Go to websites like/r/cscareerquestions on Reddit and see the salaries entry level engineers are getting at FB outta college. I have seen interns who got return offers get 110-120K$ base, 40K $ stocks, and at times anywhere from 15-50K$ as signing bonus, bringing up the comp to a total of 160K$+ each year. Compare this to Infosys that pays 65K$ and you can see the difference.
Unicorns are hard to find. But somehow we can always find them overseas;)
For these companies? Nope. The factor here is the interviewing process of SV companies.
Recently I was told to pick a date for Microsoft in September for my onsite interviews. I was told that the technical interviews would go all day and I had to give between 4-5 technical interviews, before and after lunch.
These interviews are hard and split into multiple stages right from 2-3 rounds of phone screens/online tests and then an entire day of onsite interviews. This eliminates most of the candidates, so they need more people to make the hiring numbers. Where do they get these numbers from after they're done interviewing Americans? H1B's.
Yes they started this in 2017, right after they and TCS were investigated by USCIS in 2016 for visa fraud. The should have been slammed hard but suspiciously at the same time the chairman of the group that owns TCS made a multi-million dollar donation to Carnegie Mellon(when the IIT's in his own country could use the money way more than a university with billions in endowment) and a few weeks after this all charges were dropped, stinks of lobbying and $$'s being thrown around.
Basically their asses were lit on fire after Trump got elected and they knew they had to change somewhat, hence Infosys began US hiring(they pay is okay not great tbh) and that very year the number of H1B's being filed got reduced by 40,000, some say they'll file for even lesser H1B's in 2018.
There is a slight bit of misinformation here. Most anti H1B people think all H1B's == the types working in sweatshops like Infosys. There are workers on that visa in places like Google,Facebook and many start-ups where :
1) The foreign worker has to pass multiple rounds of technical interviews just like an American hire. Whereas the interviews in H1B abuse sweatshops like Infosys are a complete joke.
2) The foreign worker in these places is paid 6 figure salaries which correspond to the highest bracket for entry level wages in tech in that area, the American worker at the entry level at these places gets the exact same pay.
For people like these H1B's make sense, for people like the ones at Infosys , no it doesn't. I saw your comment on the O-1 visa in this thread, and I'd like to say O-1's are very, very hard to get, and if we went by that then it be just very few people coming in to the US. What Trump seems to be doing is wanting to eliminate the Infosys types workers that are coming in droves on the H1B visa. The money these companies put in into lobbying is making it harder to make any reasonable changes to the program and these companies are responsible for things like Disney workers losing their jobs to H1B's.
There have been some positive changes recently like mass issues of RFE's to companies to prove to USCIS that the job indeed requires specialization and is paying top dollar, since most of the sweatshops type H1B's I see are paid 60000-65000$ compared to H1B's in top companies being paid 120,000-150,000$. A lot of the companies who are unable to pay top dollar have stopped hiring H1B's as result, since USCIS is demanding a lot of paperwork to approve or extend an H1B visa.
I talked to an Indian worker at a well known Silicon Valley company about this last month , he welcomed it saying "It's good for people like me because we are truly skilled workers and makes immigration easier for us, since companies that abuse H1B's have completely clogged up work based immigration in the US".
Japan is a shitty example. It's a country that had a national isolation policy for centuries, forbidding trade and contact with the foreign world. They want to keep their homogenous aspect of Japanese culture which is a leftover from their past and that's why immigration there is so darn hard.
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Go to websites like /r/cscareerquestions on Reddit and see the salaries entry level engineers are getting at FB outta college. I have seen interns who got return offers get 110-120K$ base, 40K $ stocks, and at times anywhere from 15-50K$ as signing bonus, bringing up the comp to a total of 160K$+ each year. Compare this to Infosys that pays 65K$ and you can see the difference.
Unicorns are hard to find. But somehow we can always find them overseas ;)
For these companies? Nope. The factor here is the interviewing process of SV companies. Recently I was told to pick a date for Microsoft in September for my onsite interviews. I was told that the technical interviews would go all day and I had to give between 4-5 technical interviews, before and after lunch. These interviews are hard and split into multiple stages right from 2-3 rounds of phone screens/online tests and then an entire day of onsite interviews. This eliminates most of the candidates, so they need more people to make the hiring numbers. Where do they get these numbers from after they're done interviewing Americans? H1B's.
Yes they started this in 2017, right after they and TCS were investigated by USCIS in 2016 for visa fraud. The should have been slammed hard but suspiciously at the same time the chairman of the group that owns TCS made a multi-million dollar donation to Carnegie Mellon(when the IIT's in his own country could use the money way more than a university with billions in endowment) and a few weeks after this all charges were dropped, stinks of lobbying and $$'s being thrown around. Basically their asses were lit on fire after Trump got elected and they knew they had to change somewhat, hence Infosys began US hiring(they pay is okay not great tbh) and that very year the number of H1B's being filed got reduced by 40,000, some say they'll file for even lesser H1B's in 2018.
There is a slight bit of misinformation here. Most anti H1B people think all H1B's == the types working in sweatshops like Infosys. There are workers on that visa in places like Google,Facebook and many start-ups where : 1) The foreign worker has to pass multiple rounds of technical interviews just like an American hire. Whereas the interviews in H1B abuse sweatshops like Infosys are a complete joke. 2) The foreign worker in these places is paid 6 figure salaries which correspond to the highest bracket for entry level wages in tech in that area, the American worker at the entry level at these places gets the exact same pay. For people like these H1B's make sense, for people like the ones at Infosys , no it doesn't. I saw your comment on the O-1 visa in this thread, and I'd like to say O-1's are very, very hard to get, and if we went by that then it be just very few people coming in to the US. What Trump seems to be doing is wanting to eliminate the Infosys types workers that are coming in droves on the H1B visa. The money these companies put in into lobbying is making it harder to make any reasonable changes to the program and these companies are responsible for things like Disney workers losing their jobs to H1B's. There have been some positive changes recently like mass issues of RFE's to companies to prove to USCIS that the job indeed requires specialization and is paying top dollar, since most of the sweatshops type H1B's I see are paid 60000-65000$ compared to H1B's in top companies being paid 120,000-150,000$. A lot of the companies who are unable to pay top dollar have stopped hiring H1B's as result, since USCIS is demanding a lot of paperwork to approve or extend an H1B visa. I talked to an Indian worker at a well known Silicon Valley company about this last month , he welcomed it saying "It's good for people like me because we are truly skilled workers and makes immigration easier for us, since companies that abuse H1B's have completely clogged up work based immigration in the US".
Japan is a shitty example. It's a country that had a national isolation policy for centuries, forbidding trade and contact with the foreign world. They want to keep their homogenous aspect of Japanese culture which is a leftover from their past and that's why immigration there is so darn hard.