but thoroughly believes in saving his own ass by hiring replaceable H1-Bs.
That's great that your service is 1/4 the cost of AWS, but do you have a data center in Europe that I can run my apps on? How about South America, Asia Pacific? Yeah, it may cost more, but I get to have my apps and services running in all major geographies so that customer can actually have a good experience. Can you provide that kind of service at your current price point?
I wish it is a law for H1B employers to disclose the percentage of their company who are on H1B visas. I don't have a problem with foreigners, per se, but I don't trust that the reverse is not true - that those H1Bs are not going to bring their old world rivalries and discrimination against me. Especially with most of the H1Bs coming from the same country, India, there is a strong monoculture forming in these places that I would rather avoid. Interviews don't really tell the whole story because they can always select who they want you to meet during the brief time you have there.
I just checked - NASDAQ is up significantly over DOW and S&P500, just like the dot-com days (98-99), whereas for the most part between 2001 and 2008, NASDAQ was on the same level as the other indices.
Why do people consistently forget that there are two kinds of H1-Bs and mix them up in the same context all the time.
You have the 65,000 for the foreign workers. And there is the 20,000 for U.S. educated graduate students.
Facebook, MSFT, Google, etc want the U.S. educated foreigners. They are usually better and are better to work with because they have had 1.5 to 5 years of acclimatization. The 65,000? Run hard if it's one in the 65,000 who also got a U.S. MBA, which just reinforces their "I deserve this" attitude, plundering jobs from the U.S. while hiring more H1-Bs.
We can do without the 65,000.
And even 20,000 might be too much. That's the number of student enrolled in 8 elite Ivy league schools, combined, each year. source
The cost of credit card transactions are nowhere near zero. Transaction processing in any form is not cheap, even at high volumes. There are significant costs for both on the front end (credit card machines + computers + accounting + banking fees), and on the back end (computers, customer service, accounting, security (yeah, ironic I know), billing, payment transaction costs, marketing, and more).
Some of those things you have listed (credit card machines, computers, more computers) are fixed cost and should not be factored into transaction fees, which are a variable cost.
What's strange is why is the fee a percent? It should cost more to process a $10,000 purchase than a $1.59 stick of gun.
I recently graduated with a masters and many years after college, so I was not as naive as I was. The administrators are worthless and each of them earning a great salary for doing almost zero work. Once a year they review the applications and figure out who gets in and whatnot. Then they don't really do anything for the rest of the year. And you think your professor are altruistic and doing because he cares about the youth? No, the professor is top dog at the university. The smaller salary compared to their private sector counter-parts is easily offset by the power and influence they wield. And I would think that they probably make more than a private sector person, after factoring the reports they are commissioned to write. Each and every one of the engineer professor at this top-8 engineering school had a SBIR shop on the side where they are on the board. The company's business model is to bid on DoD Small Business Innovation Grants. I worked at one that has been in existence for 10+ years, never ever trying to use that grant to develop any commercial solutions (because that takes work and is risky!), but rather collecting the various 6 digital loans they get, pay their freshly graduated Ph.D. student (H1-Bs) a measly salary and pocket most of the grant money.
On top of that you are paying for these professors to be condescending towards you, for the administrators to not give a shit about you. Why? If you pay for a product or a service, shouldn't you demand a certain level of service? Not with Universities!
Good for you. But perhaps that's why there are so many startups? If I have no experience and can't get a job, I might as well start a company and get the experience myself.
That is assuming you have rich parents or can get VC funding.
Yeah and given the lackluster employment options to our college-bound or recent college graduates, it's no surprise that more are looking into CS where unemployment is still relatively low. Absolutely correct on H1-B and outsourcing too.
I was laid off 5 years ago and I saw a lot of citizens and greencard holders also get laid off. But not one single H1-B was laid off.
I would be more in favor of H1-B immigration if it allows the immigrants to be on the same playing field. But it's not. And for some perverted reason they actually have better job security than American workers.
I know a few H1-Bs who survived the recession, got to night school for MBAs, and are now program managers on the way up - hiring more H1-Bs from their home country and not hiring workers from other countries. If the H1-B system was not fundamentally broken we would have a more equal representation of immigrants from all over the world - Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, Ukraine, etc. But no, we have a monoculture, and while we are playing fair, they are not.
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It's so true and I wish I have gone to learn something else AND gotten a job doing that something else. Once an engineer, that's all people see when I apply for other jobs.
I wish it was that easy. Two teens grabbed my phone when I was waiting for a bus and smacked me in the head. I chased them down and eventually got bystanders to help. One of the bystanders took good pictures with his phone of both. After making a deal with them saying that I wouldn't call the cops but they just need to return my phone, they dithered looking around in the bushes and grass saying they couldn't find it. I gave up. I ended up sending those pictures to the police but no arrests or anything have been made. And I think it would be fairly easy work - send the pictures out to each school in the area and see if any one recognizes the teens. They can even do this in person if they were concerned about privacy.
Nope. The police are worthless. The only way to be safe is to understand that you are not and spot threats and avoid situations that could lead to danger and avoid them.
Great points. But in reality no job is safe unless you are born into the rich elite. Those blue collar jobs have already been taken by illegals. My friend wanted to go into landscaping but found that there were no jobs for him after he finished a 3 year master program.
This is why the elite are in an endless grab for money because the middle class is disappearing and you really need to be born into a millionaire family to have a chance.
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You seem to confirm my theory that it is easier to land a job as a H1-B than as a US citizen.
Could it be that H1-Bs have firmly and thoroughly infiltrated the corporate world that the hiring manager would prefer to hire someone of their race, religion, culture, etc? Or that because of the corporations and managers are willing to shell out the excessive amount of money to hire a foreigner over an American for guaranteed six years of service and no job hopping? Turn overs are expensive. It takes probably one year for someone regardless of background to get completely up to speed. If that person leave at the end of one year, I wouldn't have gotten back my return on investment. But six, and at which point you can hire someone cheaper to start over, sure, that sounds a lot better!
We all know that the white HR team have no say in who the manager decides to hire. The manager at this point in time is more likely going to be a) Indian or b) white but thoroughly believes in saving his own ass by hiring replaceable H1-Bs.
Not to mention all of your supposed "friends" avoid you like the plague once you have no work.
And since both parties are controlled by corporations, they both support H1-Bs.
We're not a democracy and corporations control the government. We have no say.
That's great that your service is 1/4 the cost of AWS, but do you have a data center in Europe that I can run my apps on? How about South America, Asia Pacific? Yeah, it may cost more, but I get to have my apps and services running in all major geographies so that customer can actually have a good experience. Can you provide that kind of service at your current price point?
It doesn't look like country of origin is a required disclosure and I don't think companies voluntarily discloses information that it doesn't need to.
http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/co...
I wish it is a law for H1B employers to disclose the percentage of their company who are on H1B visas. I don't have a problem with foreigners, per se, but I don't trust that the reverse is not true - that those H1Bs are not going to bring their old world rivalries and discrimination against me. Especially with most of the H1Bs coming from the same country, India, there is a strong monoculture forming in these places that I would rather avoid. Interviews don't really tell the whole story because they can always select who they want you to meet during the brief time you have there.
I just checked - NASDAQ is up significantly over DOW and S&P500, just like the dot-com days (98-99), whereas for the most part between 2001 and 2008, NASDAQ was on the same level as the other indices.
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Why do people consistently forget that there are two kinds of H1-Bs and mix them up in the same context all the time.
You have the 65,000 for the foreign workers.
And there is the 20,000 for U.S. educated graduate students.
Facebook, MSFT, Google, etc want the U.S. educated foreigners. They are usually better and are better to work with because they have had 1.5 to 5 years of acclimatization. The 65,000? Run hard if it's one in the 65,000 who also got a U.S. MBA, which just reinforces their "I deserve this" attitude, plundering jobs from the U.S. while hiring more H1-Bs.
We can do without the 65,000.
And even 20,000 might be too much. That's the number of student enrolled in 8 elite Ivy league schools, combined, each year. source
The cost of credit card transactions are nowhere near zero. Transaction processing in any form is not cheap, even at high volumes. There are significant costs for both on the front end (credit card machines + computers + accounting + banking fees), and on the back end (computers, customer service, accounting, security (yeah, ironic I know), billing, payment transaction costs, marketing, and more).
Some of those things you have listed (credit card machines, computers, more computers) are fixed cost and should not be factored into transaction fees, which are a variable cost.
What's strange is why is the fee a percent? It should cost more to process a $10,000 purchase than a $1.59 stick of gun.
I didn't know soldering some electronics together and porting a language to a platform is Ph.D. level work.
Hack is to PHP as Typescript is to Javascript?
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I recently graduated with a masters and many years after college, so I was not as naive as I was. The administrators are worthless and each of them earning a great salary for doing almost zero work. Once a year they review the applications and figure out who gets in and whatnot. Then they don't really do anything for the rest of the year. And you think your professor are altruistic and doing because he cares about the youth? No, the professor is top dog at the university. The smaller salary compared to their private sector counter-parts is easily offset by the power and influence they wield. And I would think that they probably make more than a private sector person, after factoring the reports they are commissioned to write. Each and every one of the engineer professor at this top-8 engineering school had a SBIR shop on the side where they are on the board. The company's business model is to bid on DoD Small Business Innovation Grants. I worked at one that has been in existence for 10+ years, never ever trying to use that grant to develop any commercial solutions (because that takes work and is risky!), but rather collecting the various 6 digital loans they get, pay their freshly graduated Ph.D. student (H1-Bs) a measly salary and pocket most of the grant money.
On top of that you are paying for these professors to be condescending towards you, for the administrators to not give a shit about you. Why? If you pay for a product or a service, shouldn't you demand a certain level of service? Not with Universities!
Good for you. But perhaps that's why there are so many startups? If I have no experience and can't get a job, I might as well start a company and get the experience myself.
That is assuming you have rich parents or can get VC funding.
Yeah and given the lackluster employment options to our college-bound or recent college graduates, it's no surprise that more are looking into CS where unemployment is still relatively low. Absolutely correct on H1-B and outsourcing too.
I was laid off 5 years ago and I saw a lot of citizens and greencard holders also get laid off. But not one single H1-B was laid off.
I would be more in favor of H1-B immigration if it allows the immigrants to be on the same playing field. But it's not. And for some perverted reason they actually have better job security than American workers.
I know a few H1-Bs who survived the recession, got to night school for MBAs, and are now program managers on the way up - hiring more H1-Bs from their home country and not hiring workers from other countries. If the H1-B system was not fundamentally broken we would have a more equal representation of immigrants from all over the world - Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, Ukraine, etc. But no, we have a monoculture, and while we are playing fair, they are not.
What's the difference between a data scientist and a statistician? A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco. Credit: https://www.quora.com/Data-Sci...
And in the process get themselves a nice bonus and a line on the resume for their next job.
It's so true and I wish I have gone to learn something else AND gotten a job doing that something else. Once an engineer, that's all people see when I apply for other jobs.
I wish it was that easy. Two teens grabbed my phone when I was waiting for a bus and smacked me in the head. I chased them down and eventually got bystanders to help. One of the bystanders took good pictures with his phone of both. After making a deal with them saying that I wouldn't call the cops but they just need to return my phone, they dithered looking around in the bushes and grass saying they couldn't find it. I gave up. I ended up sending those pictures to the police but no arrests or anything have been made. And I think it would be fairly easy work - send the pictures out to each school in the area and see if any one recognizes the teens. They can even do this in person if they were concerned about privacy.
Nope. The police are worthless. The only way to be safe is to understand that you are not and spot threats and avoid situations that could lead to danger and avoid them.
Great points. But in reality no job is safe unless you are born into the rich elite. Those blue collar jobs have already been taken by illegals. My friend wanted to go into landscaping but found that there were no jobs for him after he finished a 3 year master program. This is why the elite are in an endless grab for money because the middle class is disappearing and you really need to be born into a millionaire family to have a chance.
sorry, but over the course of a 30 year career, what you learned in college is going to be out of date, no matter what. Can't blame colleges for that.
They still do this today. A friend got an earful from another employee for driving to work in her Subaru.
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